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M4RKM

malkie76 wrote: »

The orange pay as you go prebooked daily rate advertised on their website is far better than you've highlighted in your original post. Possibly you need to be logged in as a customer to see it - I'm not sure.

According to the EE webpage, there are no bundles for PAYG Orange Roaming in the USA, and you pay £8 per MB. You've not said what the daily rate is.

For a longer or regular term visitor to the USA, a US Sim is probably the best. Something like T-Mobile USA do a prepaid plan for $3 per day that gives 200MB data a day..

malkie76 wrote: »

I totally agree, and my opening post on the matter suggested using an offline map app rather than use any data. I followed that up saying you can get pretty cheap data bundles if you book in advance with your provider; another user disagreed, but then provided a list of poor value data packages.

My suggestions are for a casual tourist who may want a little Facebook or ability to iMessage/WhatsApp overseas which could potentially save them a lot of money vs traditional SMS charges.

How can £15 for 1 month of unlimited internet POOR VALUE? Just because you say you can get better, and still haven't posted evidence, doesn't mean that everyone can.

I don't mind transcribing what I find onto an online spreadsheet, and let people collaborate so we can have up to date information either, but telling me you can find cheaper and not saying what it is isn't helping the wider community.

Me, I'm fine, I'm with Three, I've also got an AT&T SIM for local calls, and I'm trialing a telaway sim (more when I come back), for another option for travellers.

pompeyrich

malkie76 wrote: »

I totally agree, and my opening post on the matter suggested using an offline map app rather than use any data. I followed that up saying you can get pretty cheap data bundles if you book in advance with your provider; another user disagreed, but then provided a list of poor value data packages.

My suggestions are for a casual tourist who may want a little Facebook or ability to iMessage/WhatsApp overseas which could potentially save them a lot of money vs traditional SMS charges.

Ok sorry then, all I could see was you telling us there were better deals than the 3 deal shown by M4RKM but didn't actually see your recommendation.

A maximum of £15 for calls texts and data in the USA seems reasonable to me, when compared to my own contract at £1.50 a min to make or receive calls, 40p a text and pre-paid data bundles starting at £5.

LadyL2013

LadyL2013 wrote: »

She asked me to send over the screengrab of the quote, which I did. It clearly says that taxes and fees are included in that quote. They haven't specifically said they will match it in £'s, so should they come back and say they'll match it in dollars I'll check to make sure we are paying the same.

Have also asked what extra we would need to pay for upgrades etc. As I understand it the week we are going is one of the hardest weeks to sell, so maybe that's why we are getting a good deal. I almost feel like it's too good and a spanner is going to get thrown in the works.

As an update...

They have gotten back to me to say they are currently investigating as they say they do not have any partnership with Hotels4U and haven't given them permission to sell their hotel rooms.

They have asked me for my patience whilst they investigate....

I knew this seemed too good to be true:(

bb69

LadyL2013 wrote: »

As an update...

They have gotten back to me to say they are currently investigating as they say they do not have any partnership with Hotels4U and haven't given them permission to sell their hotel rooms.

They have asked me for my patience whilst they investigate....

I knew this seemed too good to be true:(

Hmmmm thats interesting. Good job you didn't book directly.
Ok... happily help you find a back up. Have you booked your flights? What are your dates?

Don't worry it will all get sorted

LadyL2013

No not yet, we wanted to secure the hotel before we booked flights.

26th - 31st March we're aiming for. If the Smyth didn't work out we were looking at the Affinia Dumont.

I'm still hoping that the Smyth works out but it's looking doubtful.

bb69

LadyL2013 wrote: »

No not yet, we wanted to secure the hotel before we booked flights.

26th - 31st March we're aiming for. If the Smyth didn't work out we were looking at the Affinia Dumont.

I'm still hoping that the Smyth works out but it's looking doubtful.

Ah ok. I'll keep an eye out for you.
Affinia Dumont is also very nice especially with the Kitchenette and in a great location.

Let us know how you get on

malkie76

M4RKM wrote: »

According to the EE webpage, there are no bundles for PAYG Orange Roaming in the USA, and you pay £8 per MB. You've not said what the daily rate is.

For a longer or regular term visitor to the USA, a US Sim is probably the best. Something like T-Mobile USA do a prepaid plan for $3 per day that gives 200MB data a day..



How can £15 for 1 month of unlimited internet POOR VALUE? Just because you say you can get better, and still haven't posted evidence, doesn't mean that everyone can.

I don't mind transcribing what I find onto an online spreadsheet, and let people collaborate so we can have up to date information either, but telling me you can find cheaper and not saying what it is isn't helping the wider community.

Me, I'm fine, I'm with Three, I've also got an AT&T SIM for local calls, and I'm trialing a telaway sim (more when I come back), for another option for travellers.

Logged into my orange account I'm offered £1 a day for 30Mb. Slightly more if you want 150Mb or 300Mb. I'm not a business user. You only pay on days you use.

£15 would be poor value as the majority of people aren't overseas for 15 days.

M4RKM

malkie76 wrote: »

Logged into my orange account I'm offered £1 a day for 30Mb. Slightly more if you want 150Mb or 300Mb. I'm not a business user. You only pay on days you use.

£15 would be poor value as the majority of people aren't overseas for 15 days.

30mb per day for £1 isn't advertised on their website at all, which is why I never mentioned it. The options that are advertised now are 100mb daily / 150mb monthly / 500mb monthly. Bizarre.

I'll drop them a tweet and see if they offer alternative plans that are not advertised.

Though, limiting to 30mb per day is a very small amount of data, whereas that £15 covers up to 25gb of data, 300 mins to uk landlines and mobiles and texts, so there is a bit of a difference. You can continue to use the sim in the uk too...

M

malkie76

Then pay a little more for the 150Mb
Odd that it's only visible to logged in customers, but phone companies are often guilty of offering too many plans and options rather than keeping things simple.

Each to their own over what works best for them, but my original point that your list wasn't comprehensive stands, and should have perhaps came with that disclaimer in case people coming here for advice are misled.

M4RKM

Aha yes.

Pay £75 for 150mb instead of using a different provider. Perfect sense.

I knocked up that table when waiting for a bus and never said it was comprehensive. It isn't. It's obviously not as it's only covering the major network and not all payg phones. That's obvious to all I thought.

People want simplicity and don't want bill shock. People are learning that data is expensive, and there is an option out there that is a fixed cost and it can't go up.

Having a plan for £15 with data, text and minutes sure beats anything out there in the market place.

Let's take a 5 day trip and use your option. We've got £10 cheaper if one were to use data only.

Let's look at sending 2 texts per day, at 40p a text, that's another £4 so the three deal is now only £1 more expensive.

Make a 1 minute phone call and suddenly three is 0.10p cheaper. Yeah, we can complicate things and get a package, but that costs £5.10p for some reduction in per minute costs. Again, just the stuff on the website.

I'm not giving advice, I'm giving an opinion. It's complex out there..

M