When you go to Jamaica, do you sign up for the international calling plan?
We have the Vonage mobile app but I can only find info about calling home, not making calls in Jamaica.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
When you go to Jamaica, do you sign up for the international calling plan?
We have the Vonage mobile app but I can only find info about calling home, not making calls in Jamaica.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
dorisw
2017 was our 15th trip to Negril. Other islands we visited: Cozumel, Mexico (4 times) St. Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, Aruba, Harbour Island, Bahamas, Anguilla, St. Maarten/St.Martin, Ambergris Caye, Belize (twice)
For us it was just easier to get transportation to and from Negril with a driver that offers a phone for your stay (Michael's On Time Taxi, among others). We put about $15 on the phone and called our grand daughter everyday for 2 weeks and never used up all the minutes.
Regards,
Bob
We just went to digicell and bought the cheapest phone they had which was about $30 and i think $10 for a sim card and then just put 200 ja worth of minutes at a time on it. Was great to have to contact friends and drivers when we were there and used it a few times to call home. Now all we have to do is buy a new sim card every year when we go and put some more time on it. Figured that was our cheapest option and we also didnt have to worry about bringing our expensive cell phones and worrying about loosing them or damaging them.
Originally Posted by Rumrunner
If you use Linston for transfers we'd be happy to lend you a phone
Cap
Last edited by captaind; 11-25-2016 at 02:04 PM.
Linston's Zion Hill Taxi
Captain Dave
Was in Jamaica last year with my Verizon iphone. We did what rjonsun aka Bob did, had our driver give us 2 phones for the week and bought minutes from Digi Cell.
Tried the VZW international plan when Donna was there last month so we could compare. Still more expensive than a cheap local phone or sim for our iPhones. Which reminds me, I need to top them off.
I used to buy a cheap digicel phone but find it easier just to text per messanger using wifi when I needed "kid time".....and if I felt the need to hear their voice, I just kept call to a couple of minutes and to tell them.."will you please answer your texts".......they're are 25 and 27.....lolol....
Cap, I didn't know about the loaner phone from Linston! We'll have to ask him about that next trip. Ha... Twice now we have brought my phone down and used the Verizon International plan. I try not to keep my phone on every day, because they will charge you $10.00 per 24 hour period once you turn the phone on. Turn it off... fine... but turn it on again and another 24 hour period starts. It's great as long as you don't need to turn your phone on everyday- or if you don't mind spending an extra 10 bucks a day to keep it on.
We take our Verizon iPhones down and use a local sim for one of them and turn data off for the other. The Verizon iPhones are international phones and it will always be cheaper to get a local sim compared to their international plan except perhaps in Canada where I think it's $2/day.
We're all in this together and none of us is getting out alive.
We are verizon customers and just use the international plan as it is $10/24 hours and it allows me to use my text/talk/data plan. We don't use every day so it only averages 40 per week. The nice thing is it reminds you when your 24 hours will be expiring and the next charge/24 hour period doesn't start until you use it again.
You can still use your phone with wifi just put in airplane mode
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