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Alaska Cruise - International Roaming 10 Day Pass
Elderly parents are on an Alaskan cruise currently with 10 day International Roaming plan per the rep's recommendation. She told me that they would have data on the ship and Alaska and Canada with t...
You were given some really terrible advice. Cruise ships are horrifically expensive and on an Alaska Cruise the International Data Pass is a complete waste of money. Neither Alaska nor Canada are considered international roaming. This is why I recommend that Alaska cruisers turn off international roaming in their account settings.
gbk wrote:If I cancel International Roaming, parents should be able to use their normal Magenta Max plan in Alaska and Canada, correct? TIA!!
I have not done this personally but we hit on this solution for someone whose teen-age daughter was going on an Alaska cruise and he didn't want to get hit with huge bills for shipboard roaming. In the settings for your account profile there should be two toggles that affect international roaming 1) "Turn off charged roaming" 2) :"Turn off international roaming" #1 appears to only change data roaming and not voice and thus probably wouldn't prevent charges for voice calls. #2 turns off all "international" roaming, but Alaska, Canada and Mexico are considered domestic roaming. So, by activating #2, only shipboard roaming would be turned off. Of course, this would need to be reset before a trip to Europe, where you'd want access to the roaming.
Now, the cell service in that part of Alaska and Canada is thin on the ground, so the phones would have been useless 95% of the time, unless connected to the ship’s WiFi.
This is just my best effort. I'm not dumb enough to offer any personal guarantees.
