Shopper3, Thank you for all the information you have provided me. When you install a Sim Card you get a new phone number until you remove the sim card, so thats a great idea for outgoing calls. The reason I need/want my phone handy is I like to know my children can reach me at anytime. I have decide...

Hi Sisiestlola, If you have a Canadian phone I don't beleive we can put a SIM card in our's. I had a friends from Scotland here & that is what he does, & we tried to put his in mine & it can't be done. I beleive I even called about it. Are you flying out of the states by chance???, That...

Hi Sisestalola, I am also from Ontario :lol: & agree that the costs for roaming are expensive. What I have done for the last 3 years is I purchased a US AT&T pay as you go phone, now I am not sure about the roaming charges, but the cost for phone & text msg is so cheap. A text is like ....

99.9999% of the time it will be a BVI tower and you are right, verrrry expensive :( A fun fact - I get a US tower when sitting at Soggy Dollar on Jost but a BVI tower when sitting on Cinnamon and sometimes Trunk on STJ - it's just the island way :lol: Pia, Thank you for your reply. Will I be able t...

I'm hoping someone can tell me, if I am sailing round the British Virgin Islands will my cell phone roam to a US tower or British? I am Canadian and if my phone roams to the US no problem but if it roams to a British tower whoa...it will be very expensive.

Thanks for any ideas or suggestions

Gromit I think it was Travellerspoint but I can't be sure as I've been surfing non stop for almost a week now. Its about -7 degrees celcius here today so the sailing trip is really starting to become inviting. Nine more sleeps! Yahoo Thanks girls, you're both so funny and honest..loved the pictures ...

Ladies, I just wanted to let you both know that I stumbled upon both of your trip reports on another site, and I enjoyed reading them SO much. Here's the thing, my friends have been begging me for over 20 years to sail the BVI's with them. Every year I disappoint my husband by saying no to their off...