My son is travelling to Italy with school in a couple of weeks. Looking for recommendations regarding cell phone use? They have been asked not to buy SIM cards there as they won't have time.

Sandra Deuchar
Pretend it is the 80s and leave the phone at home or at least in Airport mode. Use face messaging in wifi zones only

They have to be able to contact teachers/chaperones so they need to have their phones

If that's the case Yvonne Wylie MacDonald, the school administration will give clear instructions.

I did roam like home with rogers, $10 a day to a max of $100 over 30 days.

I bought Wind Mobile SIM for iPhone for 25 Euro that came with 4 gig data and a ton of calling and texting minutes! It was great for a week in Italy. And they have stores everywhere

We put a data block on my sons phone before he went to Italy. He could then only use data while on wifi at the hotels. We then put a calling package through Telus on his phone.

I am a Telus customer and use the 50 dollar for one month package. Phone is on airplane mode except for the short time I use minutes to phone home from Europe or text someone. They have another plan too for daily use. The trick is to leave phone in airplane mode almost all the time.

If you are going to get an overseas SIM card make sure that the phones they will be using are unlocked. Check woth your service provider for international packages too and where possible have your kids use WiFi instead of data.

I have a Europe sim that you can have. The plan I purchased has expired but the sim is active I believe till November. You would just need to use a cc to add a amount of data to it. I used it in august

There is wifi pretty much every where in Europe so he should be able to get away without data. He just needs to keep his phone on airplane and then turn wifi on, that way he's not roaming. My sister lived in Norway for a year and never had data and managed just fine

The past 2 summers I preordered SIM cards from prepaidzero.com. They have multiple options (data only, calling and data, etc). Ortherwise roam like home is not a bad plan.

Most places have wifi. We are with Telus and they have a travel deal where you are charged $10 per day only if you use your phone (take it off airplane mode) and then you use it just as you would at home. We were gone 2 weeks and used the option twice. Facebook has a calling option on messenger that he can use with wifi

My son went a few years ago and just made contact when they had wifi. That's all we needed to get by for the two weeks that he was away.

I was in Italy in the spring. I got the Rogers Roam Like Home plan AND kept my phone on airplane mode 99% of the time.

You can call through Messenger. What's App also works. But make sure he only uses wifi.

Roger's roam like home. I've used it for travel in the States. It's great

Another option if you are going to keep it on airplane mode both of you download what’s app

If you are thru bell they have a great international plan. Call your cell provider.

We did the international roam plan with Bell...think 10 bucks a day. Or just use an app like FB messenger with wifi only

He should keep his phone on airplane mode and use wifi. With that and whatsapp, you can text, send voice messages, make phone and video calls and it's free!

I used international Plan with Telus for 30 days

What's app!

Thanks for all the info!

Order it a head of time or see if travel agents sell them

I got a phone package from bell

International calling card.