Disney Cruises are absolutely wonderful. I like cruises but after going on one of those, nothing else has measured up.
Hey, I figured somebody in here would know. Who has the best travel experience between Qantas and Cathay Pacific? Especially if it’s first class.
Cathay Pacific. The Asian airlines are far superior in almost every respect.
Cathay Pacific!! Not even close. It is probably at the top of my list and I have flown a lot of different carriers.
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Thanks, both. I figured as much. I can use my frequent flyer miles to get over to Australia on both so this will help me book the right routes.
AT&T’s ever changing international plan has - I hope - landed on its best solution. You can now opt in to their international roaming service, which kicks in automatically whenever you connect to a service overseas. They charge you $10 for each day that you ping a foreign cell service, up to a maximum of $70 per billing period. This gives you unlimited calls/texts and access to your existing data plan.
I was recently in England, and I used this. It’s seamless - you just use your phone as normal - and there were times when my cell data speeds were better than the coffee shop WiFi. I was nervous that I’d missed something in the small print, but I just got my bill and they charged me $60 for the 6 days I was in England. Sweet!
They’ve had this for years now. How did you not know this?
It wasn’t available last November when I went to London. It was a different plan where you were charged for usage and data had a unworkably low cap on it, after which they started taking arms and legs.
I’ve been using since at least 2017. Of course, AT&T loves me and hates everyone else.
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Or, and hear me out, you can use T-Mobile and all that shit’s free.
I’m in Mexico City right now and it’s chingón, wey, está muy padre.
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Oh, and now they include calls and texts whereas those used to be an additional charge.
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I didn’t realize it at the time, but T-Mobile devouring Sprint was a real nice thing for me.
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When I was in Panama full time I got tired of paying $100 a month or whatever it was for some shit I never used so I invited myself onto my mother and brother’s family plan not knowing what an upgrade T-Mobile would be in every way.
Yeah, usually when your provider of whatever gets bought you probably shouldn’t expect things to improve. Sometimes though you get a nice surprise.
I dropped my phone the other day and manage to create spiderwebs of cracks on both the front and back, so now I need a new phone. That would make this an opportune moment to consider a new provider.
I’m also going to be moving soon, and I am not happy at the prospect of losing my gigabit internet connection and get stuck paying through the nose to Comcast for data caps and 5mbps upload speeds.
T-Mobile’s 5G service may be the only alternative to Comcast, so it’s probably worth checking out their cell phone offerings. But…T-Mobile customers…do they still merit the shitty rep they worked so hard to earn early on?
I think I’ve mentioned that I have their 5G home wifi service and for me who’s online all day every day messing with the market and watching streaming sports while my wife watches Korean dramas on Netflix and my son watches airline disaster videos on Youtube the service maybe doesn’t rate an A+ but certainly a solid A. And at $50 a month if it’s available wherever one is, I’m not sure how you can beat it unless you’re on one of those crazy fiber networks.
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Currently have fiber, but that goes bye bye when I move.
I use Citrix for work and, because that’s pushing data up as well as pulling it down, the slowdowns are almost all called by a poor upload speed. Right now I can push data up at 1,000mbps, while cable internet limits you to 5.
I have no idea what my upload speeds are. I’ll check next time I think about it, although in my experience they vary wildly and are largely apocryphal.
I have done some of my own research and it seems that speeds either way can vary wildly, but 100 down and 40 up is kinda the minimum one can expect. That should be totally workable, especially for $50/month.
AT&T is “free” in all of North America, including the US, Canada, and Mexico. As in they are not considered “international”, so you don’t pay the additional $10/day if you’re in Mexico City.
Me too.