Back from our Constellation Transatlantic!!!

<kpjeg@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Jean i enjoyed your report alot .Glad you had agreat time .
> Ken G............

Hi Ken,
Glad that you enjoyed the report...not very long but it was a long 17 days
away from home and we really felt the jet lag!
I better get around and make a report on the ports that we visited before my
memory fades! ;-)

--Jean

Kurt Ullman wrote:
> In article <3Lednbw2EIIhGqXbnZ2dnUVZ_v6tnZ2d@>,
> Ermalee <ehm369.@.comcast..net> wrote:
>
>>One thing that we failed to mention, our cell phones worked all the way
>>across the Atlantic, and they worked really well. They no longer had a
>>signal when in port, but once back at sea, they were fine. I have a
>>Verizon phone.
>
> Have you got the bill yet. At least according to Sprint, these are
> billed as International Roaming and aren't on the regular plan. I would
> be very interested to know what sticker shock (if any) is involved in
> this.

I got the sticker shock today online. $2.50/minute. I talked 41
minutes for around $102.05 Not too bad compared with the ship phone rates.

Ermalee

"Ermalee" <ehm369.@.comcast..net> wrote in message
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> Kurt Ullman wrote:
>> In article <3Lednbw2EIIhGqXbnZ2dnUVZ_v6tnZ2d@>,
>> Ermalee <ehm369.@.comcast..net> wrote:
>>
>>>One thing that we failed to mention, our cell phones worked all the way
>>>across the Atlantic, and they worked really well. They no longer had a
>>>signal when in port, but once back at sea, they were fine. I have a
>>>Verizon phone.
>>
>> Have you got the bill yet. At least according to Sprint, these are
>> billed as International Roaming and aren't on the regular plan. I would
>> be very interested to know what sticker shock (if any) is involved in
>> this.
>
> I got the sticker shock today online. $2.50/minute. I talked 41 minutes
> for around $102.05 Not too bad compared with the ship phone rates
> > Ermalee


Ermalee, I got our phone bill and my roaming charges were $20.55 for ten
minutes. The charge was $1.99 a minute... I made two calls and received one
while onboard the ship but made and received many text messages.. So
including the Int'l tax, $20.55 total was very reasonable! The reception
was excellent...as if the person to whom I was speaking was in the room with
me.
For calls that I made from Ireland and England, I used my Int'l calling
card...Bought the smallest denomination for 5 pounds and still have about 40
minutes left on it.

--Jean