Cell phone service at Harborside?

[SNAvicki]

When I was there in 2005, our Sprint phones did not work. We brought walkie talkies, but they worked only so so.

What's this about a SIM card you buy? Any recommendations? We are a family of 4 Sprint phones!

Any walkie talkie experiences?

Thank you!

 

[clsmit]

Since you probably have new phones now , I'd call Sprint and see if you phones would work there, and if they can give you a short term plan to use them. I have on my to-do list (maybe tonight) to call AT&T to do the same thing. I know the DH wants to keep in touch with the MIL and FIL (and probably work, too) so we need at least 1 of our 3 phones to work -- and the blackberry, too....Altho my team at work has threatened to lock up my blackberry so I don't take it on vacation . I love my team!

 

[pointsjunkie]

we have verizon and our cell phones worked in the bahamas in may.

 

[Transit]

we have verizon and our cell phones worked in the bahamas in may.

Were there any special roaming fees or did you have to do anything special to your phone for it to work ?

 

[mariawolf]

Cingular//now ATT worked but way expensive--got charged for calls even when phone was off--would not bring it again!

 

[Stingrae]

When we were at Harborside last month we were told that cellular service was up to $5.00 a min. depending on your carrier. You may want to see if you can purchase phone cards at the casino. I was told that with the use of a phone card you will be a little over $2.00 a min. instead of $5.00. For calling the states I downloaded Skype, and was able to use my laptop to call home at a whopping $.21 a min.

 

[Ken555]

Read this previous discussion on this topic

And, I think you left off a digit re Skype calling rates... it's not $0.21 per minute, but $0.021...

 

[califgal]

We have Verizon. Last summer we were at Harborside, what ever I set up with Verizon before we left ended up being quite reasonable.

 

[SNAvicki]

Ken, thanks for the link to the other thread. I read it all and noticed you mentioned now Harborside has internet in both phases? I had been concerned it might not be avbl if we get Phase I (which we have requested) so I'm glad to hear it is throughout the resort! So, within the units themselves we will get wireless internet, like a hot spot? There's no hourly/daily charge from Harborside for it?

Any feedback w/ Sprint text msging? It's .20/min per msg, but would allow us to communicate between each other while there. Sprint however, says they cannot "guarantee the reliability" of sending/receiving txt msgs in the Bahamas.

Thanks for the info!

 

[Beaglemom3]

I have T Mobile and it worked, albeit, better when on the lanai.

B.