re: #235 iossarian

travel-wifi.com

They were awesome, btw. They deliver the package to your hotel - mine wasn’t there because the post office screwed up (I had the tracking confirmation so I know they posted it in time). They expedited me a replacement and discounted the day I didn’t have it.

I think they’re just in France but I imagine there are similar services elsewhere.

We had several people voice-skyping simultaneously. Would recommend.

Just as a follow-up to this - if you use this type of service you can put your phone in airplane mode but with wi-fi enabled. Then you basically get the advantage of your smart phone minus the worry of accidentally downloading some massive chunk of data and getting charged le $$$.