Cell Service In British Columbia

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Question: We're travelling to Whistler/Blackcomb for 10 days of skiing later this week. We have verizon as our carrier here in the US. What have others used as a means to get canadian cell service without paying roaming charges or exorbitant data costs? I've heard that verizon offers a 'mexico/canada' limited plan that is 15 bucks per phone for 30 days. Is this the preferred method? What have others used?
 
I use Verizon and had good coverage up there.
I called and added in the Canadian service charge before I went. Think it's the same as you noted at $15. I do think it had a limited amount of data so I'd suggest downloading map info before you go.
 
Question: We're travelling to Whistler/Blackcomb for 10 days of skiing later this week. We have verizon as our carrier here in the US. What have others used as a means to get canadian cell service without paying roaming charges or exorbitant data costs? I've heard that verizon offers a 'mexico/canada' limited plan that is 15 bucks per phone for 30 days. Is this the preferred method? What have others used?

I think the $15 USD per month roaming package outlined on the page below is your best bet (unless you talk a lot). Whatever you do, don’t leave home without a roaming package.

https://www.verizonwireless.com/solutions-and-services/international-travel/
 
I was in BC last year, but I have AT&T. I used one of their add-on options.

If you are worried about going over data limits, my phone (and probably yours) allows you to specify a warning limit and a hard limit on international roaming and international data.
 
We have T-Mobile and Canada, Mex and a few others are covered at no extra. I have great coverage in Toronto & Vancouver if that helps.
 
Yes, we're zeroing in on the $15 per phone option, seems like the best option. It offers something like 100 minutes of talk, 100 texts, and 100MB data. We certainly don't intend on using more than the allotment of talk or text, so keeping the data under 100MB will be the biggest challenge.
I think if we use the hotel and mid mountain lodge wifi, we can stay under the 100MB data cap.

PS: GravitySucks - good call on downloading map data before we go.
 
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