Thread: Cruiser Gets $28,000 Cell Phone Bill!!!

From my past experiances ($568 later) I learned to keep my phone on airplane mode. I have an iPhone so I can use it as a iPod when in the gym.

Regarding the charges while in the port, it happens quite a bit in fact, in Oct., when I was on a RCL ship in Port Canaveral, my phone still read "Cellular at Sea," and I was sitting docked on disembarkation morning. It's just a matter of rebooting your phone cause its stuck on a certain band. The ship has a "tower" on board just like on land.

And iPhones are really bad since even when you are not placing calls they like to ping the system to check for things like mail, updates, and the like.

Doug, isn't the iPhone smart enough to search for the lowest cost connection?

Unless your cell phone has an international package you best turn it off. Some cell companies allow you to purchase an internatinal package for 30 days that allow you to control your rates. When we cruised Hawaii my black berry picked up the company satellite signal for the whole cruise we had no extra charges. Best tip keep it off or buy an international package especially when in Europe. We are looking into this now for our Nov cruise