Boaty McBoat Charge
AVAST! A ship trip, a snooze in a cabin, an awakening to one text warning me about roaming and the other telling me I’d spent many £s roaming. A tale as old as time. What’s fun, and worthy maybe of a ‘conversation’ here, is that if you go on the EU roaming page here (available from your fav search engine) there’s nothing to suggest this. Furthermore, on speaking to an ID employee via medium of ‘chat’, the website he suggested here doesn’t tell you either, only mentioning that being on a boat might trigger a “you’re in a different country” text. Oh unless you go ‘roaming’ and then select cruise, yes! But readers, I wasn’t on a cruise. I was on a ferry crossing from the UK to a country covered by EU roaming, so I didn’t select this in the same way I wouldn’t have selected “What if I travel by submarine?”. So bravo one and all, for making this information entirely un-obvious to those of us who didn’t read our entire contracts end to end. Bravo iD, which I believe stands for “information D
