Best Phone/data plan for snowbirds

macleadv wrote:
We will be travelling from the east coast of Canada to Florida and staying the month of april 2015. In 2013 we purchased a Tracfone Phone in Maine for our visit to Cape cod that year.

I have a few questions about these cellular phones.
1. Would it be better to purchase prepaid airtime and re-activiate our present Tracfone.
2. I plan to use it only while traveling to and from Florida, and with minimual useage while in Florida; so would I use Maine(Border crossing) or Florida(Condo) as my location referenced for re-activation?
3. Would I purchase a new tracphone at the nearest US Walmart (Calais ME)?
4. Would there be roaming fees from Maine to Florida and in Florida?
5. Can I call Canadad from Florida with normal long distanced charges?
6. Is there any other cellphones with plans better or equivant to the tracfone?

thanks

I don't think it matters what your area code (location) is as calls to any US or Canadian location (through the 800 number that you call for Canada) are metered by the minute (no roaming or LD charges). Assuming you can re-activate your old Tracfone it would be cheaper than buying another one. As posted above, buying a $99 card will keep the phone (and number) active for a year so you won't lose the number and if you don't use the minutes they will flow over to the next period when you renew again. Depends on whether you plan to do the US annually or not and what time you spend there.

For phone only service I think Tracfone is the best bang for the buck.I've never tried data on a tracfone