Car rental + phone

[MICKEY'S DREAMERS]

Is it possible while renting a car to WDW (to be left at one of the drop off places around WDW), to rent also a mobile phone?
Which rental car companies give this service?
Thanks

 

[MICKEY'S DREAMERS]

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[GAIL HAYDEN]

check each company you have an interest in, they will list it as an optional service if it is available.

 

[ducklite]

In all honesty this is a VERY expensive add on. You might be better off $$ wise to buy a phone and get a prepaid plan. Verizon has excellent service throughout Central Florida. We had some problems with Sprint down there in the past, but it's possible they've imporved service since then.

Anne

 

[SnackyStacky]

Target had AT&T prepays on clearance the other week. Virgin Mobile also has really cheap prepay phones.

I would definitely say that's the best way to go.

 

[fran99999]

I used to use a prepay phone- Tracfone. I used it so much my parents deceided they wanted to use it. That was the last time I saw it except to help put more minutes on it You only had to buy minutes each month. They even called me from Montreal on it. Yes my heart skipped a beat when my daughter said "it's grandma hurry up she is on the cell phone" but she got so used to using it they needed me to purchase more minutes for them and they didnt have a pc handy. I aways bought min online. LOL

If you only need the phone for this one trip Id go with a prepay( not saying Tracfone) See which is least expensive. But look at websites for ALL prepay phones. They sometimes run big savings I got phone for free when I bought 90 MIn card. that was a $89 savings.

Sorry dont know about the car have always be delivered like a Pizza by Limo

Good luck

 

[NotUrsula]

I agree that renting a cell isn't worth it for an American. Foreign visitors sometimes get package price breaks on car rental + phone.

Be careful with roaming charges on some prepay services. Tracfone charges 4X the usual rate for roaming. Since Cingular bought AT&T, the AT&T phones are now Cingular, and Cingular's prepaid option is not a good one; they charge a fortune for roaming: $1.95 per minute, and you can get no incoming calls outside your home area. (You can setup the phone w/ Orlando as your home area, but then you'll end up paying roaming once you go home. You can change your home area, but there is a limit on how often.)

I've used several prepaid services, and have now settled w/ Virgin Mobile. They work (incl. incoming) in any large city and around all interstate highways, and there is no roaming charge. The price on the domestic service is flat no matter where you are, $.25/minute for the first 10 minutes you use in a given day, then $.10/minute thereafter for that day. Even DH has switched over, it's cheaper than the regular monthly service he used to have. You can set up an account w/ a CC so that your minutes are automatically topped up by a set amount every time you get low. You can keep one of these accounts alive for $80/yr. + the cost of the phone. (You can buy older Virgin phones for just about nothing on Ebay; these services are used mostly by kids, who want to have the coolest new phones when they come out, so they sell the old ones. All you have to do to re-activate the phone is call or go to the website and get a new number.)