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Travel advice: Seattle fun stuff and Disposable Cell Phones
SwashbucklerXX
Swashbucklin' CanuckRegistered User regular
Swashbucklin' CanuckRegistered User regular
So my folks live in Bellingham, WA and my husband and I are flying out there in February to go to the Olympics and do some touristy stuff. We're super excited about the Olympics, but we'd also like to visit Seattle. I hear Seattle is a great place for nerds like us, so I was looking for suggestions on where to go during a day trip there. Any neighbourhoods with a good concentration of geeky stuff (game stores, funky book stores, comic stores, arcades, etc.)? Specific stores that might be fun for us to visit? Really awesome restaurants within spitting distance of aforementioned game stores?
Also, we don't have our own cell phones, but it'd probably be nice to have a temporary one for the trip. We're Canadian and there is no way in hell we're paying Canadian prices for a temporary cell, and the world of cell phones is a mystery to me. Here's what we're doing: we're driving from Toronto to Buffalo to fly from Buffalo-Seattle. It'd be great to be able to pick up a phone in Buffalo and be able to use it there as well as in Washington without paying ridiculous roaming charges... is that realistic for temporary/disposable cell phones? Are there any companies that let you essentially "rent" a phone so that we can be at least marginally ecological and know that the phone doesn't exist just for our trip? Help!
Also, we don't have our own cell phones, but it'd probably be nice to have a temporary one for the trip. We're Canadian and there is no way in hell we're paying Canadian prices for a temporary cell, and the world of cell phones is a mystery to me. Here's what we're doing: we're driving from Toronto to Buffalo to fly from Buffalo-Seattle. It'd be great to be able to pick up a phone in Buffalo and be able to use it there as well as in Washington without paying ridiculous roaming charges... is that realistic for temporary/disposable cell phones? Are there any companies that let you essentially "rent" a phone so that we can be at least marginally ecological and know that the phone doesn't exist just for our trip? Help!
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they actually just opened one of those in the u-district as well, between the two stores i already mentioned.
Who's your provider?
A GSM phone is easy to come by, easier to unlock, and easiest and cheapest to drop a AT&T SIM card in and get good service for super cheap.
Also, funny, I'm pretty much exactly switching places with you for that two weeks. I'm going to Windsor, woo!
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
http://www.amazon.com/TracFone-Prepaid-Cell-Phone-Black-2fSilver/dp/B00280ISZO
the cheapest phone is around $15 but sometimes you can get an even cheaper refurbished one.