Wow - thanks SOOO much @Messybill!
I have been struggling with getting at least ONE roaming charge through Rogers on every trip, usually because we sent a text accidentally without switching the carrier, or I forgot to turn roaming off BEFORE taking off! Changing the setting to prevent automatic network connection should fix it!
We used to get physical SIMs, but too many friends couldn't wrap their heads around us having a foreign phone number, so last trip we got an Airalo SIM and it was great. We have travelled a lot to Mexico, so are already used to using WhatsApp, but I have never used it to call without our home SIM connected. We are 100% going to try this in a few weeks!
Now all I have to confirm is whether my Pixel 7 can have 3 eSIMs installed (but only 2 active) - as I can't find an eSIM that covers both countries we are going to (Maldives and Thailand), and we are using eSIMs for Rogers. I wasted almost an hour of my life chatting with Google "support" who never could wrap their head around the question. 🙄
