I was originally a huge fan of travel pass. It save the long trip hours of meticulously buying a sim card for each phone, loading data in a foreign country and worrying about data size, along with having to communicate with others about my plans and new numbers. This of course came at a premium of around $140 for the two phones for a 1 week trip but was a fair trade for the convenience it offered.
This most recent trip, I discovered for the first time "The throttle" where data speeds were reduced from 4g to 2g (essentially useless) after the first 500mg. This had not occurred on previous plans essentially makes the phones useless when you do not have wifi access. The prices, of course, were not reduced to reflect the reduction in service quality.
Even before the data was throttled the 4T service in Ireland was not as good as we had experienced before. But essentially all the travel pass did was let us use calls and text from our home lines, but data was meaningfully limited to wifi only.
It is a shame Verizon took what had been a superb international option (if expensive) and ruined it.
