If you’re travelling to the UK or Europe, you’ll want to make sure that you can use your cell phone as soon as you land.

If you want to use your cell phone with a different network SIM card, you’ll need to get it network unlocked. For example, if you want to use a UK SIM card (rather than paying expensive international roaming costs) your cell phone needs to be network unlocked.

In this post we’ll explain how to go about getting your cell phone network unlocked, how to check if it’s already unlocked and what you can then do once your phone is unlocked.

If you’ve just dropped a truckload of cash on your flights to the UK, you’ll be wanting to find some more cost effective ways to travel to other parts of Europe. In this post we’ll give you a few hints and tips to help you get the most from your hard earned cash on your trip to the UK and Europe.

Budget airlines

Long gone are the days of boring bland English food. Once upon a time, the best you could get was Fish & Chips. But today, London offers a massive range of food offerings, from top Michelin star restaurants, to an amazing range of ethnic food (think fresh felafel or burritos) and everything in between. And of course, you can still get a good ol’ English pub meal of fish and chips or sausages and mashed potato.

Michelin star restaurant dining on a budget

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Updated January 2021

So you’ve booked your flights and hotels, you’ve created a list of the “must see” tourist attractions in London and you’ve downloaded the best UK travel apps to your cell phone. But will your cell phone work in the United Kingdom?

If you’ve been doing research online about whether your cell phone will work in the UK, we’re guessing you’re probably confused by now, right? There’s lots of conflicting information and it seems very complicated.

Depending on where you’re from in the USA, a reliable and expansive public transport system might be something you’ve never experienced. On your trip to London, here’s some hints and tips for becoming a pro using the London public transport system.

Book your hotel or Airbnb close to a tube station

The London Underground is the high frequency metro train system servicing the Greater London area. The closest comparison is the New York subway. It’s nicknamed “the Tube” because of the design of the train carriages and tunnels. It was opened in 1867 and carries 1.34 billion passengers each year, with a total track length of 250 miles.

Advancements in the technology sector have come with a lot of changes. The latest innovations in technology have greatly benefited the mobile phone industry. One of these advantages is the development of Subscriber Identity Module or SIM. It is a portable memory chip that is used in cell phones to store information.

SIM cards are designed to make it easy for a mobile user to switch to a new phone but keep the information from the previously used phone. Some SIM cards can store all the vital information about the phone and card owner. It can keep phone numbers, text messages and other relevant data. Transferring the data from one phone to another is simple. It’s just sliding the SIM card out of the old phone into the new phone.