Taiwan

I am like you. I like to buy these prepaid sim cards wherever I go for a holiday. I was in Hong Kong recently and I bought the one2free HK$78 per week unlimited mobile broadband sim card. Works out to be only about S$13.

Usually, I end up buying separate sim cards for my teenage kids as well... given that the internet is much more important to them than to me! Actually, my main reason is to ensure that they do not get lost and I am able to contact them anytime.

When I reach the hotel room, I will then insert the SIM card into a portable wifi device so that I can surf the internet using my netbook and tablets. I will then hook up the netbook to the hotel TV to stream Starhub channels to the TV. I have both Slingbox and Vulkano at home and these will allow me to control and stream Starhub channels from my house. One acts as a backup! Yes, I even have a portable digital to analogue TV signal converter in case the hotel TV is an older one. This way, we feel very much at home anywhere in the world.