Unable to access the free wi-fi on Club sites

Kjell, the reason was that I could not get a definite answer as to whether you could activate abroad - even from '3' themselves.  This was also allied to the (supposed) widely discussed issue that you could only use a particular SIM for a maximum of 1 month (calender or 30 days??) in a 'feel-at-home' country.

You apparently been able to successfully activate a new SIM abroad. .....out of interest, which countries?

'3's policies and implementation seem to be obscure and variable. Maybe they vary according to which network you connect to abroad/what device you have/what tariff you are on ..............who knows!.

All our phone and data SIMs remained active for over 3 months in Spain.  We even had a dual-SIM smartphone and had both a phone and a data SIM installed, and both worked according to what we were using the phone for.  As soon as we got back to UK, the data SIM stopped working and we got a message from '3' saying phone set-up incorrect!!

I use a dongle with an Alfa R36 router. This works well in UK, but seemed very slow on the few occasions I tried it in Spain.....it seemed to be reverting to GPRS.  The data connection on the smartphone in contrast was excellent speed 3G in the same locations, but of course would not allow tethering (as '3' clearly state).