Roaming in St Lucia

[EAB25]

I had pretty much the same question, and the page for St Lucia doesn't actually give the costs for roaming...

https://ee.co.uk/help/mobile/roaming/roaming-costs/countries/stlucia

The EE website, however, indicated a daily charge of 'just' £6.74 a day

https://ee.co.uk/mobile/international/travel-data-pass 

This would see users facing a charge of nearly £100 for their 2-week holiday, whereas an airalo or similar E-SIM will allow 2gb data for £12 in a 15-day period. So you can use whatsapp/telegram to make calls using that data or hotel wifi, and have internet whilst out and about. 

So the answer to @Rhiannon2000 on costs is currently...

Data/internet
£6.54 per day (500mb cap) if you add the travel data pass to your account

Making a call
£2.52 per minute

Receiving a call
£2.52 per minute

Sending a text
82p per text

Sending a picture message
89p per picture message

Voicemail
To receive a voicemail you'll be charged at the receive a call per-minute rate above
To save a voicemail you'll be charged at the making a call per-minute rate above

My secondary question is about call forwarding. 

Another post from @XRaySpeX  says  "Receiving SMS texts is free worldwide. Switching Roaming Data OFF and diverting calls to VM will avoid roaming charges as long as you don't listen to them."

Are you charged if the phone rings, or if you answer it? In other words, can I leave my EE SIM active (with roaming turned off) so I can receive texts, such as OTPs if buying something, but if I don't answer a call or listen to a voicemail I wouldn't be charged?

[ee_user14]

Are you trying to question paying for incoming calls abroad? Or spend caps? You seem to be changing your mind now!

EE's spend cap restricts roaming charges as well.

[XRaySpeX]

You assumed wrong! Don't even see how you can assume it is part of US when it is a British Commonwealth country.

[XRaySpeX]

The OP wanted to know if a Spend Cap would restrict the charges of receiving calls abroad, not just that they are potentially chargeable. Unfortunately I can't answer that as the EE Spend Cap help page just says:

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What Spend Caps can control

A Spend Cap can restrict charges for

• Out-of-allowance calls, texts, and picture messages to standard UK and EU numbers,

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No mention of calls from anywhere! And it's nowhere else to be found.

I would guess that EE's intention was to include them in the above restriction list but failed to word it properly.