Holiday Park Broadband

I suspect that this has been covered before, but new to this forum, a bit/lot of a technology dummy (ie. I'm old) Apologies for the long winded post

For the past 5 years or so, as my young son has got older, we've been spending an ever increasing amount of the year living on a non-residential holiday park that is in the same postcode as our home.

Year-on-year I've got BT to transfer our home phone number at the start of the season (March) and back to our home at the end of the season (October) - (This first step usually takes weeks as BT {year-on-year} insist that I need a line installing at the holiday park and send someone from Open Reach who starts digging up the existing cable and then scratches their head and concedes we already have a line....

This year I didn't bother transferring the line because of all the hassle and to top that.. as we are very rarely home in summer I didn't bother renewing my (at home) broadband subscription, intending to shop around in a few months.

Now, I've just found out that my son's school is piloting an internet based homework system and I urgently need broadband. Just about to buy a laptop to replace my creaking 5 year old desktop and looking round for a bundled deal with internet access.

My question is Do I need to get a phone installed at the holiday park to use broadband

NB.
This has just been complicated further by my missus recently agreeing to an offer of reduced phone bills if we stay with BT for about the next 12 months.

Hi Mate

Personally I'd go for the cheapest and easiest option out there.... as your not heavy users and spend most of your time between two locations.

Has the holiday park not got WI-FI? A lot of them do these days, you'll just end up paying them for a slot of access and they change the password every now and again, that would be OK for your laptop!

I'm a little confused about your lines, you have 1 BT at home? and one in the holiday park that you repeatedly re-activate or...?

Instead of transferring your number from location to location, setup a call divert on the first line, to the second line, but make sure you find someone that will do you unlimited calls, most divert features charge your line 1 for the call to line 2!

If you need broadband in the Holiday park, then you need either a BT line or an Opal line, then just add broadband to it! You don't need an actual phone for the broadband to work, just a pc/laptop :-)

I'm with Opal because i think BT are rip-off merchants - 0800 542 5845 - Opal sales, Just call them and ask them what they could do for you!

Cheers I'll look into that

Doubt there's WiFi the holiday "park" is out in the wilds
50 meters to a beach that I've never seen more than 5 people on and 6 miles to the nearest set of traffic lights


On the line I should say I get my phone "number" transferred from house to holiday park.. there's no charge if your in the same post code