How to use iPhone 4S in Europe as an iPod... without Airplane Mode?

So this is actually for a friend who has an iPhone 4S and is going to Amsterdam this summer. She wants to bring her iPhone to use it for reading preloaded eBooks and listen to her music. Now she is TERRIFIED of incurring international data charges. She wants a foolproof method to disable it's service without using Airplane Mode. She is afraid she will be out drinking one night and accidentally turn Airplane Mode off or restart her phone and it's turned off as it powers up and as her apps update she goes bankrupt. She also still wants to be able to use WiFi when she is out there.
Now I was thinking she could replace her activated SIM card with an unactivated one from AT&T (her carrier). I am just concerned about a couple things.
First since the iPhone is activated will it freak out on her when she inserts this unactivated SIM card.
Second will she have to restore it before inserting the SIM card?
Third will she be able to connect it to iTunes to add music or perform a restore if something should happen to it out there?
Or if the SIM card trick is a no-go, what other ways are there to foolproof deactivate her phone?
Any help or ideas you could give me to pass along to her would be great. She was actually on her way to buy a new ipod and an ereader when she told me and I stopped her in her tracks. I had a European buddy come HERE and buy an unactivated iPhone and wanted to use it as an iPod and we did this SIM card trick but I don't know if it translates to Activated to Unactivated.

Just take out the sim card. If the iPhone is unlocked, she won't have to worry about charges.

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