Hi all,
I'm travelling to France, Greece, Italy, Austria and Germany over a couple of months.
Just checking if there are any prepaid type options for phone and data that people can recommend?
Cheers!
Travelling to Europe - Sim card options?
Agent Q on 21/07/2017 - 13:18
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Better to enable roaming on your Australia sim if you need to be contactable while travelling and just have data disabled.
When booking accommodation make sure wifi is included.
We did without a travel-sim last two trips; had wifi in the hotels/bnbs and other public places which was more than enough while travelling. There are plenty of offline map applications for iPhone and Android to allow you to have GPS assisted navigation getting around town if that is something you wanted.
Hi mate, which offline maps app would you recommend?
How's "Here" maps for android?
I have always insisted on getting a SIM overseas to have access to online maps, would like to stop doing this and save some moeny next time :)
Two options,
Google Maps now supports offline caching so you can add the cities you want cached in Google Maps before you leave.
When I went few years ago this wasn't an option, believe I used the TripAdvisor App for each city last time.
You can download the free version of City Maps 2Go and upgrade it to the pro version for free at the moment. All you have to do is open the app after it is installed go to menu and under Redeem a Code enter CHIP.De
I do not know how good the maps are.if you have a telstra sim and the telstra air app i had that running it was picking up loads of hot spots (more than here actually)
You could also pick up mobile 4G in cities which was fairly cheap think it was about a 1$ a day unlimited, one of the hotels we stayed at offered it to us so we just utilised that from then on. you just had to recharge the small unit each night.
Google translate has a bunch of offline translation languages you download the language pack to suit. works on voice, text or camera.
use your phone to view the writing and it overlays the english translation. or vice versa when needed.
Thanks all.
Vodafone is usually safe as it is active pretty much in any country.
£ mobile uk has a great promotion if you travel around europe.Check it out!
we used vodafone in Italy. they have tourist plans. think i got 5gb data and 100 mins calls for 10 euro or something. you dont need call credit any way these days as you can make calls with whats up and viber with your data and it uses relatively nothing. thats what we did whole trip as we hired two cars and needed to call each other as you will get lost in traffic and use google maps to get around. always had reception from north to south italy becides some places in calabria when we were in a very rual and and mountainous area
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