. Wow, every place has been amazing.
Same assessment here what's an experience - I took > 6000 photos and few hours videos, still very excite to watch the videos and look at the photos.
. Wow, every place has been amazing.
Does that have a time limit on it? The Simcorner card I bought had a 30 day limit. Does TIM work all over Europe?
Where in Italy are you? We are currently in Lucca after visiting Rome, Siena, San Gimignano (day trip) and Florence. Wow, every place has been amazing. France is next then 3 nights in Switzerland, then Austria then Germany then NYC via a cruise from Hamburg. We get home July 4th.
Same assessment here what's an experience - I took > 6000 photos and few hours videos, still very excite to watch the videos and look at the photos.
Very nice pic!
Use a tripod?
Man I kept putting off taking night photos of Paris for so long. Now Notre Dame probably won’t be lit up at night time for years.
Is buying a card locally the best way to go? I see prepaid sim cards from Amazon that work in most/all European countries, and all I care about is Iceland. Am I better off with a local company SIM to avoid roaming?
I'm also weighing that vs. a mobile hotspot for $9/day. My phone is unlocked but my son's is not. But I can just set up a wifi hotspot with my phone for him to use. Assuming I can still do that with the new SIM card.
Coming back in July for Tuscany, maybe Umbria, finishing up in Venice.
I quit trying until today in Lucca. It worked all day today. .
It didn't work in Rome
Hopefully this is the most recent 'European SIM' thread!Well this is weird, my Simcorner card is now working and it is fast. It didn't work in Rome or early on in Siena then I quit trying until today in Lucca. It worked all day today. I think I still have two weeks on it.
Thanks for the opportunity to learn more...I checked out that fandom for Greece. Lots of info there. If you have the ability to interpret, does anything stand-out there to you?For your trip, I'd look at the first country where you'll be staying, see what the options are there.
I thought the days of screwing with SIMs when traveling were over. They are over for us with Project Fi (200+ countries)
Project Fi is especially nice for us because they give us free data-only SIMs for our tablets, so no need to set up a phone as a hot spot.
One could even buy a Nexus 5X phone on CraigsList, sign up for Project FI during the trip, then cancel and sell the phone afterwards.
Project Fi is $10 a gigabyte?
You can do A LOT better.
And there's no messing around with SIM. You pop the SIM tray open, you put in new SIM and it just works.
You might have to enter the APN settings but otherwise ...
Now devices have eSIMs but the offers on those are not as competitive yet.
Maybe that will change.
I doubt it. The rate is $10/Gig and we pay only for what we use. Some months here at home our data billing is less than a dollar. Traveling, it rarely exceeds $20. Except when driving, we almost always have WiFi, even outside the US. So no data charges most of the time.Project Fi is $10 a gigabyte?
You can do A LOT better. ...
I understand how to change SIMs, but when we get to a new country we do ... (wait for it!) ... nothing. No finding and buying a SIM card, no change of telephone numbers. Fi is also handy for short stops, like making a call from the transit lounge in Seoul. I suppose that if you are going to just one country with no intermediate stops you could be happy with buying one SIM card, but I can't remember a trip like that except driving in Canada a few years ago. That was in the Bad Old Days and I did have to find and buy a SIM card.And there's no messing around with SIM. You pop the SIM tray open, you put in new SIM and it just works.
You might have to enter the APN settings but otherwise ...
No surprise really. Dealing with 200 countries and many more cell carriers I think it's unrealistic to expect perfection. Even in the US we run into areas where coverage is weak or nonexistent. Life's a tradeoff. I would rather travel with a high probability of having no-hassle cell service than travel knowing that I have to chase down and buy a SIM card in every country we visit. In May we did Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria with transit at Schiphol. Six cards ?!!? No thanks. Sorry to hear about your hassle, though.Not so fast.
We thought that our days of screwing with local SIMs and calling plans outside the U.S. were over as we are also with Google Fi. That depends. On arrival in Guatemala 4 days ago, DW's phone (Google Fi) said: "Welcome to Guatemala,we've got you covered" ...