97% of the French territory is covered with 4G (with stronger or lesser strong signal...)70% of the French territory is covered with 5G (mostly in bigger cities)

Data & Phone

Q: How much Data will I use while traveling ?

GPS & Keep in Touch useOn average, our travelers use about 50MB/day for GPS & keep in touch with home.For a 2 week trip, plan on using about 1GB for GPS & keeping in touch. Watch Movie or Send lots of PicturesIf you like to watch a movie or serie at night, we warmly recommend connecting to your accommodation wifi to do so.If you send lots of pictures home or upload them on your drive, we also warmly recommend doing so while connected to a wifi (not using your phone data).

You are wondering how to organize to use your smartphone while in France...here are some information for you

#1 : Get an International Plan from your home provided : the best solution

This is from far the best solution. Contact your phone provided at home and check their International plans including Europe/France.

It usually costs about $10-15 a day and this is worth it for using the GPS on your smartphone (Waze, Google Maps, etc)
On average, our travelers use about 50MB/day (for GPS & keep in touch with home). For a 2 week trip, plan on using about 1GB for this type of use.

#2 : Buy a Prepaid Sim Card

You may buy a prepaid French sim card either at the airport or even from home on Amazon.

You may check the prepaid sim cards from "Bouygues" or "Orange" phone operators.

Be careful:

Your phone needs to be unlocked to European sim cards.
Make sure that the duration of the prepaid card covers your trip (some are 2 weeks and others 1 month - after first use)

Wifi in France ?

Free Wifi is accessible in all accommodations.

Also, more and more restaurants, museums, public places have free wifi.

The Wifi quality is better in bigger towns and slower in the countryside. However, this tends to change as all the French territory is getting equipped with fibre-optic network.

How much Data will I use while traveling ?

GPS & Keep in Touch use

On average, our travelers use about 50MB/day for GPS & keep in touch with home.

For a 2 week trip, plan on using about 1GB for GPS & keeping in touch.

Watch Movie or Send lots of Pictures

If you like to watch a movie or serie at night, we warmly recommend connecting to your accommodation wifi to do so.

If you send lots of pictures home or upload them on your drive, we also warmly recommend doing so while connected to a wifi (not using your phone data).

4G & 5G

97% of the French territory is covered with 4G (with stronger or lesser strong signal...)
70% of the French territory is covered with 5G (mostly in bigger cities)

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There are not enough superlatives for our experience with Emilie. Prompt correspondence and thorough questions led to the perfect vacation for my family. Her choice of hotels in Paris and Provence were exactly what I would have chosen on my own. Her tour guide recommendations were spot on. The fact that she arranged all of our transfers, train …

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Our trip was arranged and detailed well in advance, with reservations for activities and places of special interest, and free days with suggestions for things to see and do. We fell in love with Dordogne and the Paleolithic caves for which we had reserved tours, and were able to take in another cave the next day at the suggestion of our B&B hostess …

Judy

This was one of the best trips we have taken to Europe. We have often done our own planning. It was so nice to have Laura help. We were very delighted with accommodations and friendliness of all our hosts and tour guides. As Americans that don't speak much French, we would never have been able to arrange a trip like this ourselves - and we've done …