Using your Smartphone to make your trip easier
Traveling with your smartphone allows you to save your pictures and share them with family, keep in touch with home, and have access to great traveling Apps.
To Use your phone without surprise roaming fees :
- Procure an International plan with your telephone service provider - this is the best option - plan for 50MB of data per day
- or buy a prepaid SIM card upon arrival in France - your phone must be unlocked for European SIM cards for this
Laura & Emilie will walk you through finding the best option for you
Laura & Emilie will provide how tos for the most used travel apps:
- Laura & Emilie will provide explanations and short videos : easy & user friendly
- We recommend you start using WAZE (or Google Maps) GPS at home before the trip as this is the best navigation tool in France
GET FAMILIAR WITH OUR list of free RECOMMENDED APPS:
This is a list of applications we find very useful while traveling. Based on the type of "app user" you are, we will glady make a short-list which fits YOUR needs.
The Best FREE GPS in France
- Waze: if you use only 1 App, this is THE App to get for your French trip
- Google Maps
Great Tools for your trip
- Citymapper
- Gas Now
- Google Translate
- The Fork
- Tiqets (last minute tickets)
- Uber
- The French Weather Forecast : France Weather app
- XE currency converter
- Flush: to find the nearest public restrooms
- TouchNote: to mail real postcards from your cellphone - about $3 a postcard - it takes about 5 working days to be delivered
Keep in touch
- Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo
- Skype
- Viber
This way, you can use you own smartphone in France, the same way you use it at home !