Talk:Germany/@comment-67.8.127.183-20170626210919

This article and the comments are so helpful -- many thanks to Wolfbin for responding to all the inquiries! We are going on a bike cruise on the Danube with a couple of days in Munich on either end. We have iPhone 6s phones and would like to get prepaid SIMs for them to handle calls and some data (map apps, Uber, airline and hotel apps). We will visit Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary during our trip and want to minimize roaming charges as much as we can.

It sounds like if we go to a Vodafone or O2 store when we arrive in Munich, buy and register SIMs at the store, we should be able to get what we need for a price that is not too outrageous, as long as we get a big enough plan to cover our anticipated use for the full time we are there since it may not be possible to top-up while we are on the cruise. Does that sound right? Anything I am missing? These phones are our old ones, and will not have any service on them until we get the German SIMS. We are traveling without our "normal" phones since we've heard that returning USA citizens (that's us) have been getting hassled by U.S. Customs to reveal browsing history and other private information on returning from international travel. The phones we take with us will not have any of that history on them, but that also means we have no means to communicate with our travel companions, etc., until we get the German SIMs (other than whatever wifi connectivity we find).

Any and all advice much appreciated especially since we will be traveling after 1 July, and it sounds like some rules are changing. Thank you!!