Iam traveling from the US and meeting up with a group of people from India in October 2014 at Rome, we will be in Italy for a few days and go on to a bunch of other places in Europe (France, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain and Bosnia).
My flight lands at 10:00 AM, the people I meet with come at around 1:30 PM the same day. Since there are no places to get a local SIM at the airport, will I be able to go the Termini and get a SIM and come back to the airport on time and meet my group or is there any other alternative.
Posted by
Watertown, MA
118 posts
The TIM store at the airport is located in the secured area of Terminal 1. I don't think you can access that area unless you have a ticket departing from Terminal 1.
to amalraji
rather expensive trip just to get a SIM card. Once the rest of your group arrives, are you all traveling into Rome? Perhaps wait and buy once in Rome?
Posted by
OP
4 posts
Thanks for the replies, I will be going with my group to Rome. In reading the forums and other sites I have found that people at the Airport and at the Termini are better with english than inside the city. Hence my goal to complete buying the SIM at those places.
Posted by
San Francisco Bay Area (USA)
16592 posts
Not sure you can go to the store inside the airport. They are at the T1, I think past security.
if you can't, instead of going all the way to Termini, just take the FR1 Regional train (not the Leonardo Express). Get off at the very next station after the airport (Parco Leonardo), a 5 min. ride. Exit the station and there is a Shopping center right in front of you. It's called: http://parcoleonardo.it/
There is a Vodafone store (and a TIM store and a Wind store and a 3 store) inside.
Posted by
New York, NY, USA
11294 posts
Just to clarify for anyone else reading this, the phone stores in Terminal 1 at Fiumicino are definitely past security. Unless you are arriving or departing on a flight from that terminal, you can't use them.
And, when we were at the TIM store in Fiumicino T1 on April 28, 2014, that store did not have nano-SIMs (they did have mini- and micro-SIMs). Of course, this can change, which is why I'm being so specific about the date. We had to wait until we got to Palermo to get the nano-SIM without difficulty. Not everyone in the store spoke English, so we just waited a bit until the most fluent English speaker was free.