I am arriving in Barcelona on October 2 and will be in Spain until the 26th. Wondering about getting a SIM card at the Barcelona airport upon arrival or shopping for one in the city. Also, what service is recommended for Spain. I have looked at Movistar, Orange, and Vodphone online. I would like to use a cell to call hotels, home hosts, airlines, and restaurants. I would also like to have cell internet coverage for maps, subways, and rail. Suggestions? Comments? Any reponses will be greatly appreciated.
Any of the above will do fine. The competitive market will make their offers for a pre-paid package roughly equivalent.
For what it’s worth, my European SIM is from Vodafone Spain and I have no complaints.
Don’t know about SIMs in the airport. I always pre-scout a phone store close to my hotel on the maps, and make it my first “mission” upon arrival.
Be sure your phone is unlocked from your usual carrier.
I don't know what phone carrier you have, I have ATT. When I travel I get 30 days on a plan called Passport for around $50 dollars (start on the day you want) comes with unlimited texting and calls at a reasonable rate and a reasonable amount of data ( It works fine for me as all I usually do is text and only call when necessary. J
I'm assuming you have already ruled out your carrier? (TMobile makes it seamless, but I did recently learn you do need to do the upgrade for better speed in Spain).
my friend is there right now, she has a Verizon phone (through Spectrum) and just turned on their international plan. She also called and texted me over Whatsapp this morning and it worked just fine.
joanne- AT&T has discontinued the Passport offering, which really wasn’t a good value—$70 for 2Gig.
They now offer “International Day Pass” for $10 a day.
Compared to 15-20g for under 20euros from a local carrier in Europe….
I have Verizon and signed up for a global plan for voice, text and data for a month. Ive done this several times and it worked well.