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First time Driving in US - Advice?

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    #62
    Skittles80
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭Skittles80


    Anyone recommendations for car hire in Orlando?


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    #63
    udun
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭udun


    I spent a few weeks driving there last summer. My advice would be if you have any sort of smartphone buy an American sim card when you're there and use that as a GPS through Google maps. I got my sim card off t mobile or something for 50 dollars which was a 30 day sim only plan and came with 20gb of data I believe. Compared to the 17 dollars per day you would pay for a GPS with is much cheaper.

    You will find it a lot easier driving there. The roads are wider and generally the traffic flows except for outside Boston which I found to be incredibly slow moving and filled with potholes. I'd also advise you to buy a toll tag with your rental as its a lot cheaper in the long run. (long Island toll in NY is 15 dollars for instance)


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    #64
    jjbrien
    Registered Users Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭jjbrien


    Skittles80 wrote: »
    Anyone recommendations for car hire in Orlando?

    Dont rent at the airport i found the rates there more expensive than in downtown Orlando. I booked a car for 5 days in September there it was €80 for 3 days downtown and the airport was coming up 2 to 3 times as much


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    #65
    jme2010
    Registered Users Posts: 974 ✭✭✭jme2010


    udun wrote: »
    if you have any sort of smartphone buy an American sim card when you're there and use that as a GPS through Google maps. I got my sim card off t mobile or something for 50 dollars which was a 30 day sim only plan and came with 20gb of data I believe. Compared to the 17 dollars per day you would pay for a GPS with is much cheaper.

    If I was doing longer drives or out in Arizona / Utah deserts I would find a rental package that includes the GPS.

    We lost phone signal a lot trough very remote areas and needed to turn on the GPS unit (thankfully we had it).

    But if you were just staying in one built up state, yeah phone/sim would be better than paying extra for gps.


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    #66
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,438 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    jme2010 wrote: »
    If I was doing longer drives or out in Arizona / Utah deserts I would find a rental package that includes the GPS.

    What use is a GPS when driving through a featureless desert? Surely you'd just buy a paper map of the region in a gas station, won't that do the job?


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