Road Tripping in the USA!

I've just used Google Maps when I've got data (Three Feel At Home) and Here Maps in Canada / USA when I've not had data.

Here Maps was fine enough providing you knew the address, Google Maps is much better though as you can just type in things like 'Starbucks' and it'll find the nearest one (along with really good walking directions).
 
I'll be using Google maps and downloading the regions that I need before I leave.
I've got Sygic as a backup.
 
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Here maps could be used for driving the long stints and wouldn't use data.

Google maps for in cities/hotels using wifi to get directions then GPS once found location?
 
rossk26 said:
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Here maps could be used for driving the long stints and wouldn't use data.

Google maps for in cities/hotels using wifi to get directions then GPS once found location?
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I've always just bought a £15 PAYG Three SIM card which has given me a month of unlimited data to use out there, it makes things so much easier.
 
Peerzy said:
I've always just bought a £15 PAYG Three SIM card which has given me a month of unlimited data to use out there, it makes things so much easier.
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That's what I was going to do, but I want to keep my existing number for WhatsApp and calls
 
[TW]Fox;29386037 said:
WA will work fine with a new SIM in it. If anyone calls you on your non Three number you don't want to answer it anyway as incoming calls = £££
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Ideal, I also meant WhatsApp for calls too. Will this also work fine with 3 SIM in?

If so, then I'll go back to my original idea of the 3 SIM. How much data do you think would be required? £15 only gets you 2GB, £20 12GB, £23 30GB.
 
I used my Three Feel at Home Unlimited when I went to New York June 2015. It was absolutely appalling. So slow nothing would load, I just had E / Edge everywhere I went. Then went to Chicago, same thing there.


I was thinking when I'm there in September, I'll bite the bullet and buy some sort of MiFi dongle + PAYG simcard with unlimited data/calls. Any recommendations? I have a Xperia Z5 (E6653) I could use as a hotspot if im not mistaken, instead of the dongle and save some cash that way?




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[TW]Fox;29385841 said:
Google maps doesn't save large enough areas offline.
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If there's enough space in you phone you can save adjoining areas.
I currently have saved maps to cover Ottawa to Richmond, VA and LA to Lake Tahoe.
 
kaktus said:
I used my Three Feel at Home Unlimited when I went to New York June 2015. It was absolutely appalling. So slow nothing would load, I just had E / Edge everywhere I went. Then went to Chicago, same thing there

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I set my phone to 3g only and it was absolutely fine and perfectly usable.
 
Quick question. How large is the boot in the convertible Mustangs? I want a convertible for a 4 week long honeymoon road trip but the wife (to be) is adamant that we need to take 2 suitcases "so we can bring back tons of cool swag".
 
FishFluff said:
Quick question. How large is the boot in the convertible Mustangs? I want a convertible for a 4 week long honeymoon road trip but the wife (to be) is adamant that we need to take 2 suitcases "so we can bring back tons of cool swag".
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I just about fitted two large holdall style bags into the boot. It's a tight squeeze, especially for 4 weeks.
 
kaktus said:
I used my Three Feel at Home Unlimited when I went to New York June 2015. It was absolutely appalling. So slow nothing would load, I just had E / Edge everywhere I went. Then went to Chicago, same thing there.
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I used my Three Feel at Home last week in NYC and had 3G everywhere. It was good enough to provide walking directions and constant googling. My wife who also had the same was happy on Facebook, Twitter etc....

FishFluff said:
Quick question. How large is the boot in the convertible Mustangs? I want a convertible for a 4 week long honeymoon road trip but the wife (to be) is adamant that we need to take 2 suitcases "so we can bring back tons of cool swag".
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We rented a convertible Mustang on our honeymoon for a 4 week road trip in the US. There is no way you'd fit 2 normal suitcases (purely down to the shape of the boot).

What you need is something the size of a large suitcase, with wheels but soft so that it can be squashed into the boot. We got some Tripp ones from House of Fraser that were on special (about £40ish). Something like THIS.

They worked perfectly (2 will go into the boot and still leave enough space for 2 backpacks or similar). We always bring back tons of clothes and you can fit a surprising amount into them, but they are soft so you can't bring back anything that might break.

EDIT: THIS is the exact case we use, they've survived 3 road trips so far and still in good condition.
 
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Cheers guys. We have a couple of holdall style cases already so will suggest we take those. From looking on YouTube it looks like the newer Mustangs have a bigger boot, but I've no idea what model of Mustang the rental companies have.

It's 2017 we're going though (I like to plan ahead) so maybe the newer ones will have made it into the rental fleets?
 
FishFluff said:
Cheers guys. We have a couple of holdall style cases already so will suggest we take those. From looking on YouTube it looks like the newer Mustangs have a bigger boot, but I've no idea what model of Mustang the rental companies have.

It's 2017 we're going though (I like to plan ahead) so maybe the newer ones will have made it into the rental fleets?
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I've used my cases in a 2014 (so S197) and 2015 (S550) Mustang and they fitted fine.

All US rental Mustangs now will be 2015 onwards (S550). A rental in 2017 will be a S550 (current 2015 onwards model).

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Those bags are 75cm x 35cm x 35cm.
 
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