{"id":20801,"date":"2016-04-19T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=20801"},"modified":"2018-12-04T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:58:24","slug":"1gb-per-day-3g-mobile-prepay-internet-in-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/1gb-per-day-3g-mobile-prepay-internet-in-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"1GB per Day 3G Mobile Prepay Internet Access in Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re in Croatia for few weeks, travelling from Split northwards in our motorhome<\/a>. We like blogging our way along, and usually pop something up onto the Internet every few days. Or every day when we’re moving fast enough, so we prefer having frequent Internet access. As we’re from the UK, we were using Three’s Feel at Home SIM as we travelled south into Italy, which seems the best multi-country deal currently available in the UK. However, the Three offer only covers a few countries in Europe (as of April 2016), and Croatia isn’t one of them. So we needed another solution. In fact, we needed two.<\/p>\n

Solution number 1 is\u00a0WiFi.<\/strong> The campsites we’ve stayed on to date (free camping is actively discouraged in Croatia and we’ve not dared try it) have thrown in WiFi with the deal. Using a directional booster antenna, we’ve managed with this for the past three weeks. Having spent a couple of decades working in IT, my patience for telecommunications technology is non-existent, and campsite WiFi is,\u00a0ah, a bit\u00a0flaky from time to time. That said, you can’t beat WiFi for providing all-you-can-eat data. No worrying about using all your data by tea time, allowing Skype calls and listening to Chris Evans on Internet Radio 2 while sat alongside a foreign beach, sweet.<\/p>\n

Solution number 2 is Cellular Internet.<\/strong> For this we have a MiFi which sits in a cupboard, connected all the time to an omnidirectional antenna fixed on the roof, and plugged into the van’s 12V supply (more info here<\/a>). Using this system, we’ve had decent Internet access almost everywhere we’ve been, no hassle, but limited data depending on the SIM it has in it and the associated deal. To get this working here in Croatia, we’ve nipped to a post office and picked up a Vipme Internet pre-paid SIM, like this:<\/p>\n

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Vipme Prepay Internet Data SIM in Croatia<\/p><\/div>\n

The deal with this is:<\/p>\n