{"id":585,"date":"2015-10-06T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/?p=585"},"modified":"2015-10-06T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T15:59:00","slug":"travel-tech-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Travel Tech Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being a techie, that is what I will discuss first, as the right tech can make things seriously easier.<\/p>\n

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  1. What to buy:<\/strong> \u00a0Electrical adapters. \u00a0Buy this! (click on image for clearer text)\"Plugs\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. What to bring:<\/strong> USB cords, USB power adapters. \u00a0Your adapters and laptop power equipment will almost always say 110-230v. \u00a0If it only says 110, don’t bring it! \u00a0Israel has 220v. \u00a0If you bring any electrical equipment that requires 110v, you will need a transformer adapter, which is bulky and heavy. \u00a0We did not bring one, and did not need one. \u00a0Be sure to not leave your adapters behind when you change your accommodations!<\/li>\n
  3. Cell Phone:<\/strong> Put your smart phone in Airplane Mode and only turn on wireless<\/strong> when you need it while traveling, to avoid roaming charges. \u00a0Do not take your phone off Airplane mode until you get a local Israeli SIM card in the phone.<\/li>\n
  4. As SOON AS POSSIBLE get a SIM card for your smart phone. \u00a0This is the most important thing you can do to make finding your way around on day one easier!<\/strong>\u00a0 For my Droid Turbo, we had to change settings for the network type to GLOBAL, and it took the guy in the store a while to get it working. \u00a0Bring an IPhone if you can. \u00a0When you remove your US SIM card, tape it to the back of a card in your wallet, so you don’t lose it.<\/li>\n
  5. Have a currency converter app.<\/strong>\u00a0 While we were there, it was about 4 NIS (New Israeli Shekels) to one US Dollar. \u00a0The SIM card I got for my droid was about 140 NIS ($35) for one month unlimited talk\/text and 3 GB data. \u00a0I was there two weeks and used only about 1 GB data with all my mapping and searching.<\/li>\n
  6. Skype:<\/strong> \u00a0This is great for keeping in touch with family. \u00a0Purchasing the call option for Israel was about $16 or so for the month, and allowed me to call Israeli land lines from the US before I left<\/strong> to set up reservations and such. \u00a0There is good wireless almost everywhere, and Skype had about a 70% success rate, and re-connects when the call is dropped.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I am happy to report, that we had about a 70% success rate in terms of properly planning and executing the tips above. \u00a0Better luck when you go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Being a techie, that is what I will discuss first, as the right tech can make things seriously easier. What to buy: \u00a0Electrical adapters. \u00a0Buy this! (click on image for clearer text) What to bring: USB cords, USB power adapters. \u00a0Your adapters and laptop power equipment will almost always say 110-230v. \u00a0If it only says … Continue reading Travel Tech Tips<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-travel-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}