sat nav maps - buy europe map or hire sat nav?

silvercar

Going to be in Italy in the Summer.

Either need to buy the Tomtom maps for £40 or hire a sat nav as an extra to the car hire. Is this possible? Will the foreign sat nav speak english? Anyone know the extra cost?

balsingh

I'd pay the £40 for the maps. They cover all of europe and will be the latest maps. They may come in useful for a future trip too.

Hiring a sat nav may end up costing more especially if they charge by the day. You then have to learn how to use it and get use to the maps/layout etc. which may be compeletly confusing as you are used to a Tomtom.

LittleTinker

Id buy a map of Italy from the car boot for 50p :-))

BenL

I was thinking about it for a trip to France as well.

I had researched a bit for Tom Tom Western Europe Maps and the advice I saw was stay away from ebay.

The maps on there are likely to have already been activated and have been copied so they are now useless.

I understand the maps can only be activated once and linked to a specific TomTom.

The Tom Tom One V3 has internal memory as well which makes it harder to do the swap. v1 and V2 have SD cards that can be swapped.

I am now using a map instead, more "fun". Well the g/f will be spoiling for an argument so might as well oblige.

Ben