I'l be sure to check the packages carefully :) I just checked the train connections, and unless I'm magic and can make the train that leave 15 minutes after I land, I'll have to wait around for an hour anyway, so I should have time to find an ATM and a Handyshop or a dm or something. I spent some time poking around the FRA website, and they have a few Handy shops and an Apotheke, which (unlike the US) isn't a drug store.
(I also don't know if I'll be able to access the parts inside security in Terminal 1 (I'll land in terminal 2) or if I'll be limited to whatever is between international (non-EU) arrivals and the Bhf. But if I don't find anything, I'm sure there's something in Mannheim, maybe even in the Hbf there.)
My US phone is currently locked, but if I call AT&T and ask them, I should be able to get a code to enter when I put a different company's card into the phone. The phone I want to take is long enough out of contract that they shouldn't have a problem doing it. (It's 3 phones ago I think? so over 6 years. We get two-year contracts and discounted phones. Needlessly complicated.)
Yeah, that explanation made sense. How do you tell if it's the same carrier? The first few digits? In the US, mobiles and Festnetz phones all work under the same system, and you always have to dial the area code from a mobile. And I don't think any of them do intra-network discounts anymore. AT&T used to have free mobile to mobile to other AT&T customers, but now unlimited calling plans are so common, they stopped. Not that I ever use my phone as an actual PHONE or anything...
What is a good type of store to buy something like this? I don't need a whole cable, just the bit that goes into the wall. (I have so many micro-to-USB cables.) I've heard of Media Markt; is there anything else? Saturn turns up in google, too. (I'd really like to get a two-port one so Ben and I can both charge things at the same time, but neither Media Markt nor Saturn lists those on their sites.
(There's Aldi, Aldi Süd, and Lidl in Mannheim; I am overwhelmed.)
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(I also don't know if I'll be able to access the parts inside security in Terminal 1 (I'll land in terminal 2) or if I'll be limited to whatever is between international (non-EU) arrivals and the Bhf. But if I don't find anything, I'm sure there's something in Mannheim, maybe even in the Hbf there.)
My US phone is currently locked, but if I call AT&T and ask them, I should be able to get a code to enter when I put a different company's card into the phone. The phone I want to take is long enough out of contract that they shouldn't have a problem doing it. (It's 3 phones ago I think? so over 6 years. We get two-year contracts and discounted phones. Needlessly complicated.)
Yeah, that explanation made sense. How do you tell if it's the same carrier? The first few digits? In the US, mobiles and Festnetz phones all work under the same system, and you always have to dial the area code from a mobile. And I don't think any of them do intra-network discounts anymore. AT&T used to have free mobile to mobile to other AT&T customers, but now unlimited calling plans are so common, they stopped. Not that I ever use my phone as an actual PHONE or anything...
What is a good type of store to buy something like this? I don't need a whole cable, just the bit that goes into the wall. (I have so many micro-to-USB cables.) I've heard of Media Markt; is there anything else? Saturn turns up in google, too. (I'd really like to get a two-port one so Ben and I can both charge things at the same time, but neither Media Markt nor Saturn lists those on their sites.
(There's Aldi, Aldi Süd, and Lidl in Mannheim; I am overwhelmed.)