Last year, we made a long trip through France(to the Alps near Geneva), and I bought a sat nav in anticipation, but didn't realise it was a UK only one until we got into France (I know, I felt like an idiot), so we ended up buying a good old Atlas and using old style navigation. Luckily, I didn't grow up with sat navs so was ok with this.
We are doing a similar journey this year, although a different route, which will include Netherlands and Belgium,too, and I am trying to decide if it's worth buying another sat nav.Ppart of me thinks, just use the atlas again, but I would need maps for Netherlands and Belgium too, so am already incurring extra costs anyway (although I realise paper maps are heaper than sat navs)
The alternative is to use the mobile phone, but how well do phone sat nav apps work? Does it depend on the quality of the phone, or is it more to do with signal, and how much data does it eat?
Hope someone has some experience. Thanks