We're traveling to Italy soon for just a few days, and would like to have phone/data service while we're there. We have Sunrise here in Switzerland. They have a 7-day roaming plan ( https://www.sunrise.ch/en/residentia...tml?country=IT ), but it's CHF 39! Does anyone have a better suggestion? When we go to the US, we often buy a new SIM card with a 1-month plan for about $40. I know, everything's more expensive here. I can deal with that cost if that's the best there is, but I feel like I must be missing something.
Lycamobile.ch - free sim - CHF19 for 30 days’ phone 📞 500 minutes. Data will cost you in Italy 🇮🇹, but not even Lycamobile knows how much. But data can be paid from top up bonuses...
When you go to Italy you can buy a SIM card. I've used TIM (Telecom Italia) before, mainly because the company is everywhere in terms of shops/agencies but also because travelling in rural Italy they had a good network for where I was.
You can visit a shop and you'll need some ID like a passport and it takes 5 minutes and then a couple of hours for the card to be activated and you are good to go.
You can either go yourself or you can prepay online and get a voucher, handy if you do not want to speak Italian in the shop at https://www.tim.it/tim-visitors-en
For Italy I use an Italian www.lycamobile.it card. It's a bit of a hassle to get it registered, but well worth it after that.
Generally for all EU-visits, I find www.hot.at (hot is for HO fer T elecom; Austrian name of Aldi) a very good choice: It's €1.99 to buy the SIM in any Hofer in Austria, the card doesn't need any registration, and at €9.90 you get 2.2GB which can be used all over the EU (or €13.30 for 3.1GB).
All calls from/to EU are charged at 3.9c/minute, and if you surf without booking any package that's charged at 0.9c/MB (computes at ~€9/GB).
I like the idea of going without the phone for a vacation, but on a short visit, I also like the idea of not getting lost, and I'm totally reliant on Google Maps!