Holiday Inn City Center, my choice for accommodation in Munich. Very good breakfast and excellent location only two stops from Marieplatz. The only drawback is 22 euros for a day on the Internet. I don't think I have seen this kind of price before, anywhere. So I had to find another solution. My German colleagues said that there probably won't be any cheap alternative. Still, I decided to try. I went to the Vodafone shop and they had an offer for me: 4.95 euros/24h unlimited surfing. Valid until the end of August. I bought the prepaid 19-euro CallYa starter kit (10 euro credit included) and started surfing with my N95. In five minutes I received an SMS saying that my account was depleted. What could be the reason?
I have not been a prepaid user before so I had no idea what I had done wrong. So I went back to the shop and they said that I shouldn't have used the phone but, for example, a USB modem. Apparently it was the Vodafone live access point that took all my money. I bought some more credit and tried again with my Huawei USB HSDPA stick. This was a mission impossible. Even if I asked the access point name from the customer support, I was not able to use the stick. Customer support asked me to install Vodafone connect SW because my Mobile partner SW did not work here, for some reason.
Finally I gave up, deleted all Vodafone SW from my PC and tried with my N95 and a USB cable. Nokia PC Suite did the trick. I just pressed One touch access and the connection was activated. I am very happy with the speed and the quality of the service. And the price isn't that bad considering that I only need it for 4 days.
What has Frau Wewerka to do with all this? Nothing. She works in a bookshop at Karlsplatz. You should've seen her face when I bought the book (see the picture). The cover says it's a huge success in Germany.
