Back in the early days of travel (a couple of years ago!) you needed to buy a physical SIM card to go into your phone for each country you visited or risk high roaming charges, finding and logging into various wifi or….go without!
Now you can download an eSIM to your phone, with unlimited data, avoid potential costly roaming charges and keep your own phone number active for any messages or calls.
There are a huge range of providers and options when it comes to eSIMs including Airalo, Saily, Roamless, Sim Local and Holafly giving access to data across most countries in the world.
Whilst some offer sign up deals they all offer pretty much the same service with easy to use Apps and eSIM download functions. But there will be some differences around:
– Plan options. Such as how long you can take it for 1, 5, 10,
They will all over the ability to provide hot spot so others in your party can use the data too but some have restrictions on