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How to get internet in Canary Islands on Holiday
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GixerKate
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I'm going to the Canary Islands with the family for just over a week and the place we are going to doesn't have wifi so I'm looking for alternatives. I've Googled and seen Holafly, seems pretty good? I don't know if just one of us having it and sharing 500mg a day will be enough though, we (family of 4) are all pretty heavy users - gaming and streaming.
Is Holafly the way to go or are there any other alternatives?
Is Holafly the way to go or are there any other alternatives?
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How about leave the devices at home, forget the gaming and streaming for a week and enjoy the weather, the company and the unique experience of being together as a family for a week?Mr Generous - Landlord for more than 10 years. Generous? - Possibly but sarcastic more likely.7
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Lebara SIM only might work and you cancel after 30 days. We use Breeze eSim for our roaming outside EU and it works brilliantly. Holafly have great advertising but aren't the cheapest. Other one from MSE is EasySimRemember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.1
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I have found these comparison sites useful:
https://esimradar.com/
https://esimdb.com/
It is also worth checking your UK providers roaming package, for short trips and heavy data use they can be still be good value compared to eSIM.2 -
As basill mentioned above, before you start looking at third party providers, have you checked to see if any of the people going have free Internet included with their UK SIM tariff
In our case I have to pay my provider (Vodafone) a 1-off £14.00 payment for 25 gigabytes of EU roaming data whereas my wife (ID) and son (O2) both get 20-25 GB of EU roaming per month included for free.
If this isn't an option then there are plenty e-SIM providers, (providing your phone is a recent model and supports it), but be aware that these generally only offer data whereas the UK providers will also include calls and texts in the package too.
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GixerKate said:I'm going to the Canary Islands with the family for just over a week and the place we are going to doesn't have wifi so I'm looking for alternatives. I've Googled and seen Holafly, seems pretty good? I don't know if just one of us having it and sharing 500mg a day will be enough though, we (family of 4) are all pretty heavy users - gaming and streaming.
Is Holafly the way to go or are there any other alternatives?Saily.com Get 15% off with the code: SAILYUKIf you look for a Youtube Channel called "TrueBlue travellers" - John and Jess have just been to the US and Canada and one of their recent videos is sponsored by Saily. It's App based, so you don't need another SIM, you just subscribe for however long you want data for. As one of their recent videos is sponsored by Saily, they have a x% off discount if you use their link1 -
ButterCheese said:GixerKate said:I'm going to the Canary Islands with the family for just over a week and the place we are going to doesn't have wifi so I'm looking for alternatives. I've Googled and seen Holafly, seems pretty good? I don't know if just one of us having it and sharing 500mg a day will be enough though, we (family of 4) are all pretty heavy users - gaming and streaming.
Is Holafly the way to go or are there any other alternatives?Saily.com Get 15% off with the code: SAILYUKIf you look for a Youtube Channel called "TrueBlue travellers" - John and Jess have just been to the US and Canada and one of their recent videos is sponsored by Saily. It's App based, so you don't need another SIM, you just subscribe for however long you want data for. As one of their recent videos is sponsored by Saily, they have a x% off discount if you use their link
Recent review of Saily on Reddit here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/1c29feb/saily_esim_review_and_my_experience_with_it/
Not sure why you think that the Saily product isn't a SIM? It's an eSIM and yes it does need an app to activate.
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la531983 said:GixerKate said:we (family of 4) are all pretty heavy users - gaming and streaming.
Ok, my idea of heavy users isn't quite to that extent, we mainly play games and stream netflix etc from our phones and tablets so we do use quite a bit of data. Just in case people were thinking we all sit in silence staring at devices we actually tend to play stuff together plus we will need to be inside during the peak heat times as I can burn to blisters in 20 minutes and the rest of my family are fairer than me lol.
We are with GiffGaff (so O2) I don't think I have the option of a Roaming add-on but going to check, great idea.
Thanks for everyone with the suggestions of other eSIMs, its not an idea I've explored previous to today so I'm going to take a good look.0
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