E Sim for several countries?

Frosty_Jack

I was thinking of planning a trip, and thought how convenient (even essential) an e sim would be. From what I gather you have to choose the country you are choosing to use it in before you fly off. But what if you are going to, say, 3 or more countries and have no set dates for each new arrival? (Apart from the first arrival). Basically leaving when you are ready and not pre-planning. Is there a way around this? I suppose you could estimate how long you would stay there, and if the data runs out just rely on WiFi? Also this assumes you can pick 3 or more countries in a shortish time frame.

born_again

Some such as Holafly do via regions.

Just remember to look on U-Tube as many such as True Blue Travelers have discount codes on them. 👍

virgo17

I have used both Roamless and BNE eSims in many parts of the world, both in and outside of Europe. Neither of these require you to specify the country to be visited.

Occasionally they may ask which country you are visiting to show you the data allowance as that varies with some countries being more expensive for a given amount of data.

This year we have been to Greece, Italy, Germany and Singapore and the two eSims above have worked in all.

hugheskevi

I travelled the Americas a few years back over an extended period without any pre-planned entry/exits dates for any countries beyond the USA and Canada, taking an e-Sim phone with me. 

I regretted it a lot, and only used e-SIM once when we were spending a very short time in Canada. For all the other countries in central and south America I used 3 PAYG or local SIMS that were much cheaper than e-Sims. I would have much preferred to have 2 physical SIM slots, as I often needed my UK SIM to receive codes to get into websites.

Relying on wifi is not great. You can download offline maps for directions, but things like Uber are going to need a connection. The only country I relied only on wifi for was Paraguay, as getting a local SIM was a big phaff and we weren't there for very long.