Best travel eSIM

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• countyboy Posts: 1,709

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  27/11/25 - 09:32 #2

  Singsongfun - Try Honest Mobile which has some benefits. £38.25 for a year on their current Black Friday offer.

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• gardensleeper Posts: 2,224

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  27/11/25 - 11:59 #3

  countyboy wrote: »

  Singsongfun - Try Honest Mobile which has some benefits. £38.25 for a year on their current Black Friday offer.

  
  Personally, I’d avoid this like the plague.
  
  The range of apps you can use is limited, users report slow data speeds, and any browsing, downloading streaming or video calling at all is blocked.
  
  It may suit a very regular traveler with a specific use case of maps and banking apps, but personally, I’d shove that money onto an airalo or Roamless eSIM, which will buy you many gb’s of data and just use it as you need it.

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• Mark C Posts: 25,626

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  27/11/25 - 12:25 #4

  +1 for Roamless

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• singsongfun Posts: 625

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  27/11/25 - 13:43 #5

  Thanks for the Roamless recommendation.

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• countyboy Posts: 1,709

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  27/11/25 - 14:41 #6

  And thanks for clarifying that Honest appears to overstate their claims.

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• steffangl Posts: 466

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  27/11/25 - 19:28 #7

  eSIM.sm Global SIM - one pot of credit with PAYG rates that differ by country, no expiry.
  Enable 'Low data mode' or equivalent for the SIM to stop any unnecessary photo syncing / updates using data in the background.
  If you need large amounts of data their fixed packages or one of the big players like Airalo my suit better, but there's often waste as they expire

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• tycho-mag Posts: 9,284

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  27/11/25 - 20:11 #8

  US Friends of mine have used airalo when travelling in UK and Europe with zero problems.

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• trailadventures Posts: 87

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  28/11/25 - 08:03 #9

  +1 For Roamless too, also very handy as a sim to use at home for areas where theres no coverage on your main sim

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• gardensleeper Posts: 2,224

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  28/11/25 - 16:41 edited 28/11/25 - 16:42 #10

  trailadventures wrote: »

  +1 For Roamless too, also very handy as a sim to use at home for areas where theres no coverage on your main sim

  
  Exactly, which for UK users seems to be the main selling point for “Honest”.
  
  I have a Roamless sim with a tenner or so on it, ready and waiting for the occasions when my main EE sim doesn’t work.
  
  So far, I’ve probably fired it up 5 or 6 times and used about a gig of data all year - so around £2.
  
  Useful to have, far less restricted and significantly cheaper than “Honest”.

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• nigelbb Posts: 1,406

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  29/11/25 - 08:51 edited 29/11/25 - 08:52 #11

  I have used both Roamless & eSIM.sm Global SIMs. Roamless is a flat rate $2.45/GB & is generally more expensive. Cost of eSIM.sm does depend where you are roaming e.g. France $1.42/GB, UK $1.37/GB or Turkey $1.04/GB.
  
  The clincher for me is that Roamless does not roam onto EE in the UK whereas eSIM.sm does which as my main SIM is ID Mobile running on the Three network gives me the best overall UK coverage.

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