The review
Holafly is included because you will see it everywhere and deserve a straight answer about it.
It sells days, not gigabytes. A month across thirty-three European countries is $73.90, the same as a month in the USA alone, with no limit on how much you use on the phone itself. For somebody streaming and navigating all day on a handset and no laptop, that is a real proposition and the anxiety of watching a data counter goes away.
For this audience it mostly is not. Tethering is limited to a gigabyte a day, which is an hour or two of real work, and the threshold at which your unlimited data slows down is nowhere on their site — the other four publish theirs. Top-ups were withdrawn, so extending a trip means buying a second eSIM and switching between them. Refunds require that you have not activated or used it, which is exactly when you discover a problem. There is one version worth a look: the monthly subscription at around sixty euros lifts the hotspot limit and adds a number, though that number only receives texts.
What works
- No total data ceiling to watch on the handset
- 142-country global plan, the widest unlimited offer here
- 1GB a month of backup data that never expires
- The monthly subscription does lift the hotspot cap
What does not
- Hotspot capped at 1GB a day, so a laptop is not really an option
- Never says at what point it slows your unlimited data down
- About four times the price of the fixed-data plans here
- Top-ups have been abolished; a long trip needs a second eSIM