Holafly alternatives: destination by destination

The table: one week in each destination

Every amount in this table is in euros, whatever currency you have selected: Holafly publishes them in euros and we don’t convert them. Glowi’s come from the same catalogue as the destination pages, VAT included. “Glowi, for less money” is our plan with the most GB that costs less than their 7-day plan. Each destination links to its full comparison.

Unlimited by the day or counted GB: what is being compared

A Holafly plan gives you days: for 7 days, as much data as you like on your phone. A GB plan gives you an amount, for example 10 GB to use within 30 days. They aren’t the same product, so we don’t compare “price per GB”: we compare how much you get with Glowi for less than their week costs.

If those GB cover your trip, Glowi costs you less. If you’ll use more, or you’d rather not watch the counter, unlimited makes sense. Where we sell an unlimited plan by the day, the table also shows its 7-day price, with the daily full-speed cap we publish.

We go into it in more detail in Unlimited data eSIMs: what they don’t tell you.

The small print of Holafly’s unlimited

“Turn your smartphone into a Wi-Fi hotspot and connect several devices, with 1 GB of data to share per day.”

In other words: what they sell as unlimited is unlimited for your phone, but what you share through the hotspot is limited to 1 GB a day. On a 7-day plan, 7 GB in total.

And that “unlimited” on the phone isn’t unconditional either: Holafly mentions a “Fair Use Policy” that can apply “for a period of no more than one (1) day” (our translation), but doesn’t publish how many GB trigger it. That’s what can be verified: that they mention it and that the threshold isn’t published. We don’t know whether it’s applied, or when.

Other alternatives

For Saily, Airalo, and Nomad we publish their prices, with source and date, in the eSIM price comparison. Only for the destinations where we have checked them:

• eSIM price comparison for Japan: Glowi, Saily, Airalo and Nomad
• eSIM price comparison for Morocco: Glowi, Saily, Airalo and Nomad
• eSIM price comparison for Turkey: Glowi, Saily, Airalo and Nomad
• eSIM price comparison for the United Kingdom: Glowi, Saily, Airalo and Nomad
• eSIM price comparison for China: Glowi, Saily, Airalo and Nomad
• eSIM price comparison for Argentina: Glowi, Saily, Airalo and Nomad
• All destinations in the price comparison

How this page is made

• Holafly’s prices are the ones on their website, in euros, and each row carries the link to the page we checked and the date.
• Glowi’s come from our catalogue every time the website is updated: they are the same as on each destination page.
• We don’t write the conclusion of each row by hand: the website works it out with both catalogues in front of it, from the GB per day given by our plan with the most GB that costs less than their 7-day plan.
• We don’t compare speed or coverage, because we have no measurements of our own. And there are no ratings or stars on this page.

Prices change. If you spot a difference, send it to us and we’ll correct it.