eSim for Dubai
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K77 CTR

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1,650 posts

204 months

Tuesday 18th November 2025
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Im about yo go to Dubai on holiday and Vodafone apparently dont have any offers for data apart from paying £7 ish per day. They suggested an eSim but I've no idea which is good and which is a scam. Any suggestions? I only need a small amount of data for checking maps and messages etc.

hotchy

4,782 posts

148 months

Tuesday 18th November 2025
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Im just back and used holafly again. Depends how many days to your cost but its unlimited data. Think I paid £25 for 9 days. Signal was great everywhere so no complaints.

K77 CTR

Original Poster:

1,650 posts

204 months

Tuesday 18th November 2025
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hotchy said:
Im just back and used holafly again. Depends how many days to your cost but its unlimited data. Think I paid £25 for 9 days. Signal was great everywhere so no complaints.
I'm only there a week, I'd seen holafly when searching, good to hear a positive story as really don't want to get caught out.

kiethton

14,482 posts

202 months

Tuesday 18th November 2025
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Use Airalo, using my eSIM from them to post this message from South Africa

nikaiyo2

5,690 posts

217 months

Tuesday 18th November 2025
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I always use Jetpac when away mainly because it allows hot spot/ tethering. Some dont allow this. Its usually pretty simple to set up and use.

GCH

4,133 posts

224 months

Tuesday 18th November 2025
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Airalo. Used them in dozens of countries and never had an issue.
Link here https://www.airalo.com/united-arab-emirates-esim

Countdown

46,955 posts

218 months

Tuesday 18th November 2025
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We used Breeze (it seemed to be the most popular one on the Uswitch website, or it might just be the one that pays them the most commission)

It was cheap and worked fine.

Silverage

2,332 posts

152 months

Tuesday 18th November 2025
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Bugger, we’re leaving for 10 days UAE, Bahrain, Qatar tomorrow and I assumed Voxi (poor man’s Vodafone) would have a roaming package. Just checked after reading this thread and they don’t.

I’ve never got involved with e-sims before but it looks like I may have to here.

K77 CTR

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1,650 posts

204 months

Friday 21st November 2025
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Thank you all, I went with airlo and after struggling slightly with the set up, it's all seemed pretty good since being here.