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An eSIM for the Caribbean is a digital data plan for the phone you already own. There is no physical SIM card, no airport lines, and no passport needed. Your plan is ready on your SIMAREA account before you even leave home.
It works safely alongside your normal SIM. You keep your own number for calls and important text messages. Your data goes through the SIMAREA plan. Just turn off data roaming on your home SIM to avoid high bills.
Coverage comes from local partner networks in each country. Your phone connects to the next one as you cross a border.
This plan does not include a local phone number. If you need a number for verification codes, use a virtual number.
What it is not: a local phone number. If you need a number for verification codes, see virtual numbers.
Caribbean eSIM for island hopping and cruise ports
One list of 25 countries and territories on every plan, from Anguilla and Barbados to Puerto Rico, with a day pass or fixed data for 7 or 30 days.
The unlimited plan is the day pass we feature for the Caribbean: after its daily full-speed allowance it keeps you connected at a lower speed, and it is billed per day for the days you choose. Fixed plans are one price for the term shown. Nothing on this page is an estimate.
One plan for the countries on its list
Set it up at home the night before. Your eSIM waits quietly until you arrive.
Pick eSIM plan
Choose how long you are there. The day pass is billed per day, so the term is yours to set.
Pay, then scan
Charged from your balance, which you top up with crypto. Your QR code is in your dashboard once the order is paid.
Turn it on at your first stop
Turn on data roaming for your SIMAREA plan when you arrive. After that it connects in each country on its list.
What to know about the Caribbean eSIM
The specifics that decide whether a travel eSIM is useful once you're actually there.
Local networks in each country
The plan connects to a partner network in every country it covers.
Set up before you go
No SIM card store, no passport check. Install it at home, then turn on data roaming for it when you arrive.
Hotspot sharing
Share your internet with a laptop or a friend, if your plan and phone allow it.
Keep your own number
The eSIM is just for internet. Your normal SIM still receives calls and important bank codes. You can use both at once.
Keep using the same eSIM
Staying longer? Top up the same plan with more data from your dashboard. No need for a new QR code.
If it does not work
Not installed or connected yet? Ask for a refund within 30 days of buying it. Installed but not working on any of its networks? Support helps, and refunds you if it cannot be fixed.
Caribbean eSIM: who's on the 25-country list
A Caribbean eSIM here covers one list on all five plans: the day pass, 1 GB for 7 days, and 3, 5, or 10 GB for 30 days. Each place has one partner network:
- FLOW: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
- Other islands: Jamaica on C&W, the Dominican Republic on Claro, Puerto Rico on Liberty, Guadeloupe on Free, and the Netherlands Antilles on Chippie.
- On the mainland: French Guiana on Digicel, and seven South American countries: Argentina (Personal), Bolivia (VIVA), Brazil (TIM), Colombia (movistar), Paraguay (Personal), Peru (Movistar), and Uruguay (Movistar).
"Netherlands Antilles" is an old name for a group of Dutch islands; for Curaçao, Bonaire, or Sint Maarten, ask support which ones the plan reaches before you pay.
Every plan runs on 4G and 3G, and traffic exits in the UK, so sites see a UK IP address.
Cruise ports and routes the list leaves out
Check each stop before a cruise; several common ones aren't on the list:
- The Bahamas: no Caribbean plan includes it. Nassau and Freeport need a Bahamas eSIM.
- The US Virgin Islands, Saint Martin, and Martinique: not named; the list has the British Virgin Islands only. Saint Martin and Martinique are on the 20-country Latin America plans.
- Cozumel and Roatán: Mexico is on the North America plans, Honduras on the Latin America 20-country plans.
The eSIM has no service at sea, where the ship's network isn't a listed partner, and its days start at the first connection in a listed place.
One Caribbean plan or an island's own plan
For a trip to a single island, compare its own plan first:
- Puerto Rico: the Puerto Rico eSIM uses AT&T with 5G, where the Caribbean plans use Liberty without 5G.
- The Dominican Republic: its own Dominican Republic eSIM connects to Altice; the Caribbean plans connect to Claro.
- Jamaica: the Jamaica eSIM sells fixed plans only, so for 1 GB a day there, take the Caribbean day pass.
- Longer trips: no Caribbean fixed plan runs past 30 days, though each one tops up with more data on the same eSIM.
Caribbean eSIM questions
Is the Caribbean day pass unlimited?
Not at full speed. Each day gives 1 GB at full speed, then 512 Kbps until the day resets, everywhere on the list. You choose how many days at checkout.
Why are Argentina and Brazil on a Caribbean plan?
The list adds seven South American countries to the islands, which helps if a trip continues to Colombia, Peru, or Brazil. Chile and Ecuador aren't on it; the Latin America eSIM lists both.
Is there 5G on the Caribbean eSIM?
No. All five plans connect on 4G or 3G, everywhere on the list.
Does the eSIM give me a Caribbean phone number?
No island on the list gives you a local number with it: these plans are data only, and calls stay on your own SIM. To receive SMS codes, rent a number from virtual numbers.
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Check your ports, then choose a Caribbean plan
Pick the day pass or 1 to 10 GB of fixed data. If a stop isn't on the list, add that island's own plan.