Saily eSIM Review + FIFA World Cup 2026: Travel North America Without RoamingSaily eSIM Review + FIFA World Cup 2026: Travel North America Without Roaming

You know the feeling. You land abroad, switch on your phone — and your carrier greets you with a text about roaming charges that reads like a small heart attack.

I had that for years. Then I started using Saily. Since then, that problem has simply disappeared.

What is Saily, exactly?

Saily is an eSIM app from the team behind NordVPN — a company I’ve known and trusted for a while. The idea is dead simple:

1. Download the app, pick your destination country
2. Buy a data plan (from about €1–2/GB)
3. Scan the QR code → your eSIM is active
4. Use data abroad like normal — no roaming, no nasty surprises

No physical SIM. No call to your carrier. No hidden costs.

Why I use it on every trip

I don’t travel daily — but when I do, I want to be productive. Read the map, check messages, stay reachable in an emergency. With my home SIM that would be expensive abroad, or I’d have to hunt for Wi-Fi.

With Saily I just buy a local data plan for the destination before I leave. It’s active the moment I land. No waiting, no searching.

What I value most:

• 150+ countries — including more off-the-beaten-path destinations
• Plans from 1 GB — perfect for short trips, you don’t always need 10 GB
• No contract — I only pay when I travel
• Multiple eSIMs at once — my home number stays active for calls
• Activate before departure — no stressful scramble at the airport

For workation or longer vanlife trips there are bigger plans too. I pair Saily for mobile data with Starlink as a backup — I wrote more about that here.

Is it actually worth it on price?

An honest comparison for a week in Spain:

Option	Cost
Home SIM roaming (major carriers)	€5–10/day → €35–70
Local prepaid SIM at the airport	€10–20 (one-off)
Saily eSIM 5 GB Spain	about €6–8

The advantage over a local prepaid SIM: no physical swapping, no queueing, no second number. Everything runs on one device.

Saily or Saily Ultra — which one fits you?

Saily comes in two flavors. The difference is bigger than it sounds.

Standard Saily — the one I’ve known for years. Prepaid, flexible, perfect for occasional travelers. Buy a data plan when you fly, pay nothing after. From about €5 for small plans.

Saily Ultra — a monthly subscription for frequent travelers: $59.99/month, which gets you:

• 30 GB high-speed + unlimited after that (throttled)
• 121+ countries — one profile for everything
• NordVPN, NordPass and NordLayer included — so VPN protection on hotel Wi-Fi is built in
• An airport lounge pass each month (rolling, up to 3 months)
• Fast-track security pass
• 8% cashback on Saily credit
• Priority support

My take: for 1–2 trips a year the subscription makes no sense. From 3–4 trips a year, or if you do vanlife/workation and use NordVPN anyway, Saily Ultra pays off quickly.

→ Check out Saily Ultra

Especially relevant now: FIFA World Cup 2026 in North America

The FIFA World Cup 2026 runs from June 11 to July 19, 2026 across the USA, Canada and Mexico — the first ever World Cup hosted by three countries at once. 48 teams, 16 host cities, the final on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in New York.

If you’re going, you have exactly the problem Saily solves: three countries, three different mobile networks, constant border crossings. A regional North America plan from Saily runs on a single eSIM profile across all three countries — no SIM swapping, no roaming shock.

Saily currently has 35% off North America plans. There’s also a free Saily travel guide for fans included with every North America data plan right now.

My honest verdict

Saily isn’t the game-changer — eSIMs themselves are. But Saily makes it the easiest: a clean app, fair prices, a reliable connection, and a team I’ve known through NordVPN for a while.

For anyone who travels regularly or is planning workation/vanlife: it’s one of the simplest upgrades with the best effort-to-payoff ratio I know.

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A tip for you: through my link you get 10% off your first data plan.

→ Get Saily eSIM now (10% off)

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Disclosure: this article contains an affiliate link. If you sign up through it I earn a small commission — at no extra cost to you, and you even get 10% off. I recommend Saily from my own positive experience using it.

— Daniel