August 11, 2026
The cheapest Europe plan we sell does not include France
Our cheapest European bundle covers 35 countries and not France. A 33-country one at the same price does. Regional eSIM plans are sold on country counts, and the count is the wrong number to buy on.
We sell five large European bundles. The cheapest of them covers 35 countries for $3.00 and does not include France. A different bundle, covering 33 countries, costs the same $3.00 and does.
Sort by price, or sort by country count, and the trap is the top result.
The five, as of 11 August 2026
| Countries | 1 GB | Includes France |
|---|---|---|
| 35 | $3.00 | No |
| 33 | $3.00 | Yes |
| 34 | $5.00 | Yes |
| 41 | $8.50 | Yes |
| 41 | $10.00 | Yes |
Someone flying to Paris, doing the sensible thing — cheapest plan, most countries — lands with a plan that does not work where they are standing.
The country count is the wrong number
Regional plans are marketed on coverage counts because a bigger number reads as a better deal. It is a poor way to choose one. What matters is whether the handful of countries you are going to are in the list, and a count cannot tell you that. A 35-country bundle missing the single most-visited country in Europe is worse, for most travellers, than a 12-country one that has it.
The two 41-country bundles above are a good illustration of how little the number carries. They are identical for forty of their forty-one entries. One includes Morocco; the other includes Guernsey. Sold on the count they are the same product. For an actual traveller they are the same product too — unless you happen to be going to Morocco.
What we changed
Our own listings used to name these bundles by their first three countries in whatever order the supplier’s feed listed them, which meant three different European plans all displayed as “Norway · Germany · Belgium + 30/31/32 countries”. Accurate, and useless.
They now lead with the countries a traveller recognises, and any bundle missing a major country its region would imply says so on the listing and on its own page:
WITHOUT FRANCE
There are exactly two such labels across the whole catalogue. The other is a Latin America bundle that leaves out the United States and Mexico — a gap a Brazilian buyer would reasonably assume was covered.
How to check any regional plan, anywhere
- Find the actual country list. If it is not on the page before payment, that is your answer.
- Look for your countries in it. Not the count. The countries.
- Check the neighbours you might day-trip to. Land borders are where this goes wrong: a plan covering Italy and not Switzerland is fine until the afternoon you take the train.
If you are visiting one or two countries, a single-country plan is usually cheaper than any regional bundle. Regional plans earn their price on a trip across three or more.