5 reasons a €3,000 phone bill could be waiting for you after your Bali holiday, and how to avoid it

1. Bali is on the other side of the world, and you'll notice that on your bill

Sound familiar? You land, switch on your phone, and moments later a text arrives from your provider: "Welcome to Indonesia. Using mobile data costs …"

In Spain or Italy you can usually use your phone much like at home, because those countries are covered by EU roaming rules. Indonesia isn't just 12,000 kilometres away, it's also outside any EU rules. Your mobile contract from home doesn't apply there, and every bit of internet costs extra. Often you're even billed per megabyte, and a single reel from the rice fields can easily be several hundred megabytes.

The dangerous part: your phone uses internet even when you're not doing anything. Apps download updates in the background, photos get pushed to the cloud, messages come in. If you don't switch off roaming, the roaming bill just keeps ticking. Some holidaymakers have come home after two weeks with a bill of up to €3,000.

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2. At Denpasar airport you pay more as a tourist and get less

Picture this: you've just landed after a twelve-hour flight, tired and sweaty, and you're standing at the little SIM card counter in the arrivals hall. The seller barely speaks English, you only understand half of it, and all you really want is to get in a taxi and to your accommodation. Then he names a price, and you say yes, because you've no idea what a SIM card in Bali normally costs.

That's exactly what a lot of these shops count on. Tourists don't know the prices, so they pay more than locals and often only get a few gigabytes for it. On top of that, you have to show your passport and register to get an Indonesian SIM card.

With our easysimy eSIM you don't pay that tourist mark-up. You buy the eSIM in our shop before you fly, nice and easy, at a fixed price you know in advance. When you land in Bali, the eSIM connects itself to the Indonesian networks of 3 and Indosat, just like a SIM card you bought in Bali would. No queueing, no haggling, and no trusting someone you can't understand.

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3. In Bali, unlimited internet means one thing above all: relaxing

You've bought 30 gigabytes locally and think: "That's easily enough for two weeks." Three days later you get the message that your data has run out. From then on you're doing the maths with every photo, wondering whether the data will last, and the first thing you do in every café is ask for the Wi-Fi password.

But in Bali you need your internet all the time, and on the go. You book a scooter driver with Gojek or Grab instead of haggling. You keep Google Maps running while you ride through the rice fields of Ubud. You translate the menu at the warung with your phone. In the evening you send the sunset photos from Uluwatu back home, and because of the seven-hour time difference you call the family while you're lying on the beach.

With the easysimy eSIM, every Indonesia plan comes with unlimited internet. There's no data allowance that can run out, and no reason to hold back on anything. You just do whatever you fancy, and your phone keeps up. And if your partner or your kids want to get online too, you switch on a hotspot and share your unlimited internet.

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Plans for 3, 5, 7, 10, 15 or 30 days mean you get exactly the length your holiday has. And whichever length you pick: the internet is unlimited on every plan.

4. With an Indonesian SIM card you're suddenly out of reach

Has this ever happened to you? You pop an Indonesian SIM card into your phone and put your own card in the villa safe. Suddenly WhatsApp asks whether you want to change your number. Your family messages you, and nothing gets through, because they can't reach you any more. With a seven-hour time difference, that doesn't exactly ease the worries back home.

That happens because a normal SIM card only has one slot in your phone. Put a new one in and the old one is out, and with the old card goes your own number.

The easysimy eSIM works differently. It isn't a piece of plastic, it arrives by email on your phone and is simply saved alongside. Your own SIM card stays in, your own number stays, WhatsApp stays. The easysimy eSIM only takes care of the internet, your calls and messages carry on as always.

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5. You're already online the moment you step off the plane

Honestly: after a twelve-hour flight there's only one thing you want, and that's to get out of the airport. Instead you're stuck in the queue at the SIM card counter. Show your passport, fill in a form, wait. Your driver is waiting outside, and you're waiting inside.

With the easysimy eSIM it's as simple as this: you order the eSIM from us and immediately get an email with a QR code. You scan the QR code at home with your phone, which takes about five minutes. After that there's nothing more to do. The eSIM simply waits on your phone until you land in Bali.

Once you've landed, you switch off flight mode. Your phone then connects to the Indonesian network by itself, and you're online. Book a driver, message your accommodation, send a "landed safely" back home, all while you're still in the arrivals hall. Only at that moment does the eSIM's validity start, not when you buy it. So you can set the eSIM up days or weeks before your holiday, completely stress-free.

And if the eSIM ever doesn't work: easysimy is a German company. You get help around the clock, even mid-holiday and despite the time difference. If the easysimy eSIM doesn't work or isn't compatible with your phone, you get your money back within 30 days.