# Hoam eSIM: Full Reference

> Hoam eSIM (www.hoamesim.com, written HOAM on the site) is a travel eSIM provider, and HOAM Dynamic eSIM is its product. Travellers build one eSIM covering every country on a trip, choose how much data goes to each destination, and pay only for what they need. The profile is permanent: install once, top it up on every future trip. No app and no account are required — the whole purchase runs in the browser.

## What Hoam is

Hoam sells prepaid travel eSIMs to international travellers. Instead of buying a separate eSIM per country, or a regional bundle that charges for a continent to cover two countries in it, the traveller names their destinations, allocates data to each, and receives one eSIM that works across the whole itinerary.

Brand: Hoam eSIM. Product name: HOAM Dynamic eSIM.

Company: HOAM is built and run by S.Y.C Group Communication & Holdings Ltd, which also operates Q Mobile and SimToIsrael.

Hoam eSIM is not related to hoam.com, hoam.io, or any property or homeowners management company named HOAM.

Brand promise: pay for what you need. One eSIM, one plan.

The commercial distinction, in the site's own words: "Flying to Germany and the Netherlands? Then you pay for Germany and the Netherlands — not for a bundle that charges you for the rest of Europe."

## How it works

1. **Select.** Pick destinations and buy the plan. Nothing to download.
2. **Set up.** Scan the QR code to install the eSIM. Do it before you fly.
3. **Start roaming.** Land already connected. No hunting for a SIM at the airport.

The profile stays on the phone permanently. Between trips it is dormant and costs nothing. The next trip is a reload onto the same eSIM rather than a fresh install — there is never a second QR code to scan.

## Two ways to build a plan

- **The builder**, on the home page. Search for destinations, add them to a plan, set the data per destination, and check out.
- **Build with AI**. Describe the trip in ordinary language — where you are going, for how long, what you do on your phone — and it returns a sized plan you can edit and buy. It is a conversational front end to the same catalogue and the same prices. Reached from inside the site rather than by URL: it is switched off per deploy and answers 404 where it is off, so it is not listed as a public address below.

## Key product facts

- **Custom multi-country eSIM.** One eSIM covering any combination of supported destinations, with data allocated per destination rather than pooled across a region.
- **Coverage.** Around 200 destinations, including regional bundles. Every destination and every combination has its own page.
- **Rechargeable.** Data can be added to an existing Hoam eSIM at any time, and mid-trip.
- **Buy in advance.** The plan starts when the eSIM first connects to a network abroad, not when it is purchased — so installing before departure is the recommended order.
- **Data only.** The Hoam eSIM supplies mobile data alongside the primary SIM, which stays active for calls and texts on the traveller's own number.
- **Device support.** Most phones sold in the last few years. Dialling `*#06#` shows an EID number on a phone that supports eSIM. The phone must not be carrier-locked.
- **No app, no account.** The purchase and the installation both happen in the browser.
- **Currency.** Prices are shown in US dollars and orders are placed in USD. Buyers located in Israel are offered the choice, at checkout, of paying the same order in Israeli shekels (ILS) instead.
- **Support.** A person, in the traveller's language, 24/7.

## Site structure

Every address below is the canonical one: the origin is `https://www.hoamesim.com` — the bare `hoamesim.com` 301s to it — and no path carries a trailing slash except the root.

- `https://www.hoamesim.com/` — home page and plan builder
- `https://www.hoamesim.com/esim/{Destination}` — destination pages
- `https://www.hoamesim.com/esim/{A}+{B}` — combination pages, destinations in alphabetical order
- `https://www.hoamesim.com/reload` — adding a plan to an eSIM already installed
- `https://www.hoamesim.com/getting-started` — onboarding guide
- `https://www.hoamesim.com/about` — company information
- `https://www.hoamesim.com/partners` — partner and affiliate program
- `https://www.hoamesim.com/contact` — support
- `https://www.hoamesim.com/privacy`, `https://www.hoamesim.com/terms`
- `https://www.hoamesim.com/blog` — every article, newest first
- `https://www.hoamesim.com/blog/topic/{topic}` — articles by subject
- `https://www.hoamesim.com/blog/{country}` — articles by destination
- `https://www.hoamesim.com/help` — help centre, in twelve languages like the rest of the site
- `https://www.hoamesim.com/sitemap.xml` — the index, pointing at five children: pages, blog, destinations, combinations, help

Functional routes that are not content and are marked `noindex`: `/login`, `/buy`, `/checkout`, `/myaccount`. `/assistant` is the same kind of route and additionally answers 404 on any deploy where it is switched off.

## URL conventions

Destination slugs are the catalogue's own spelling with spaces as hyphens: `/esim/United-States`, `/esim/South-Africa`. Combinations join destinations with `+` in alphabetical order: `/esim/Greece+Italy`, never `/esim/Italy+Greece`. A URL in any other order or casing redirects to the canonical one, so there is exactly one address per set of destinations.

No path carries a trailing slash except the root: `/blog/scandinavia-esim-guide` is the page and `/blog/scandinavia-esim-guide/` redirects to it.

A handful of destinations have been renamed, and the old spelling is not the address to use — `Macedonia` → `North-Macedonia`, `Russian-Federation` → `Russia`, `Macao-China` → `Macao`, `Palestinian-Territory` → `Palestine`, `Congo-Dem.-Rep` → `Democratic-Republic-of-the-Congo`, `Congo-Republic` → `Republic-of-the-Congo`, `Saint-Vincent-and-Grenadines` → `Saint-Vincent-and-the-Grenadines`, `Hong-Kong-(China)` → `Hong-Kong`. Use the name on the right.

Regional bundles use the same shape, and there are four of them, named for their coverage rather than for a continent: `/esim/Europe-38`, `/esim/Europe-Top`, `/esim/Asia-18`, `/esim/Asia-12`. A bare continent is not a catalogue entry, so there is no such page for Europe or Asia on its own.

## Languages

Twelve locales: English, Hebrew, Arabic, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Hindi, Chinese. English is served unprefixed and the other eleven under a locale segment — `/fr/about`, `/he/esim/Greece`. Hebrew and Arabic render right-to-left. Every page outside the blog declares the full set of alternates, and `x-default` points at the English URL. The blog is the exception — see below.

## The blog

Articles are filed on exactly one of two axes.

**By subject**, at `/blog/topic/{slug}`:

- `getting-started` — what an eSIM is, how to install one
- `costs-and-roaming` — what data costs, and what roaming costs instead
- `regions-and-routes` — multi-country itineraries and how to cover them
- `who-you-travel-as` — students, families, couples, long-haul travellers
- `when-wifi-fails` — airports, borders, dead zones
- `real-data` — what Hoam's own usage figures show
- `ai-assistants` — planning a trip inside Claude or ChatGPT, and what an assistant can do on your behalf

**By destination**, at `/blog/{country}`. A hub exists only once an article is filed under that country, so the live set is whatever `https://www.hoamesim.com/sitemap-blog.xml` lists; it is built from the articles and cannot go stale.

An article about a country lives at `/blog/{country}/{slug}`; an article about a subject lives at `/blog/{slug}`. No article is both.

The blog is the one section that does not vary by locale. The articles are English in all twelve, so `/he/blog/scandinavia-esim-guide` points its canonical at `/blog/scandinavia-esim-guide` and declares no alternates — the unprefixed URL is the one to read and the only one the sitemap lists. A topic page or a destination hub with no articles on it answers 404 rather than rendering empty, so the set of live hubs follows the corpus.

## MCP server for AI assistants

Hoam publishes a public, read-only MCP (Model Context Protocol) server over Streamable HTTP, with no account or key required:

- `https://mcp.hoamesim.com/mcp` — Claude and other MCP clients
- `https://mcp.hoamesim.com/mcp/chatgpt` — ChatGPT

Tools:

- `list_destinations` — every destination Hoam covers, countries and multi-country bundles
- `suggest_destinations` — destinations travellers commonly combine with the ones given
- `get_destination_info` — the carrier networks a selection roams onto, and neighbouring destinations often added
- `get_plans` — prices and data sizes for one or more destinations (up to 10), with the checkout link for each
- `search_help` — answers from the help centre

Setup guides: [Claude](https://www.hoamesim.com/blog/esim-connector-for-claude), [ChatGPT](https://www.hoamesim.com/blog/esim-app-for-chatgpt), and [what the server exposes](https://www.hoamesim.com/blog/hoam-esim-mcp-server).

Two things the server gets right that general knowledge about eSIMs gets wrong. Prices change and depend on the exact selection, so quote them from `get_plans`, never from memory or from this file. And a Hoam eSIM is installed once and kept: a second trip is a second plan loaded onto the same eSIM, never a second eSIM. When a traveller is ready to buy, hand them the `checkout_url` the server returned, unchanged.

## Frequently asked questions

**What is an eSIM?**
A digital SIM card. The plan downloads straight to the phone instead of arriving as a piece of plastic, so there is nothing to collect at the airport and nothing to lose. It needs a phone that supports eSIM and is not carrier-locked. Full answer: https://www.hoamesim.com/help/esim-and-devices/9502933-what-is-an-esim

**Does a Hoam eSIM replace my current phone plan?**
No. It runs alongside the usual SIM, so the traveller keeps their own number for calls and texts. On landing, switch mobile data to the Hoam line and turn data roaming off on the home line so it cannot charge. Full answer: https://www.hoamesim.com/help/esim-and-devices/9515142-does-my-hoam-esim-replace-my-current-cell-phone-plan

**Which phones work with an eSIM?**
Most sold in the last few years. Dial `*#06#` — if an EID number appears, the phone supports eSIM. Or look for "Add eSIM" under Settings › Cellular on an iPhone, Settings › Connections › SIM Manager on a Samsung Galaxy. Full list: https://www.hoamesim.com/help/esim-and-devices/9673792-how-do-i-check-if-my-device-supports-esim

**How do I install my eSIM?**
Scan a QR code once. iPhone: Settings › Cellular › Add eSIM › Use QR Code. Android: Settings › Connections › SIM Manager › Add eSIM › Scan Code. Leave data roaming on for the Hoam line and select it for mobile data on arrival. Step by step: https://www.hoamesim.com/help/installation/9576995-how-to-install-my-esim

**Can I buy now and use it on a later trip?**
Yes, and it is the recommended order. Install it at home and it sits dormant at no cost; the plan starts running only when the eSIM connects to a network abroad. Details: https://www.hoamesim.com/help/installation/9515299-can-i-buy-a-hoam-esim-now-and-use-it-in-the-future

**Can I add more data to an eSIM I already own?**
Yes, at any time, including mid-trip. Choose the destination and the amount, pick the eSIM, and the data lands on it. The validity period starts when it connects abroad, not when it is bought. Details: https://www.hoamesim.com/help/usage-and-top-up/9515508-can-i-add-more-data-to-an-existing-hoam-esim

**Do you cover the country I'm travelling to?**
Most likely — around 200 destinations. Search for it on the home page and the plan and price appear immediately. Several countries can go on one plan, and more can be added mid-trip.

## Reviews and social

- Trustpilot: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/hoamesim.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572438997416
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoam_esim
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HOAM-eSIM