Data for Sarajevo, Mostar and the road between them, installed before you arrive. Bosnia and Herzegovina is outside the EU roaming zone and on the Balkans plan and the Europe plan, so the day trip from Dubrovnik or the drive on to Belgrade stays on one eSIM.
The Bosnia and Herzegovina plan covers Bosnia and Herzegovina only.
The same 10 GB in a package that keeps working past Bosnia and Herzegovina.
10 other countries share the package with Bosnia and Herzegovina. A few of them:
What's included, when it starts, and how to get connected.
Roam-like-at-home stops at the Croatian border, and the drive from Split or Dubrovnik to Mostar crosses it. A package that covers both sides of the line is the simple answer; the Balkans plan and the Europe plan both do, and both carry on into Montenegro and Serbia.
Sarajevo to Mostar is two and a half hours through the Neretva canyon by road, or by the daily train, which is one of the best rail views in Europe and runs to a timetable worth checking twice. Buses link everything else. A hire car from Croatia needs the green card and written permission to cross; ask when you book.
The KM is pegged at about two to the euro, so the maths is easy. Euros are sometimes accepted in tourist spots at a round rate; the mark is better. Cards work in Sarajevo and Mostar’s hotels and larger restaurants; ćevabdžinice, markets, buses and most of the countryside are cash. ATMs are everywhere in the cities.
The bridge and the old bazaar fill with day trippers from the coast between eleven and four in summer — stay the night and have the town at dusk. Sarajevo is pleasant from April to October, with the film festival in August; winter brings snow and the ski resorts at Jahorina and Bjelašnica, half an hour from the city.
Sarajevo’s siege and Mostar’s war are within living memory and visible on the buildings. Museums tell it well; people will too, if you ask rather than assume. Coffee is Bosnian, served in a džezva, and drunk slowly.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is on the Balkans plan and on the Europe plan. Either covers Sarajevo, Mostar and the road between; the difference is what happens next. The Balkans plan carries on into Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria; the Europe plan carries on into Croatia and the EU. The Dubrovnik–Mostar–Sarajevo–Belgrade route fits either, since Croatia and Serbia are on both.
Coverage follows the local networks: strong in the cities and towns, good on the main roads, and thin in the mountains and the canyons between them, as it is for everyone. Download the route offline before the Neretva drive.
Answers about data, coverage and setup for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
No. Bosnia is outside the EU and the EEA, so roam-like-at-home does not apply and a European SIM charges its non-EU rate, capped by an agreement between the EU and the Western Balkan operators rather than free. The package on this page covers Bosnia and, on the Balkans plan, the whole region; on the Europe plan, Croatia and the EU as well.
Yes, on either package. Croatia and Bosnia are both on the Balkans plan and on the Europe plan, so the drive to Mostar carries on with the same allowance and the phone picks up a Bosnian partner network a minute or two after the border. Stay the night if you can — the town is a different place after the coaches leave.
Cards work in hotels, larger restaurants and shops in Sarajevo and Mostar; much of the rest of the country is cash in convertible marks, pegged at about two to the euro. The phone’s job is the map, the bus times, the translation and the booking — download the route offline before a mountain drive, and keep small notes for the ćevapi.
