Data for Punta Cana, Santo Domingo and Samaná, installed before you fly. The Dominican Republic is on the Americas plan, so the phone works from the palm-thatched airport to the Saona catamaran, and past the resort gate, where the Wi-Fi gives up.
The Dominican Republic plan covers Dominican Republic only.
The same 10 GB in a package that keeps working past Dominican Republic.
23 other countries share the package with Dominican Republic. A few of them:
What's included, when it starts, and how to get connected.
Punta Cana International handles most of the country’s air arrivals, under roofs of palm thatch, about 20 km from the resorts of Bávaro. The first hour is easier with the e-Ticket done at home and the phone working before the taxi rank.
Install your onesim eSIM over Wi-Fi and leave the line switched off until you land. Then fill in the e-Ticket, the free entry and exit form at eticket.migracion.gob.do: one form covers up to seven people travelling together and produces one QR code, which the airline asks for at check-in. Staying in a rental? Ask the host for the full address, down to the sector.
Once the plane is on the ground, open Settings → Mobile Data, choose the onesim line for mobile data and turn data roaming on for that line only; that first connection starts the package. Your home SIM stays in the phone with its own data roaming off, so calls and texts to your usual number still arrive.
Authorised taxis wait at arrivals and work to the airport’s published rates, so confirm the fare before you get in. Uber has marked pick-up points for UberX and Uber Select at both terminals, and the app needs nothing but data. Many resort packages already include a transfer: check yours before paying twice, and keep the hotel’s address on screen for the driver.
The e-Ticket covers the flight out as well, so keep the departure QR code on your phone; a screenshot works without signal. The US$20 departure tax is already in your fare. Stayed more than 30 days? A fee on a sliding scale applies, paid online before you leave or at the airport’s immigration desk after security.
The Dominican Republic reached the semi-final of the 2026 World Baseball Classic unbeaten, then lost 2–1 to the United States when a full-count slider to Geraldo Perdomo, below the zone by ESPN’s reading, was called strike three to end the game. Baseball is the national obsession, and the winter league runs from mid-October into January: Santo Domingo’s Estadio Quisqueya is where the argument continues.
Two and a half hours west by motorway, the Ciudad Colonial is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, with the oldest cathedral, the first paved street, Calle Las Damas, and the oldest European fortress in the New World. Coppola shot the Havana scenes of The Godfather Part II here. A day trip works; a night in the old town works better.
The national breakfast is mashed green plantain with pickled red onion, usually with fried salami, cheese and eggs: los tres golpes, the three hits. The favourite story behind the name has a US soldier of the 1916–1924 occupation tasting it and saying ‘man, good’. No document confirms it. The rival theory, a Congolese word for mashed roots, has no dictionary behind it either.
Humpback whales gather in Samaná Bay from January to March, and December to early March brings the most comfortable weather. Summer is sargassum season: 2025 was the record year for the brown seaweed across the Caribbean, and 2026 is on course to be at least the second biggest, easing since August. The University of South Florida publishes a monthly outlook worth reading before you book a beach.
Dominicans are warm with strangers: being called mi amor or cariño in a shop is simply how people talk, as the tourism ministry itself points out. Restaurant bills already add a 10% service charge and 18% ITBIS tax; the custom is to leave another 10% for the server, while taxi drivers do not expect a tip. And pack something smart: people dress up to go out.
Answers about data, coverage and setup for Dominican Republic.
No. Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola but is not on the Americas plan, so the package works on the Dominican side only, and near the border a phone that latches onto a Haitian network loses data. The question is mostly theoretical: the UK Foreign Office advises against all travel to Haiti and describes the land border as closed. For a second island on the same package, Jamaica, the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos are on the list.
By the pool, perhaps not. The Wi-Fi stops at the resort gate, though, and the holiday rarely does: the transfer from the airport, the boat to Saona, the Uber into town, the WhatsApp to a driver waiting somewhere in the car park. Hotspot is allowed on every package, so one phone can share its data with the family. Install at home and switch the onesim line on when you land. Guide: how much data you actually need
In the cities, the resort areas and along the main highways, coverage is good. Out on the water to Saona and Catalina, in the hills around Jarabacoa and Constanza, and on the trail up Pico Duarte, the Caribbean’s highest peak at 3,101 metres, it comes and goes, as it would on any SIM. Download maps and your excursion’s pickup details before you set off.
