Data for Kraków, Warsaw, Gdańsk and the Tatras, installed before you fly. Poland is on the Europe plan, so one eSIM covers the whole line from the Baltic to the mountains — pierogi stops included — and carries on over the ridge into Slovakia or west to Berlin.
The Poland plan covers Poland only.
The same 10 GB in a package that keeps working past Poland.
38 other countries share the package with Poland. A few of them:
What's included, when it starts, and how to get connected.
Poland's fast trains run north to south, and the places a first trip needs are strung along the line. With two more days, add Wrocław and its thousand-odd bronze dwarfs. The line below is an illustration, not a map.
1Brick gables along the Motława, the 15th-century crane that was the largest port crane in medieval Europe, and the carved stone terraces of Mariacka Street. Sopot, a short hop on the SKM commuter train, has Europe's longest wooden pier at 511 metres. The Pendolino to Warsaw takes under three hours.
2An Old Town rebuilt almost from nothing after 1944, partly from Bellotto's 18th-century paintings, and listed by UNESCO for exactly that. Eat lunch at a milk bar. Then ride up to the 30th-floor terrace of the Palace of Culture: locals say it has the best view in Warsaw, because it is the one place you cannot see the palace.
3The Main Market Square, Wawel and the cafés of Kazimierz, with the Wieliczka salt mine as a half-day out. Give Auschwitz-Birkenau a whole day of its own: entry is free but only with a named pass booked online, and a guide should be reserved at least two months ahead.
4A couple of hours south by train or bus. Walk the road to Morskie Oko or book the national park's e-bus, ride the cable car up Kasprowy Wierch to the Slovak border, and buy oscypek, the smoked sheep's cheese — the real one is only made from late April to early October. Park entry is a small fee, payable online.
How the plan fits this route
Poland is on the Europe plan, so one package covers the whole line — the Pendolino, the cities and the Tatra trails — plus the Slovak side of the ridge, which is on the same plan. Coverage is strong in the cities and along the main railway lines and thins in the high valleys, as it does for everyone. With an EU SIM you roam like at home here anyway.
The green frog is everywhere: by the chain's own count, 18 million people live within 500 metres of a Żabka. Hot dogs, coffee, a snack for the train — and many open on Sundays, when nearly everything else is shut. When Warsaw's new Museum of Modern Art opened in 2024, the memes asked whether the white box was an Xbox, a washing machine or a Żabka.
Kraków was the capital until 1596, when the king moved his court to Warsaw, and the two have been comparing notes ever since. Kraków has the medieval square and the castle; Warsaw, rebuilt from rubble, has the restaurants, the river beaches and the nightlife. Warsaw even has a word for newcomers: słoiki, 'jars', for the home cooking they carry back after a weekend at their parents'.
Poland is in the EU but pays in złoty (PLN). Contactless cards and phones work almost everywhere, down to a coffee; when a card machine offers to charge you in your home currency, say no. Most shops close on Sundays under a law in force since 2018, apart from a handful of trading Sundays a year. Petrol stations and owner-run shops, Żabka among them, are the exceptions.
Since 2023 cars have driven the state-run motorways free. Three privately run sections still charge: the A2 west of Konin towards the German border, the A4 between Katowice and Kraków, and the A1 from Gdańsk to Toruń. Pay at the booths or with a toll-payment app. The e-TOLL system you may have read about now mostly matters for lorries.
A bar mleczny is a self-service canteen, a Polish institution for more than a century, where pierogi, soups and pancakes stay cheap because the state still subsidises the meals. Order at the counter, collect the tray, take the plate back. Students and pensioners are the regulars, and nobody minds tourists — as long as they know what they want by the time they reach the till.
Answers about data, coverage and setup for Poland.
Mostly. Coverage is good in Zakopane and the valleys and thins on the high trails and behind the ridges, as it does for everyone, so download the map offline before a hike. If the trail crosses into Slovakia, the phone moves to a Slovak network — Slovakia is on the Europe plan too, so it is the same package. Your home SIM can still call 112.
Berlin, Prague, Bratislava and Vilnius, yes: Germany, Czechia, Slovakia and Lithuania are on the Europe plan, so the package carries on across those borders with the same allowance. Ukraine and Belarus are not on the plan, so the eSIM stops working at those borders; for the Lviv leg of a trip you will need another way to get data.
Probably not for Poland alone: roam-like-at-home applies, within your plan's fair-use allowance. The package is for everyone else — visitors from the UK, the US, Canada, Switzerland or Türkiye, whose home tariffs usually charge extra in the EU — and for EU travellers with a small allowance, or a route that leaves the EU.
