# eSIM for Bermuda

Viasimo's Bermuda eSIM starts at $5.99 for 500 MB over 1 day, running on One with 4G LTE where available. Plans last 1 to 180 days, arrive by email in minutes and install from your phone's settings, with no app.

Canonical page: https://viasimo.com/destinations/bermuda/

## Bermuda eSIM prices

| Plan | Data | Days | Price | Price per GB |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 500 MB, 1 day | 500 MB | 1 | $5.99 | $12.27 |
| 1 GB, 1 day | 1 GB | 1 | $9.00 | $9.00 |
| 2 GB, 1 day | 2 GB | 1 | $18.99 | $9.50 |
| 10 GB, 1 day | 10 GB | 1 | $63.99 | $6.40 |
| Unlimited, 3 days | Unlimited | 3 | $52.99 | - |
| Unlimited, 5 days | Unlimited | 5 | $81.99 | - |
| 1 GB, 7 days | 1 GB | 7 | $10.99 | $10.99 |
| Unlimited, 7 days | Unlimited | 7 | $119.99 | - |
| Unlimited, 10 days | Unlimited | 10 | $159.99 | - |
| 3 GB, 15 days | 3 GB | 15 | $25.00 | $8.33 |
| Unlimited, 15 days | Unlimited | 15 | $239.99 | - |
| 3 GB, 30 days | 3 GB | 30 | $26.00 | $8.67 |
| 5 GB, 30 days | 5 GB | 30 | $39.99 | $8.00 |
| 10 GB, 30 days | 10 GB | 30 | $79.99 | $8.00 |
| 20 GB, 30 days | 20 GB | 30 | $149.99 | $7.50 |
| Unlimited, 30 days | Unlimited | 30 | $439.99 | - |
| Unlimited, 60 days | Unlimited | 60 | $869.99 | - |
| Unlimited, 90 days | Unlimited | 90 | $1,309.99 | - |
| Unlimited, 180 days | Unlimited | 180 | $2,599.99 | - |

## Which networks does the Bermuda eSIM use?

- **One**: 4G LTE

Your eSIM picks one automatically; you do not choose or switch between them.

The operator list comes from the network partner that carries this eSIM. Verified October 30, 2026.

## eSIM Details

- **Data**: 500 MB – 20 GB or unlimited
- **Validity**: 1–180 days
- **Speed**: 4G LTE
- **Hotspot / tethering**: Supported on most devices
- **Activation**: Starts when you first connect in your destination
- **Speed management**: Roughly 2-3 GB per day at full speed, sometimes less depending on the local carrier, then reduced
- **Top-ups**: Add more data from your account, before the plan expires
- **Text messages (SMS)**: Data only: use an app for verification codes
- **Connects via**: United States
- **Unused validity**: 180 days before it must be installed

## Bermuda: what to know before you land

Source: https://viasimo.com/destinations/bermuda/#destination-guide · Researched October 2026 by Viasimo

Bermuda has three mobile networks, One Communications, Digicel and Paradise Mobile, serving about 65,000 connections, and your eSIM uses One, the largest. Data matters here because visitors cannot rent conventional cars: rides are booked through approved apps such as HITCH, Ride.bm and Journi, and bus and ferry passes are sold in the Shorelink app.

### Bermuda: quick facts

| Fact | Bermuda |
| --- | --- |
| Emergency number | 911 |
| Main airports | L.F. Wade International Airport (BDA) |
| Plug types | Type A, B (120V) |
| Currency | Bermudian dollar (BMD), pegged one-to-one with the US dollar |
| Apps worth having | Shorelink, HITCH Bermuda, Ride.bm, Journi, WhatsApp |

### One Communications, Digicel and Paradise Mobile

(Bermuda · https://viasimo.com/destinations/bermuda/#guide-one-communications-digicel-and-paradise-mobile)

Bermuda is a small market, but it is not a one-network island. GSMA figures put it at roughly 65,200 mobile connections at the start of 2025, split between three operators:

- **One Communications**, formerly CellOne and part of ATN International, is the incumbent with the largest subscriber base. This is the network your eSIM connects to, on 4G/LTE.
- **Digicel** is the long-standing second operator and switched on an island-wide 5G network in July 2025.
- **Paradise Mobile** is the newest entrant, launched with a 5G-first approach, and has won Ookla's fastest-5G award in Bermuda.

One Communications also launched 5G in late 2023, starting in Hamilton, but your eSIM uses its 4G/LTE layer. On an island of this size that is rarely a limitation: 4G handles maps, ride booking, video calls and photo uploads comfortably, and One's long head start means its footprint covers the parishes where visitors stay.

If you see a 5G icon on a friend's local phone and LTE on yours, that is expected. It reflects the network layer, not a weaker signal, and for typical holiday use the difference is not something you are likely to notice.

### Booking rides with HITCH, Ride.bm and Journi

(Bermuda · https://viasimo.com/destinations/bermuda/#guide-booking-rides-with-hitch-ride-bm-and-journi)

Bermuda legalised ride share with tight rules, and the tourism board's guide spells them out. Every ride share trip must be booked through an **approved digital dispatch app**. The three named are **HITCH Bermuda**, **Ride.bm** and **Journi**. You cannot flag down a ride share car on the street.

How it works in practice:

- Each request goes first to licensed taxis. Only if no taxi accepts does a licensed ride share driver get the job.
- Fares are estimated up front and paid by **credit or debit card in the app**. Ride share does not take cash, so if you want to pay cash, take a taxi.
- Ride share vehicles carry plates that include **RS** and must pass Transport Control Department inspections. Check the driver and car details in the app before getting in.
- Ride.bm and HITCH both list airport rides, though the tourism board points visitors to taxis for airport transfers.

Because your eSIM is data only, you have no local number for drivers to call. Use the apps' in-app messaging, and keep your home SIM on if you want to receive a call back from a taxi dispatcher.

If you would rather drive yourself, two-seat electric microcars are available to rent, with charging points across the island. Bermuda drives on the left.

### Shorelink passes and the Blue, Green, Pink and Orange ferries

(Bermuda · https://viasimo.com/destinations/bermuda/#guide-shorelink-passes-and-the-blue-green-pink-and-orange-ferries)

Bermuda's pink-and-blue buses and its ferries are the cheapest way around, and the **Shorelink app** lets you buy tokens, tickets and passes for both in one place. Without the app, passes are sold at the Visitor Services Centres, the Hamilton Bus Terminal and the Hamilton Ferry Terminal.

Things to know before you rely on them:

- Passes come in 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7-day all-zone versions for buses and ferries.
- If you pay cash on a bus, bring **exact change**: drivers do not give change.
- Ferry timetables switch between a summer schedule from April and a winter schedule from November, weekday and weekend times differ, and weather can cancel sailings. Check on the day.

The ferry network is colour-coded:

- **Blue**: Hamilton to the Royal Naval Dockyard at the West End.
- **Green**: other West End stops, including Rockaway and Watford Bridge.
- **Pink**: Hamilton to the central stops in Paget and Warwick.
- **Orange**: summer only, Dockyard to the Town of St. George.

On the water, your connection depends on how close you are to the shore. The crossing from Hamilton to Dockyard stays near land, but load your pass in Shorelink before you board rather than at the gangway.

### Sources for the Bermuda guide

- [Bermuda's mobile landscape and 5G – Operator Watch (September 2025)](https://www.operatorwatch.com/2025/09/bermudas-mobile-landscape-and-5g.html)
- [Bermuda ride share guide: apps, rules and new legislation – Go To Bermuda](https://www.gotobermuda.com/plan/inspiration/article/bermuda-ride-share-guide-apps-rules-new-legislation)
- [Bermuda transportation tips and tricks – Go To Bermuda](https://www.gotobermuda.com/plan/inspiration/article/bermuda-transportation-tips-tricks)
- [Bermuda going live with first 5G networks – BNamericas](https://bnamericas.com/en/news/bermuda-going-live-with-first-5g-networks)

## Seven days in Bermuda: Hamilton, St George's, Dockyard and the south shore

7-day itinerary · 7 days · Source: https://viasimo.com/destinations/bermuda/#itinerary

An unhurried island week using buses, ferries and ride apps instead of a hire car: Hamilton as a base, the UNESCO-listed town of St George's, the Royal Naval Dockyard, the pink-sand south shore beaches and the Railway Trail.

**When to go:** May to October is beach season, with the warmest sea in July and August; hurricane season runs June to November, so watch forecasts from August, and winter is mild but too cool for most swimmers.

### Day 1 in Bermuda: Arrive and settle into Hamilton

- **Base:** Hamilton
- **Getting there:** The airport is on St David's, about 25 to 30 minutes by road from Hamilton.
- **Plan:** From L.F. Wade International, take a taxi or a booked ride into Hamilton. Walk Front Street along the harbour, then climb to the Anglican Cathedral and the Bermuda National Gallery in City Hall. Buy a multi-day transport pass for buses and ferries at the Visitor Services Centre or in the Shorelink app, then watch the sunset from Barr's Bay Park on the waterfront.
- **Mobile signal:** One Communications 4G/LTE is solid in Hamilton and at the airport. Expect LTE rather than 5G with this eSIM.

### Day 2 in Bermuda: St George's, the old town

- **Base:** Hamilton
- **Getting there:** About 45 to 60 minutes by public bus from Hamilton.
- **Plan:** Take the bus east to St George's, founded in 1612 and a UNESCO World Heritage site with its fortifications. Start at King's Square, then visit St Peter's Church, one of the oldest Anglican churches in continuous use outside Britain, and the roofless Unfinished Church nearby. Walk north to Fort St Catherine and finish with a swim at Tobacco Bay before the bus back.
- **Mobile signal:** Good 4G in St George's town and along the main bus routes. Signal can weaken inside thick-walled forts and churches.

### Day 3 in Bermuda: Caves, the aquarium and Spittal Pond

- **Base:** Hamilton
- **Getting there:** The caves and Flatts are 20 to 30 minutes by bus from Hamilton; Spittal Pond is a short ride south.
- **Plan:** Head to Hamilton Parish for the Crystal and Fantasy Caves, where guided tours walk on pontoons over clear underground lakes. Continue to Flatts Village for the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo. In the afternoon walk the coastal trails of Spittal Pond Nature Reserve, the largest wildlife sanctuary on the island, looking out for Spanish Rock and migrating birds.
- **Mobile signal:** Expect no signal inside the caves. Coverage is good at Flatts and along South Road by Spittal Pond.

### Day 4 in Bermuda: The Royal Naval Dockyard

- **Base:** Hamilton
- **Getting there:** The direct Blue Route ferry from Hamilton takes about 20 minutes; buses take far longer.
- **Plan:** Take the Blue Route ferry across the Great Sound to the Royal Naval Dockyard at the island's western tip. Spend the morning at the National Museum of Bermuda in the Keep, a 19th-century fortress with shipwreck finds and harbour views. Browse the Clocktower building and craft market, then swim at Snorkel Park Beach or take the ferry back via Somerset.
- **Mobile signal:** Good 4G at Dockyard. On the ferry crossing the signal holds well across the Great Sound.

### Day 5 in Bermuda: South shore beaches

- **Base:** Hamilton
- **Getting there:** Route 7 buses run along South Road from Hamilton, about 20 to 30 minutes.
- **Plan:** Spend the day on the south shore in Southampton and Warwick. Start at Horseshoe Bay, then follow the coastal trail east through South Shore Park past Chaplin Bay and Stonehole Bay to Jobson's Cove and Warwick Long Bay. Come early on cruise-ship days, when Horseshoe Bay gets crowded, and bring water; there is little shade on the dunes.
- **Mobile signal:** 4G is generally good along South Road, though it can drop in the coves below the cliffs.

### Day 6 in Bermuda: Gibbs Hill and the Railway Trail

- **Base:** Hamilton
- **Plan:** Climb the 185 steps of Gibbs Hill Lighthouse in Southampton for a view over the whole island chain. Then walk or cycle a section of the Bermuda Railway Trail, the old railway line turned footpath, through Somerset towards Somerset Bridge, often called the world's smallest drawbridge. Return to Hamilton by bus or ferry from Watford Bridge or Somerset.
- **Mobile signal:** Good signal at the lighthouse. The Railway Trail runs through cuttings and woodland where 4G can dip, so download the trail map first.

### Day 7 in Bermuda: Botanical Gardens and departure

- **Base:** Hamilton
- **Getting there:** Allow 25 to 30 minutes from Paget to the airport by road.
- **Plan:** Spend a gentle last morning at the Bermuda Botanical Gardens in Paget, then visit Camden House or walk to nearby Elbow Beach for a final swim. If time allows before your flight, stop at Clearwater Beach on Cooper's Island Nature Reserve near the airport, a quieter stretch of sand and a good spot for snorkelling.
- **Mobile signal:** Solid 4G in Paget and at the airport. Download boarding passes before you leave, as terminal wifi can be busy.

### Staying connected on this Bermuda route

- Visitors cannot hire conventional cars, so install HITCH, Ride.bm or Journi before landing; you need data at pickup.
- Buy bus and ferry passes in the Shorelink app and save them offline in case you lose signal on the water.
- Your eSIM uses One Communications on 4G/LTE, so you will see LTE even where other Bermudian networks offer 5G.

### Sources for the Bermuda itinerary

- [Go To Bermuda (official tourism site)](https://www.gotobermuda.com/)
- [UNESCO: Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications](https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/983)
- [GOV.UK foreign travel advice: Bermuda](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/bermuda)
- [Visit Bermuda: transportation tips](https://www.gotobermuda.com/inspiration/article/bermuda-transportation-tips-tricks)

## About this eSIM

Bermuda is roughly 34 square kilometres of connected islands, which means one mobile network reaches almost everywhere you will actually stand. The catch is that visitors cannot rent a car here, so your day runs on bus timetables, ferry schedules, dispatched taxis and the occasional rented scooter, and all of that lives on your phone. An eSIM is less about avoiding roaming charges and more about not being the person standing at a bus stop in Warwick with no idea when the next number 7 is due.

### Getting online when you land

Flights arrive at L.F. Wade International Airport on St. David's Island, at the far eastern end of the chain, and the drive west to Hamilton or the South Shore hotels takes longer than the map suggests because the speed limit is low and the roads are narrow. Add the eSIM to your phone while you still have wifi at home, leave it switched off, then enable it once the cabin doors open. By the time you have cleared arrivals your phone should be registered and you can pull up your accommodation's exact parish before you get in a taxi. Cruise passengers docking at the Royal Naval Dockyard, Hamilton or St. George's can do exactly the same thing at the rail as the ship ties up, which beats waiting for the ship's own signal to release.

### The networks you'll be on

Bermuda is a single small market, and your handset will attach to a local island network on its own without you choosing anything from a list. There is no useful operator hunting to do here in the way there is in a big country with three or four competing footprints; whatever the island runs is what you get, and your status bar will show the generation your phone negotiated. Practically, that means treat data as reliable and unremarkable in the settled parishes rather than as something you tune. If your phone ever sits on no service for more than a minute or two, toggling airplane mode fixes it far more often than fiddling with manual network selection does.

### Where coverage holds, and where it thins

Bermuda's population is packed along a thin ribbon, so Hamilton, the length of Middle Road and South Road, the hotel strip around Southampton and Warwick, St. George's in the east and the Dockyard in the west are all comfortably covered. What drops out is water and rock. Take a boat across the Great Sound, run out to the reef line for a dive, or join a wreck trip and the signal fades as the land falls behind you. The same happens underground in the limestone cave systems near Bailey's Bay, and it can get patchy in the deep green tangle around Walsingham. None of this is a coverage failure; it is just what happens when a small island stops and the Atlantic starts.

### What you'll actually use data for here

Public transport is the big one. Bus and ferry routes are zone-based and the timetables change by day of the week, so most visitors end up checking departures several times a day, especially on Sundays when service thins. After that it is taxi dispatch, since you cannot summon a cab by standing on a road here the way you would in a city, and restaurant reservations, which fill up fast in high season. Weather is the other constant: the island sits in the Atlantic hurricane belt, and squalls can turn a beach afternoon into an indoor one with very little warning, so people check radar habitually. Then the ordinary things, uploading pink sand photos from Horseshoe Bay, splitting the bill, and calling home across time zones.

### Before you fly

Confirm your phone is eSIM capable and carrier unlocked, then install the profile at home rather than at the gate, because you need a working connection to download it. Label it clearly in your settings so you can tell it apart from your home line, and set your home SIM to voice only so it does not quietly pick up data in the background. Download an offline map of the whole island; it is small enough that the file is trivial and it covers you on boat trips. Save your hotel's parish and phone number as a screenshot, note the number of the bus route serving your area, and keep a power bank in your day bag, because scooter days and beach days both end with a flat battery more often than you would expect.

## Frequently asked questions

### Does an eSIM work in Bermuda?

Yes. Your Bermuda eSIM connects automatically the moment you arrive, with no roaming fees and nothing to set up at the airport. The host networks it can use are One. Coverage runs on 4G LTE. There is no 5G on our host network in Bermuda yet.

### Do I get 5G in Bermuda?

No. One do not yet offer 5G to visitors in Bermuda, so your eSIM connects over 4G LTE or slower. Anyone claiming 5G for this destination is quoting a spec sheet, not the network you will actually get.

### Does Uber work in Bermuda?

Bermuda's tourism board does not list Uber. Ride share there must be booked through an approved dispatch app, and the three it names are HITCH Bermuda, Ride.bm and Journi. Licensed taxis get first refusal on each request, fares are paid by card in the app, and ride share drivers do not accept cash.

### How many mobile networks are there in Bermuda?

Three: One Communications, the incumbent with the largest subscriber base; Digicel, which launched island-wide 5G in July 2025; and Paradise Mobile, the newest operator, which built a 5G-first network. Between them they serve about 65,000 connections. A travel eSIM that uses One connects to the largest and longest-established network.

### Will I get 5G in Bermuda with a travel eSIM?

All three Bermudian networks now run 5G, but whether you see it depends on your plan. An eSIM that connects to One Communications on 4G/LTE will show LTE even where 5G is available. On an island this small, 4G is enough for maps, ride apps, bus and ferry tickets and video calls.

### How do I buy a bus or ferry pass in Bermuda?

The quickest way is the Shorelink app, which sells tokens, tickets and 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7-day all-zone passes for both buses and ferries. You can also buy them at Visitor Services Centres and the Hamilton bus and ferry terminals. If you pay cash on a bus, bring exact change, because drivers do not give change.

### How much data do I need for 7 days in Bermuda?

For 7 days in Bermuda, Viasimo sells 1 GB for $10.99 and unlimited data for $119.99. Our sizing recommendation, not a measurement: maps, messaging and the occasional lookup, about 1 GB a week; maps, social, photos and some browsing, about 3 to 7 GB a week. The data calculator on this site works it out from how you actually use your phone.

## Information and verification

- **Prices and plans**: Every price and allowance on this page is read from the live catalog, not typed in. Verified October 30, 2026.
- **Host networks**: The operator list comes from the network partner that carries this eSIM. Verified October 30, 2026.