The short answer
You hold an Orange Polska SIM and you are flying to Istanbul, Antalya or Cappadocia. I read Orange's roaming page of 1 November 2026, priced the five travel eSIM brands on 25 October and added Ringo Light, for a long weekend, a fortnight and a month. Orange keeps your number and costs nothing to install, but for two weeks or more I would buy Ringo Light.
Unlimited data at full speed, 2 weeks at $16.99 or 30 days at $26.99, nothing renews, and 3 days at $8.99. Airalo asks $24.50 for a week and $69 for the month.
If maps and messages are enough: 10 GB for 30 days at $13, on sale on its own site against $15 regular, and 20 GB at $20.
10 GB for 30 days at $13 on Türk Telekom and Turkcell. Its app and site do not open from inside Turkey, so install it at home in Poland.
You buy days, not gigabytes, with no daily cap stated for your own phone. A week is $27.50, and sharing the connection is limited to 1 GB a day.
Prices read on 25 October 2026: Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi, Orange Polska, Ringo Light, European Central Bank on their own sites or listings, Ringo Light from its catalogue. All in US dollars unless stated. Treat every number as a snapshot.
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The prices, charted
US dollars, 25 October 2026. Ringo Light sells 2 weeks and Nomad 5 days, so those are the nearest lengths.
The 30-day unlimited plan at each brand. Nomad sells no 30-day unlimited for Turkey. Ringo Light is unlimited data at full speed.
The bucket most people buy for a two-week holiday. Holafly sells no buckets. Ringo Light sells no bucket either: its 2 weeks is unlimited and lasts 2 weeks, not 30 days.
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Get Ringo Light for Turkey, from $8.99.
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- 3 days $8.99
- 2 weeks $16.99
- 30 days $26.99
- 90 days $36.99
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What to see in Turkey, and what your phone needs for it
Eight places most first trips to Turkey include, from Istanbul to Cappadocia and the Aegean coast, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Roaming or eSIM, the phone does the same job.
Roam with Orange Polska, or buy an eSIM
Turkey is outside the EU, and Orange Polska's roaming page lists it for both packs. I read the page on 1 November 2026. Pakiet Roamingowy GO 10 GB is 79 zł (about $20) for 10 GB valid 15 days. Bezpieczny Roaming is 15 zł (about $4) for 1 GB a day, charged only on a day when data starts abroad. That makes three days 45 zł (about $11) and fourteen days 210 zł (about $53). The page shows no monthly plan, so a month is two GO packs, 158 zł (about $40).
Orange Polska asks about $20 for 15 days and about $40 for a month on its GO packs, against Ringo Light's $16.99 for 2 weeks and $26.99 for 30 days, so I would buy Ringo Light on price from a fortnight up.
The gap is $3.01 over two weeks and $13.01 over a month. For three days it is only $2.01: Orange's three day packs are about $11 and Ringo Light's 3 days is $8.99. Among the travel brands, 3 days of unlimited is $11.50 at Airalo and $11.90 at Holafly. For a month, Ubigi asks $64, Airalo $69, Saily $71.99 and Holafly $73.90.
What Orange wins is plain. Your Polish number stays reachable, so a bank code or a call from home gets through. There is nothing to install, a handset without an eSIM slot works, and the cost sits on a bill you already pay. If you want a light phone for a long weekend, I would take Orange. For two weeks of maps, photos and a hotspot, I would buy Ringo Light.
Networks in Turkey, and what changes for a visitor from Poland
Turkey has three networks: Türk Telekom, Turkcell and Vodafone TR. The brands in the table ride Türk Telekom, Turkcell or both, and Saily lists Vodafone TR as an option. Ringo Light uses a local partner network. In Istanbul, Antalya and the resorts the choice makes little difference. Cappadocia and the ferries across the Bosphorus are where I would save an offline map.
An Orange pack is started by you, in the Mój Orange app, by texting GO10GB or BR to 80060 (80214 on a card), or by calling *100. On contracts signed after 20 January 2024 Bezpieczny Roaming is already switched on, while older contracts and cards must switch it on. The page's own dates differ by a day, so I would check in the app before the flight.
The packs have a ceiling. When the day's 1 GB is gone, the page says data stops until you text DOKUP for another 1 GB at 15 zł, and it names no speed for either pack. Calls and texts are not in the packs and are billed at 0.99 zł a minute and 0.50 zł a text.
One catch for travel eSIMs in Turkey: the Ubigi app and site do not open from inside Turkey, so I would buy and install any eSIM at home, on Polish Wi-Fi, before you fly.
If you want a data bucket: Nomad, Ubigi or Orange
- Nomad, $13 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB in the table, tied with Ubigi, at its sale price. It is $15 regular, and 20 GB is $20.
- Ubigi, $13 for 10 GB. The same price, on Türk Telekom and Turkcell. The app does not open from inside Turkey.
- Airalo, $15.50 for 10 GB. A 1 GB plan from $4, and the Merhaba plan on Türk Telekom. Refunds for a wrong purchase come back as Airmoney credit, not cash.
- Saily, $15.99 for 10 GB. A 20 GB bucket at $22.99. You pay for the app and the Nord account.
- ✓Orange GO 10 GB, about $20. Ten gigabytes over 15 days on your own number. It costs more than a $13 bucket, but you keep one bill and install nothing.
- ✓Ringo Light, no buckets. Its 2 weeks is unlimited for $16.99 and its 30 days unlimited for $26.99. If you need 10 GB to last a whole month, Nomad or Ubigi at $13 is the better buy, and Nomad's 20 GB at $20 is $6.99 under Ringo Light's 30 days. I would rather you read that here than at checkout.
What Ringo Light is
I write for Ringo, so weigh my picks with that in mind. Ringo Light is its own data eSIM, sold to fund the full Ringo, one plan that works everywhere with your own number ported onto it. For Turkey it sells three trips, all unlimited data at full speed: 3 days at $8.99, 2 weeks at $16.99 and 30 days at $26.99. Nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
It is data only, so keep your Orange SIM in the phone next to it. Your Polish number still rings, and calls and texts are billed at Orange's rates. The card to buy Ringo Light is further up this page, just after the side-by-side table.
Pick by trip
I would buy Ringo Light, 3 days, $8.99, against about $11 for three Orange day packs. If you want to keep it on one bill, Orange is a fair second.
I would take one Orange GO pack, 79 zł (about $20), if maps and messages are all you need.
I would buy Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $16.99, with no 10 GB ceiling to watch.
I would buy Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $26.99. Two Orange packs run about $40 and Ubigi $64.
I would buy Nomad or Ubigi, 10 GB for 30 days at $13.
I would keep the Orange SIM in and add Ringo Light for data. Calls at 0.99 zł a minute add up, so I would use messaging apps.
Frequently asked questions
How we compared, and our sources
Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi, Orange Polska, Ringo Light, European Central Bank, Ringo Light
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Turkey on 25 October 2026, all on the same day, in US dollars. Each rival's price comes from its own website where it showed dollars, otherwise from an esimdb.com listing, and every source and its date is listed below. Ringo Light's prices come from the catalogue our checkout charges.
We compare the trips people actually book: a week, two weeks and a month of unlimited data, and a 10 GB bucket. We read each brand's fair use and speed rules and quote them as the brands state them. We did not run speed tests, so this page makes no speed claims for any brand.
Ringo Light is our own product. We put it in the table on the same terms as everyone else, and where a rival is the better buy the page says so.
Left out: Maya Mobile. We could not read its own prices for this country on the day, so it stays out rather than being guessed.
- Airalo: www.airalo.com/turkey-esim?currency=USD, unlimited in dollars on airalo.com, network Türk Telekom (Avea), read 25 October 2026; fixed-data buckets from the esimdb listing dated 5 October 2026
- Holafly: esim.holafly.com/esim-turkey/, prices in dollars from its own page, read 25 October 2026
- Saily: saily.com/esim-turkey/, dollars, read 25 October 2026
- Nomad: www.nomadesim.com/turkey-esim, dollars, read 25 October 2026; 10 GB at the sale price, $15 regular
- Ubigi: cellulardata.ubigi.com/data-plans-and-coverage/ubigi-esim-data-plans/?destination=TUR&one-off=on, one-off plan list in dollars, read 22 October 2026; the site returned no plan list on 25 October 2026, figures confirmed against the esimdb listing dated 5 October 2026
- Orange Polska: www.orange.pl/roaming, roaming page, read 1 November 2026: Pakiet Roamingowy GO 10 GB, 10 GB for 79 zł over 15 days; Bezpieczny Roaming, 1 GB for 15 zł per 24 hours; the packs started in Mój Orange, by text or by *100; Turkey on the list of countries outside the EU. The address orange.pl/roaming/cennik returned not found and was not used
- Ringo Light: ringoesim.com/turkey, the catalogue the checkout charges, read the same day
- European Central Bank: www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml, euro reference rates of 30 October 2026, the latest published on 1 November 2026, used for the dollar figures (1 zł = $0.2537)
- Ringo Light: our own catalogue, the prices the checkout charges on 25 October 2026.
Written and priced by the Ringo team. Prices change often; if you spot one that has moved, tell us through the contact page and we will update the table.
