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Three Dubai roaming: Roaming plans, pricing, and alternatives

Explore the available Three Dubai roaming plans and how much they cost. Plus, discover alternatives for a cost-effective solution like a travel eSIM.

If you’re visiting Dubai and want to use the Three roaming service, you need to know how much these plans cost. Knowing how to activate them, along with any limitations, can help you prepare for your trip.

Keep reading as we explore every Three Dubai roaming plans, including pricing, limitations, and benefits. Discover how a Holafly travel eSIM for Dubai can help you avoid roaming charges.

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Is Three roaming available in Dubai?

Yes! You can use Three roaming in Dubai. This service is available with the plans included in the Go Roam Around the World destinations, which include:

Pay Monthly
Pay As You Go
Go Roam Pass
Data Passport

Note: Three roaming service in Dubai is capped at 4G data speeds.

Three roaming charges in Dubai

Let’s explore what each of the Three roaming services includes and how much they cost.

Pay Monthly

Pay Monthly users can access the roaming in Dubai service based on their preferred plan, and when they bought their data plan.

Here’s everything you need to know about each plan.

Advanced: Roaming isn’t built into these plans. However, you can unlock your local text and calls allowance and up to 12 GB/month with a Go Roam pass or a £7 daily roaming pass.
Lite: Roaming isn’t built into these plans. However, you can unlock your local text and calls allowance and up to 12 GB/month with a Go Roam pass or a £7 daily roaming pass.
Value: If you joined or upgraded your plan before June 22, 2025, you have built-in roaming in Dubai at no extra cost for 28 days. If you joined or upgraded your plan after June 22, you can unlock your local text and calls allowance and up to 12 GB of mobile data with a £7 daily roaming pass or a Go Roam pass.
Complete: If you joined or upgraded your plan before June 22, 2025, you have built-in roaming in Dubai at no extra cost for 56 days. If you joined or upgraded your plan after June 22, built-in roaming isn’t available.

To activate your 28 or 56 free roaming passes, log in to My3 or use the Three app.

Three roaming charges after using your allowance

Once you’ve deployed your free roaming passes or used the 12 GB/month, you’ll be charged extra while traveling.

Here are the additional Three roaming charges in Dubai:

Data: 1p/MB
Calls: 3p/minute to the UK or £1.40/minute to a Go Roam Around the World destination
Texts: 2p/text to the UK, 35p to a Go Roam Around the World destination

Pay as you go

If you’re a Pay as you go user, here are Three roaming charges in Dubai:

Make calls: £3/minute
Receive calls: £1.25/minute
Text messages: 35p per text
Data: £6/MB

Go Roam pass

If you don’t have built-in roaming, you can buy a Go Roam pass, which gives you the same benefits of a Monthly plan, but for a set period.

Here are the available options to use Three roaming in Dubai:

3-day Go Roam Around the World Extra Pass: £17.50
5-day Go Roam Around the World Extra Pass: £25
7-day Go Roam Around the World Extra Pass: £28
14-day Go Roam Around the World Extra Pass: £49

To activate any of these plans, you have to log in to My3 or purchase them through the Three app.

Data Passport

A Data Passport gives you unlimited data for 24 hours for £5/day. If you activate your plan at 9:00 AM, it’ll reset at the same hour every day.

These passports only include mobile data; standard pay-as-you-go rates are applied for sending texts and making calls.

Once you arrive in Dubai, you’ll get a link and instructions on how to buy your Data Passport to get Three roaming in Dubai. You can also buy it using your My3 account on the “Manage Services” menu.

How to reduce Three roaming charges in Dubai?

Using Three Dubai roaming services can be your standard solution to get reliable internet; however, reducing roaming charges is your best idea if you’re not using the premium plans.

These tips can help you save money while travelling:

Set a “Spend Cap”: For Pay Monthly customers, setting a “Spend Cap” can help you reduce spending on passes, daily roaming charges, or Data Passports.
Use a Go Roam pass over pay as you go: A Go Roam pass reduces your roaming spending. The cheapest plan, the 3-day plan for £17.50, is more efficient than spending £18 on 3 MB.
Keep an eye on your free roaming passes: If you’re on an eligible plan with free roaming passes, from 28 to 56, keep an eye on how many you’ve left to avoid surprise charges.
Travel with an international eSIM: Using a travel eSIM reduces roaming costs, improves connectivity, gives access to banned features, and doesn’t have monthly limitations.

Forget about Three roaming charges in Dubai with Holafly

Using Three Dubai roaming is an ideal solution for customers with a premium plan. However, for those needing to buy a Go Roam pass or pay for the standard pay-as-you-go rates, there are other alternatives.

The Holafly eSIM for Dubai is a great alternative to reduce roaming charges, as it costs £17 for five days, or £3.4/day, to £50 for 20 days, or £2.5/day.

Plus, 5G speeds are available, you get up to 500 MB of data tethering, 24/7 customer support, and no limitations when using WhatsApp in Dubai.

In case you’re a more demanding user, let’s say you’re working in Dubai, using Holafly Plans is a cost-effective alternative.

Holafly Plans include unlimited tethering, unlimited data, and 5G data speeds. You can use your plan in 170 destinations with no monthly limit, and it costs ~£48.11/month!

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Julio Osuna

English Content Writer

I first started my content creation journey as a freelancer in 2019, before connecting with Holafly in 2021. At Holafly, my travel and tech interests come together in one place as I craft high-quality articles about the eSIM and related markets. My content aims to help travelers stay connected, wherever they are.

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