Netherlands Antilles eSIM

No. It was dissolved on 10 October 2010. Curaçao and Sint Maarten became constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with the same status Aruba had taken in 1986. Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba became special municipalities of the Netherlands itself and are now collectively called the Caribbean Netherlands, or the BES islands. There is no longer a government, a passport, a currency or an ISO country code called Netherlands Antilles, and there is therefore no Netherlands Antilles to buy a country eSIM for.

Because the upstream catalogue still carries the old label, and we would rather explain it than quietly hide it. That plan family declares exactly one mobile network: Flow, mobile network code 362-91, which serves Curaçao. It is a Curaçao plan wearing a dead country name. It does not declare a Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Saba or Sint Eustatius network, so it will not connect you on those islands. If Curaçao is your destination, compare it against the plans on our Curaçao guide on price. If any other island is your destination, it is the wrong product.

Yes, but it is not called Netherlands Antilles — it is the Caribbean Islands regional plan. Its verified coverage list includes Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten, along with French Saint-Martin and about twenty other Caribbean destinations. That makes it the honest answer to "one eSIM for the Dutch Caribbean". One warning so you do not over-trust it: Anguilla is not in the coverage list, so it is not a blanket Caribbean plan.

Check where you are landing. Curaçao (airport code CUR) and Bonaire (BON) sit off the Venezuelan coast, about 80 km apart, and are a completely different trip from Sint Maarten (SXM), Saba (SAB) and Sint Eustatius (EUX), which are roughly 900 km to the north-east in the Leeward Islands. People book "the Netherlands Antilles" and then discover their island is a separate country with its own operator. Buy for the island on your boarding pass.

No, and the ABC grouping is the reason the confusion persists. Aruba left the Netherlands Antilles on 1 January 1986, twenty-four years before the dissolution, so it was never part of the 2010 break-up. Bonaire is a Dutch special municipality. Curaçao is a constituent country. They are grouped as the ABC islands because they sit together off Venezuela, not because they share a government or a mobile network. Aruba even has its own mobile country code, 363, while Bonaire and Curaçao share 362.

Three different ones. Curaçao and Sint Maarten use the Caribbean guilder (XCG), introduced on 31 March 2025; the old Netherlands Antillean guilder (ANG) ceased to be legal tender on 1 July 2025, so any guide still telling you to carry ANG is out of date. Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba have used the US dollar since 1 January 2011. Aruba uses the Aruban florin. US dollars are widely accepted across all of them in practice.

Plan for 4G. Every coverage row in our catalogue for these six islands declares 4G, and none of them declares 5G, so we do not claim it. In practice the towns — Willemstad, Philipsburg, Kralendijk, Oranjestad — are the well-served areas, and the thinly populated interiors and dive sites are where you should expect to lose signal. Download offline maps before you go inland or out on a boat.

It depends which island you are standing on, which is exactly the kind of thing the old single-country framing got wrong. On Curaçao, 911 reaches police and fire and 912 is the ambulance. On Sint Maarten, police is 911, ambulance is 912 and fire is 919. On Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba — the Caribbean Netherlands — 911 covers emergency services. On Aruba it is 911. Save the right ones for your island before you fly, and remember a data-only eSIM cannot dial them: you need a line that can place a voice call.