Originally Posted by der_saeufer

Rather than buying a 'tourist' eSIM, you want regular prepaid service. The majority of prepaid MVNOs (plus the actual carriers) offer eSIM these days. T-Mobile has cheap plans and plans with lots of data, Visible gives you unlimited everything (deprioritized tho) on Verizon for $25/mo, etc etc.

If you have an iPhone, you can get a free month with the T-Mobile test drive app. You have to be in the U.S. to sign up but that's what airport wifi is for.

Edit: T-Mo now calls it "network pass", you get three months free, and it's available on Android as well. The downside is that you can only use network pass once (per IMEI, I assume) whereas you could use test drive once every 6 months. Also, Visible will give you 14 days as a free trial.

Originally Posted by gfunkdave

T-Mobile and Mint would be the ones I would look at.