Rogers Roam Like Home: what it costs per day, the Travel Pass packages, and when an eSIM is cheaper

What is Rogers Roam Like Home?

Roam Like Home is Rogers' name for using your own plan's data, talk and text abroad for a daily fee, with your Canadian number and no SIM swap. Rogers' support page says it works in over 185 destinations and is available to individuals and businesses on eligible plans. Rogers now sells two versions of it: a daily rate you pay only on days you use your phone, and prepaid Travel Passes for fixed trips.

Neither version adds a separate data bucket. Rogers' Travel Pass FAQ says passes use the data, talk and text already in your plan. If your plan has 60GB, you have 60GB abroad, not a fresh allowance.

This is desk research from Rogers' own pages. We have not bought or tested a Rogers plan or Travel Pass.

How much does Rogers Roam Like Home cost per day?

On 10 November 2026 Rogers' roaming page listed the US daily rate at $16 a day, covering all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Prices are from Rogers' Canadian site.

We could not confirm the international daily rate. The roaming page's daily section showed only the US rate when we read it, and Rogers' support page puts its rates behind a country search tool we could not read. Several third-party sites quote a figure, but we have not used it. Check the rate for your destination in the MyRogers app before you go; the welcome text you get on arrival also shows it.

How a day is counted matters more than usual with Rogers:

• You're only charged on calendar days you use your device.
• Each daily fee runs until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, not local time.
• Crossing between the US and another eligible destination on the same Eastern Time day means two separate daily charges.
• The fee applies to each device using the service.
• Calls, sent texts, voicemail and any data, including background refresh and syncing, all count.

We did not find a cap on daily charges per bill on the pages we read.

What Rogers roaming packages and travel packs are there?

Rogers calls its roaming packages Travel Passes. You can buy them up to 60 days ahead, and you set the start date in MyRogers before you leave. A pass starts at 12 a.m. Eastern Time on the first day and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on the last.

Rogers also lists regional passes for Europe, Caribbean and Mexico, Asia, Oceania, Africa, and Central and South America, but the roaming page showed only the passes above when we read it. Cruise data is limited to 1GB per 24 hours at the fastest speeds available, then up to 512 kbps.

The rules are strict. An activated pass can't be refunded. You can't change or cancel it on its start date. And you can't renew one: to extend a trip, buy a new pass that starts the day the old one ends. Until a pass's start date, the daily rate applies, and backdating isn't allowed.

Which Rogers plans include roaming?

Some plans include it, at least for a while. Rogers' plans page on 10 November 2026 listed, with Internet or TV service and after the Auto-Pay discount:

The "for 24 months" wording on Essentials and Popular means the US and Mexico roaming is time-limited. The page did not list prices for mobile-only customers. Rogers Red Mastercard holders also get Roam Like Home days at no extra cost each year on eligible plans, and Rogers says its customers get a 30-day International Travel Pass at no cost on Expedia bookings over $1,000 outside Canada. We did not read the terms behind either offer.

When is a travel eSIM cheaper than Rogers roaming?

For data, nearly always. Our verified eSIM prices were read on each seller's own site in August 2026 and are in US dollars; Rogers prices are from its Canadian site. Even if the two currencies were at par, the eSIMs below would be cheaper.

Holafly's unlimited data was $23.90 for a week in Italy or Mexico and $27.50 in the UK or Japan. Holafly did not list a US plan in our verified data.

Rogers wins in three cases: you're on 5G+ Popular or Ultimate and your destination is already included; you need your Canadian number for lots of calls; or you're a cardholder with free Roam Like Home days to use. A travel eSIM is data only, so calls and texts still go over roaming or Wi-Fi.

If you add an eSIM, turn off data roaming on your Rogers line so Roam Like Home doesn't start a day by itself. Our data roaming guide shows the setting, and international roaming plans compares carriers. Our Rogers SIM page is for visitors to Canada. For Europe trips, see the best eSIM for Europe.