Coyote Chris

I think HAL could do a better job of putting out selective emails. Maybe if you are cruising Vietnam you need Verifly...so sent them the email...dont make us all do fire drills....

Cruise ship Pax capacity is going up 43 percent by 2026. Just like airports, the Port/City etc of San Diego is gonna have to expand if they want the hotel rooms/food sales/docking fees/jobs....At Spokane International airport, its one expansion project after another.....I am not being judgmental about all of this.....but its a fact. The only other way is to make sure the port docking times can be accommadating for all cruise ships seven days a week or start docking at 5p and sailing at 5 a.

I noticed something in San Diego the last cruise. I went through port security, which HAL has no control of, and then got in a line to get my pic taken.....no windows, no ques...THEN HAL sat me down for Boarding group B. So yes, they were policing the actual time you boarded, but not sat.

I too am going to Alaska on HAL May 6th and got that email. I wrote my PCC but I think it is just going out to all HAL cruisers around the world. It MAY be useful in some countries but not out of San Diego/Seattle . I was told in San Diego last fall they dont use it anymore.

I hope they dont mess with the wonderful aft pool deck covers with radient heaters...great place to hang out in the evening or going to Alaska. I will be on her next in Nov to Mexico.

Thanks! I will. Did you sail out of Vancouver? I have had terrible experiences at the airport and the cruise terminal there. Never had a bad experience out of San Diego.

What the heck did they do to the Crow's nest????? 😞 Please tell me they replaced all those torn cracked chairs in the Lido????? In my senility, I did not see a link to the next food vid.

Greetings. I am on the Eurodam May 6 to Alaska. A few days ago, I received an email from HAL prompting me to download the Verifly app, and go through the laborious proceedure of loading all my information, which on the last cruise in the FALL I was told that they didnt use it anymore???? Is this just a catchall for world wide HAL cruises?

Yeah, I didnt expect the cafe computers to be very fast, even with Premium....but maybe more secure. Anyway, I will take my data and post it. I envision a second dish installed on ships in the future using low earth orbit birds....The backup is to have my wife at home buy the tickets, but ticket companies like AXS have made transfering tickets so difficult and even buying them difficult for seniors, its a big hassel. Oh well, its not cancer....

I use Farmacia PVR, about 100 yards south outside of the port walking entrance. They will hand you a list in English of many common drugs you dont need scripts for. You can "walk" by it on google street view or get pics on the web. Be aware that THEY are afraid of counterfeit money, so the credit card prices are lower than cash prices.

I will be on the K-dam in seven days. For fun, I will use an internet speed test app from the hottest part of the ship I can find with my signal strength app and then with a ships library computer. My personal opinion about having my credit card info stolen is that is probably rare on a ship but not impossible. I have had my card info stolen before and I asked my bank how it happens....it can be as simple as a computer trying different combonations......

I agree with you on the speed and it also depends on who gets what package and who on this city of 3000 plus people is using the net and for what. And who gets throttled. Another consideration people tend not to think about is the latency, or ping. If the ship is using a Hughes Net sat sitting up there 25,000 miles , whether or not you are sitting at home or on a ship with an antenna tracking the bird, high quality speed and buffering is suspect.

Thanks. While it doesnt mention commercial sites directly, it would appear to allow them. Especially at premium. The question then becomes, if the onboard wifi is not secure for using a credit card, can then one use one of the on board computers in the "library" securely or better yet, plug ones laptop into an RJ45 jack in the library and just use a direct connection . Either way should be secure. During a capt's lecture, someone asked the capt about wifi. He explained that the ship's com/nav system, etc took first priority, as well as the sea crew.....in fact the whole crew had some sort of pecking order as a number of crew members I have talked with talk to family members using video calls. With the proliferation of Low Earth Orbit sats and other means, internet will improve for pax but its gonna take awhile. And security is still an unknown.

I am not a web whiz (love your handle) but I am not so sure a vpn, which I have, helps scammers on an open network. I could be wrong.

Sorry for the double post here. Answer on the other unnamed forum was as you can see, incorrect.