Vlad the Impaler

Your Roku must support the "hotel and dorm connect" feature, which temporarily relays the internet connection to your phone so you can authenticate it to the WiFi. The Roku will take up one of your VOOM devices. See here for how to do it:

https://blog.roku.com/hotel-and-dorm-connect-for-your-roku-device

While Roku has done their part to make this possible, you still need to be able to connect the HDMI cable to the TV (input panel not accessible on all ships from what I've read previously) and change the TV's input (the supplied remote does not have a source/input button so you will need to bring a Samsung or universal remote of your own to change it, and hope that the feature is not locked out on your TV).

If you do get it working, the actual performance of streaming will depend on a lot of factors outside your control (quality of service settings on the ship's network, current bandwidth utilization of the satellite uplink, reception, effect of latency on streaming protocol, etc).

In short it's possible but be prepared for an uphill battle with technology. By the time you get it working you may need another vacation. There is so much stuff to do, I can't imagine why anybody would want to watch TV on a cruise ship. But that's my personal opinion and nothing more. If it's important to you, I'd suggest downloading the shows you want to watch to a laptop before leaving. Then you can validate they play before you leave so there's nothing to worry about, and it'll work on the plane too.

Good luck!

4 hours ago, EKRAFT22 said:

Has anyone recently sailed out of San Juan on the Freedom?

We were on Freedom last week. Announcements were all bilingual. All of the production shows and most of the activities were in English. There were a couple activities that were Spanish-only, and they were noted as such in the Compass. We went to every show and had a great time. They do heavily cater to the largely Puerto Rican audience though. Besides choices in music/WJ food/entertainers, many things started with the host first recognizing who's from Puerto Rico (often asking about other countries first to build up suspense) which was received by a lot of yelling and cheering, and some chants in Spanish.

It was a cultural experience for sure, but still mostly in English. I think you'll enjoy the cruise. We did!

13 minutes ago, Mikeandliz said:

the ADA need to take control.  And come up with a registry of certified, trained animals.  Just having a BS piece of paper i can get on the internet should NOT be allowed...

Funny part about that is (in the US anyway) you're not allowed to ask for papers. So even if there was a such thing as valid documentation, it wouldn't do any good to have.