Free Wi-Fi availabilty in Baltics

[clueless2]

Just booked a HAL Baltics cruise for next June. I was considering using skype with my iPOD touch to try to call home when in ports. I have read that HAL blocks Skype on the ships. Just wondering how prevalent pubic wi-fi access is in the Baltic cruise ports and if they leave it open to Skype.

 

If it's not broadly available I won't bother with trying Skype and will just use e-mail to keep in touch with the (grown) kids and use the cell if there is an emergency.

[TMLAalum]

There is free wifi right at the end of the dock, near the market booths, at Tallinn port. I used my Itouch there. I'm sure others will chime in with availability in other Baltic ports.

[Cornishpastyman1]

I didn't try in St P but found free wi-fi connections very easily in Copenhagen, Tallinn, Helsinki and Stockholm (very good inside the Vasa Museum). You will have no problem with your Itouch, although I don't know about Skype.

 

As TMLAalum says, it is particularly easy in Tallinn, which supposedly has more free providers per capita than anywhere in the world.

[newfarmers]

Helsinki on the T3 tram - worked a treat

as one other poster said in Tallinn on the dock

Copenhagen - there was a park on the waterfront walking back to Langeline (I think)

never tried in St P, just didn't have time

Stockholm - sure I remember my phone beeping down near the ferry stop but again racing around so didn't have time to bother with internet

Warnemunde - limited amount of ree time at the car farry stop in front of the ship, if you don't have a static IP address on an ipad then you can keep logging back in :D

[Ultima Thule]

For Helsinki, on this map, change language to English (on the top) , do a search with word "wlan" and zoom in on downtown.

 

http://www.hel.fi/palvelukartta/Default.aspx

[Joulupukki]

http://freewifi.ru/points/?countries=1&cities=11&place=0&conn=1&proto=0&x=25&y=8

 

http://wifi4free.ru/spb/

(Google Map, last added points)

 

http://wifi4free.ru/spb/hotspots/

(all points)

[clueless2]

Thanks to all for the feedback!

[Duckenz]

we found wi fi easy to log onto and skyped from freeport in Copenhagen but mainly we just stopped in at any McDonalds.Didn't have time in St Petersburg to try as other posters have said

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