Two Way Radio's

[southern planter]

Does Carnival allow 2 Way Radio's on board? Sailing Conquest on July 1, 2012. Trying to keep up with family members. Thanks for your HELP.......

[firefly333]

sure .. you may have a little trouble finding a open channel as others will have them too.

[Out to sea!]

Yes, you can use walkie talkies while on board. Pick out a primary and alternate channel you want to use on board so that you can contact each other easily. Also, depending on how good the radios are, you may or may not have reliable reception though out the entire ship.......there is a lot of metal around you! ;)

[crusinpsychRN]

Please be discrete with it. Not much worse than hearing all that chatter by the pool b/c of all the people with radios. It is funny what you hear others talking about on them!

[jetteh22]

Does Carnival allow 2 Way Radio's on board? Sailing Conquest on July 1, 2012. Trying to keep up with family members. Thanks for your HELP.......

Yep! We had ours the last cruise because there were quite a few of us. They were medium-priced walkies and still had REALLY bad reception trouble if we weren't close to the outside. After a few minutes of trying, though, we'd finally get one another.

 

Somebody mentioned finding a frequency nobody else is on. We didn't have this problem. Saw others with walkies but we never got crossed with anybody else.

[bunchesofun]

We bought two sets ($100) from Wal Mart, Motorolas, and had no reception. Rather about 30 feet away from cabin, but any further could not hear anything.

[FiremanDan]

Please think about your fellow passengers when you use them. The table next to us in the MDR had them and ever meal started with "where are you" and "I can't hear you. Seems that none of them could get to the dining room on time and they thought is was ok to yell in their cheap walkie-talkies. After three days a ships officer finally had a little talk with them and the rest of the dining room clapped. They were not happy but the world was better place after the chat with crew. :p

[jaxonboy]

We bought two sets ($100) from Wal Mart, Motorolas, and had no reception. Rather about 30 feet away from cabin, but any further could not hear anything.

 

We bought a pair of TriSquare TSX300's, they do some trick with the frequencies that hunt around. You put in your phone number as a key. Always a clear channel, who has duplicate phone numbers? Work great on the ships, will work from the ship to ashore, but not very far. Don't work real well in the woods, the trees seem to bother them, go about 2,000 feet. They are sold on amazon. Not much money.

 

They also send text messages. You can set up groups. Real handy.

[serene56]

we tried them our first cruise for a few hours-- gave up because they were more of a hassle then it was worth.

 

Way too many kids screaming for Mooooooom. or Daaaaaad. and all the moms sceaming back into them. (yes you get that stuff on your set too- no matter channel we were looking for)

 

 

May i suggest to use the cabins phones to leave each other messages.

ship is not that large where one can get lost.

 

look at the daily FunTimes and know where every one will be at what time.

(different color high lighters work great for this)