When will cruise ships offer free wi-if in cabins?

[Ms SailAway]

Viking has free internet on all river and ocean ships. IMO best line in the business in every way.

 

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[Sandycakes]

I just cruised the Baltic on Viking Sea and wifi was free all over the ship including cabins!

 

 

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[mllewis48]

I just cruised the Baltic on Viking Sea and wifi was free all over the ship including cabins!

 

 

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Viking ships are usually within a stones throw of shores, and within reach of cell towers, JMHO

 

 

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[Sandycakes]

Are u talking about their river cruises because this was one of their ocean cruises. Granted, depending on our location the signal could be weak, but overall I was pleased.

 

 

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[mllewis48]

Are u talking about their river cruises because this was one of their ocean cruises. Granted, depending on our location the signal could be weak, but overall I was pleased.

 

 

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[Charles4515]

I just cruised the Baltic on Viking Sea and wifi was free all over the ship including cabins!

 

 

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If you pay a lot more for a cruise you might get "free wifi" but we are still paying for it as part of the fare. If cruise lines want to include WiFi as part of the fare that is fine with me personally since I will use it a lot but those who want to unplug are going to be paying for the costs of something they don't use. Free is only illusion. As explained satellite internet has costs as does the infrastructure and support needed on the ships. Those are much higher than our home internet connection. Cruise lines are not going to eat that cost. They are going to pass it on to us one way or another. If it is not an additional charge it will be a higher cruise fare.

[Cruise Junky]

Lack of free internet is always a check mark in the land trip column vs. cruise column when deciding on a vacation. At least RCL has the unlimited plan for a fairly reasonable price

[XBGuy]

The thing is, I don't go into threads about drink packages or casinos with these statements.

 

I wish that more people here on Cruise Critic had that attitude.

 

Of course that would eliminate a very large percentage of posts. ;p

[Iamcruzin]

I'm hoping that in another few years the posts shaming people for the way they spend their cruising time with regards to technology will die off and fade away. I've said it a million times here, but I don't go around judging people who spend their entire cruise hammered, getting melanoma, or even with their eyes in a book for hours (and thus not fixed reverently on the ocean).

 

The same people who will sit at a slot machine and punch the buttons like a robot will act utterly bewildered by someone playing a game on their phone.

 

Just do *you*, folks.

Honestly I can find better entertainment on my laptop or smart phone than what is playing on M.U.T.S or in the Princess theater. It would be a lot cheaper to provide internet service than to pay those hack want to be Broadway performers who lip sink to a sound track.

[Iamcruzin]

I will agree with your post in substance. I think it's ridiculous to go to dinner and texting. Or carrying your phone around all day. Going to a nice dinner at the resturant and a young couple be texting on their phones. To each his own for whatever reason. But I still reserve the right to laugh at the self important people out there, just like laughing at the guys with pants on the ground.

 

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Sometimes when we are at a crowded loud restaurant my wife and I will text each other so we don't have to speak over the crowd. So it is very likely that the young couple may be doing the same. I have also been to a wedding where someone who was on the other side of the room has sent me a text to grab my attention. Texting has replaced screaming across the room or table.

[cb at sea]

If they can charge extra for something, they will. Don't ever expect "free wifi" or any kind of free internet!

[dmwnc1959]

self-im·por·tant

ˈˌself əmˈpôrtnt/

adjective

1. having an exaggerated sense of one's own value or importance."a self-important bureaucrat"
   
2. synonyms:
   
3. conceited, arrogant, bumptious, full of oneself, puffed up, pompous, overbearing, opinionated, cocky, presumptuous, sententious, vain, overweening, proud, egotistical; informalsnooty, uppity, uppish; literary Pooterish
   

I take a lot of pictures while on a cruise. A lot. And I use my phone for a lot of different reasons. However, I don't use my phone for social media. Haven't done that in a while.

 

One night at dinner someone asked me if I knew what was the show was for the evening, so I pulled out my phone and checked the Princess App. I had also taken a picture of that day's Princess Patter, so I could also see whatever movies where playing that evening and what times other shows were playing in every other venue. I quickly relayed that information to others who asked.

And since I take a lot of pictures, I'll use editing apps to crop or adjust the photo to reflect the truer colors of what I actually saw, since my iPhone doesn't always capture an accurate image.

On my last cruise, after one of our Cruise Cruise friends here started a thread to wish me a "Bon Voyage, Dave", and dozens of other people joined in with her, I turned it into a daily Live Report from the ship. I used the Internet to upload pictures to my Flickr account and then to update that 'blog'. It included lots and lots of pictures of the ship, food, ports, and Patters. I did this because I knew it would help others on upcoming cruises. Just like the "Everything Royal Princess" thread. And both were greatly appreciated by those who read them every day.

 

So me carrying around my phone all day - to take pictures, edit pictures, check the Princess Patter app or my screen shots of the Patter that I took, and to do the variety of things I do - doesn't make me self important. It makes me smart. And helpful. And most certainly not self important. Like those here who are "laughing" at others because they have passed judgement on them as "ridiculous" to go to dinner and texting or on others by "carrying your phone around all day".

 

Sounds like you are the one that is self-important.

[perditax]

I was having a similar conversation in another thread, and a poster was stating that seeing other people using devices in her vicinity on cruises stressed her out so badly she wanted to "grab them by the throat".

 

I think (I know) there is a ton of psychological baggage happening as humanity meets internet, but I think we have to just try (harder) not to automatically assume the worst about everyone.