Crown Princess- intRAnet

[ibchupacabra]

Hi 👋🏻 

 

On the Regal and Royal, you are able to use WhatsApp to communicate your party on the ship. I have a 14 year old boy and it was a great way to keep in contact. Do you know if we can use WhatsApp or something similar on the Crown? Or will we have to use the messaging on crown.princess.com?  Yes, I am unplugging from the rest of the world, just want to know if it works on the ship’s network. Thanks in advance for your reply. 

[skynight]

On 11/19/2018 at 12:29 PM, ibchupacabra said:

Hi 👋🏻 

 

On the Regal and Royal, you are able to use WhatsApp to communicate your party on the ship. I have a 14 year old boy and it was a great way to keep in contact. Do you know if we can use WhatsApp or something similar on the Crown? Or will we have to use the messaging on crown.princess.com?  Yes, I am unplugging from the rest of the world, just want to know if it works on the ship’s network. Thanks in advance for your reply. 

The ship's intranet uses the Princess @ Sea program. You log on and it's there, no app. It has a messenger that lets you message designated others on the ship. I'm assuming your son is on the ship. There is no charge for intranet service.

What's App is an internet program. You will have to purchase internet minutes for each person to use it, and each person will have to log in and log out so as not to use up the minutes. With the by the minute packages you can not stay connected all the time. I don't believe the Crown currently has the unlimited internet option, maybe someone else knows.

https://www.princess.com/ships-and-experience/onboard-experience/activities/princess-at-sea/

[ibchupacabra]

Hi! Thanks! Believe it or not, WhatsApp and FB messenger work solely on the the Regal and Royal Wi-Fi, no money or internet needed. It has been a nice feature in the past. Princess@sea is great, it just doesn’t give message alerts. But we’ll make it work for us. Thanks!!

[Colo Cruiser]

1 minute ago, ibchupacabra said:

Hi! Thanks! Believe it or not, WhatsApp and FB messenger work solely on the the Regal and Royal Wi-Fi, no money or internet needed. It has been a nice feature in the past. Princess@sea is great, it just doesn’t give message alerts. But we’ll make it work for us. Thanks!!

I did not have that option this month on the Regal and the IC manager knew nothing of it.

[ibchupacabra]

Weird! Both worked on the Regal last Thanksgiving!

[Colo Cruiser]

9 minutes ago, ibchupacabra said:

Weird! Both worked on the Regal last Thanksgiving!

I didn't  pursue it because I had the unlimited.  

[goldie099]

I was on the Regal last December and I know what you're referring to! You could connect to the ship's wifi for free, and use Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and iMessage.  So far I haven't read anything to indicate this is possible on the Crown, but I am curious as well...given what I've heard about the Crown's poor internet, I'm not holding out hope...