Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of: <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2014/02/03/disney-cruise-line-internet-to-charge-for-usage-instead-of-minutes/" target="_blank"><b>2/3/14: Disney Cruise Line Internet to Charge for Usage Instead of Minutes</b></a>
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Yes... a HUGE plus. Charging for connect time seemed like a total rip-off in that at times it took FOREVER to load a single, simple page. We'd decided not to even bother with it in the future. We were tired of buying a couple of hundred dollars worth of time on a 3-4 day cruise just for modest usage. Now we will reconsider.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Probably just me, but I can't think of a reason I'd want to ever "connect" with the real world if I was enjoying a relaxing cruise.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros This does sound like an improvement, but I agree that I'd be very inclined to keep the electronics turned off while I'm on a cruise. I deal with the outside world enough in my daily life, so it's nice to have a vacation where you can just cut yourself off; being in the middle of the ocean sounds like a pretty good excuse to be cut off to me!
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance When we went on cruise last year, the only thing we wished we had was better access to family to let them know what was going on with us. Email would have been nice to have. I can see wanting to send the occasional e-mail.
Originally Posted By schnebs <<Probably just me, but I can't think of a reason I'd want to ever "connect" with the real world if I was enjoying a relaxing cruise.>> You've never spent time with my new son-in-law, K2M. The only way we were able to talk him out of surfing the Web was to tell him how much it'd cost.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>You've never spent time with my new son-in-law, K2M. The only way we were able to talk him out of surfing the Web was to tell him how much it'd cost.<< LOL, I can imagine. There's just so many other options of things to do on a cruise (or do nothing at all but relax) that I'd welcome the opportunity to unplug. Probably a generational thing.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Ann and I have a lot of friends and family on Facebook and we like to stay caught up on what is happening with them. The main time we spend on the internet is late at night when there isn't much else happening. The main adults only club is open until 2 AM, but in the hours after midnight they are pretty deserted, and the only entertainment is a DJ. We are usually more than ready to go back to our room by midnight. Even the adults only pool closes at midnight... although you find people using it after that time, we tend to follow the rules. So if you are night owls on vacation like we are, the internet is about it!
