Carnival Wi-Fi so when you're on the Carnival ship there is Wi-Fi on the ship
that you can connect to with your phone and if you get the Carnival Hub app you
have access to different information like charges to your account and you
know menus at different restaurants and things like that and you can also even
if you don't have the app you can access some very basic carnival sites where you
can download the fun times which is your itinerary of all the events in the next
24 hours and you can also search future cruises because that's a thing we do a
lot when we're on these ships is you know we think we're inspired and we
think oh we want to go on our next cruise and so you can do a lot of
searching there my experience has only been using those two things the hub app
and the free sites and I found that connecting is actually pretty good I'm
able to stay connected all the, almost all the time I'll be connected in the
bathroom and the elevator and the you know wherever I go but it's super slow
to search cruises so the carnival site if I want to log into my account if I
forget if I've been on 18 or 19 cruises how many ships whatever if I wanted to
log in and look at my profile to see that that is painfully slow. Painful. Like like
486 like it's like dial-up slow yeah yeah so I was gonna say during our
comedy night last night I sat next to a girl who had internet on her phone and
she was looking at Instagram and I asked her are you taking have you done the carnival
Wi-Fi she was yeah it's not worth it she was like I can't believe I paid whatever
amount that she paid and so I don't recommend it it's slow it's
horrible don't do it just go look for free Wi-Fi I think it also depends a
little bit on the ship itself because I bought the social media package on the
legend when we went to Alaska and I didn't really have many issues with the hub app
or or with the Wi-Fi for the social media package thing so I think the
different the varying ships really does make a big difference because on the
legend definitely didn't have these problems but on this ship
yeah it's constantly I'm constantly connected not connected connected it's
yeah it's yeah had I got the social media package I we've been far more
annoyed that I currently am oh yeah I mean I'm definitely I'm definitely annoyed and
irked so on the Legend when you had the Wi-Fi social package
the way that it worked on the legend did you think you got your money's worth out
of it I think I did yeah okay so I guess it kind of depends I think depends on
the ship your device and where the ship is located because we were going up the
coast of British Columbia Canada and into Alaska and back again and so we're not
necessarily out in the open ocean and I don't know necessarily what kind of
internet options are available in Alaska how much of it is satellite based but it
might have better satellite coverage because we were kind of closer to
civilization rather than if we did it we didn't do it for Hawaii but had we done
you know three days into the Pacific you know what what's your coverage like
there and also weather could be a big factor too because it is satellite and
so if there's if there's a storm if there's cloud cover if there's things like
that and there's other factors too bandwidth so yeah the Wi-Fi has so many
different things it could be your device it could be how many people are using it
at that time where the ship is located the age and upkeep of the ship and it's
IT stuff you know the weather so many different things could go in so it seems
like the experience it really is a gamble because we have that good
experience on the Legend you did rather yeah but it sounds like more often than
not I do not hear complimentary things about the pay Wi-Fi most people seem to
think that it's not really worth it I know that Sam uses it more when he when
he goes solo yeah and he doesn't he says it's a little slow but he can make it
work but again it's hit or miss so my personal thought is I don't recommend
paying for the Wi-Fi I do recommend using the free stuff as it's available
but I don't think it's worth paying for and the other thing is I think part of
the whole idea of a cruise and a vacation is to disconnect and you get a
get away from those sorts of demands for your time I sometimes joke that like on
Facebook or Twitter somebody will like post a link and then they'll tag me in
it and it'll be like a 5,000 word article and I'm like oh I have homework
tonight I have reading and so you can get away from that and I'm not saying
that it's it's all a bad experience that you need a technology detox or anything
but at the same time open yourself up to unexpected and different experiences and
being disconnected is one of those ways you can do that I think. Yea, you can do your WiFi hunting on the port days. Which isfun like
that's the thing if you don't want to pay for an excursion or overpriced
beverages or whatever I find it kind of fun going around
hunting for Wi-Fi I'll see things oh a chicken I'm looking for Wi-Fi and I'll find
a chicken and allow yourself to have those unexpected you know memories
formed basically by but by you know trying something different that way and
disconnecting is not a bad thing but all the more power to you if you like to do it
feel free go ahead but just know that it is a gamble