dwhe

"P&O to charge Lisbon tourist tax from Jan 24"

But you are asking "IF" they will be charging, your thread title says they "ARE" charging.

Do you work in the newspaper industry?

On 12/5/2023 at 9:06 PM, FangedRose said:

I don't miss the little "reminders" (begging) that occurred when it came to the last few days of a cruise. I also don't miss the in cabin surveys and the hints that "unless you mark this question 5 stars I won't get my tips".

I have never had that on any of my cruises, I'm not saying it didn't happen .

Thanks

I have some Dollars left over from a previous cruise, I take it crew won't mind me giving them those? Anyone have experience of that?

People like to feel important and keep away from the rest of the nasty passengers in the buffet, I'm joking by the way.

As you have to enable flight mode it disables the hotspot option, so you can not share it unfortunatly, but it is really easy to swap devices quickly. A travel router will work, I have been told, if you have to use multiple devices on one connection.

13 hours ago, Billish said:

Well, my wife and I have just watched "Strictly" here in the UK.  "Dancing wirh the stars" I think in the US. A 135 minute show (it is a live show). Two bottles of wine, plus what we drank for dinner. Not a problem. 

15 drinks spread over a day is not that much for Europeans, but Americans in my experience have a different tolerance level. 

I used to work for an Irish company that exported to the US. Bringing US customers to Ireland was a fraught experience. Three pints of Guiness before dinner, and my customers were off to bed, and it was only 19:00 !

I agree, 15 over the day when on holiday I will easily reach, especially when most of the bottled beer is half a pint

4 hours ago, dockman said:

...  I cannot even imagine anyone having 15 booze/coffee drinks a day and I sure would not want to be around those that max out.

The 15 limit is for alcohol only, coffee, water and soft drinks are unlimited

25 minutes ago, JF - retired RRT said:

IF you drink. Not interested in booze, wine, sodas, "free" coffee card. So, Plus fare doesn't work for us at $40/day/pp. I priced out one that was $20/day/pp (for a short time), but TA said our category was "full" & couldn't do it.

But if you do drink booze, wine, sodas, coffee and use wifi it's a bargain.

33 minutes ago, Daniel A said:

It seems that @dwhe is correct.  A little further down on that Samsung web page it says:

"Wi-Fi tethering

 

Many Galaxy devices also enable Wi-Fi sharing. Although typically a mobile hotspot will be used when you don’t have Wi-Fi access, there may be instances where your device is connected to Wi-Fi and you want to share that connectivity to other devices. One benefit of Wi-Fi sharing via your phone is that you do not have to directly share the original Wi-Fi access point’s password. To do this, go into the options menu at the top right and turn on Wi-Fi Sharing."

 

Again, this confusion and contradictory information is enough reason to avoid encouraging people from using their phone to expand their onboard connectivity.

Thank you Daniel.

1 hour ago, Rick&Jeannie said:

This is the correct answer...the phone must communicate directly with the carrier, not "hopping" via an intermediate Wi-Fi signal.

I'm not sure what you mean but I can assure people that my Galaxy S21, and all my S series phones before that, are capable of sharing a hot spot via wifi or mobile (cellular) data.

You do not have to be connected directly to your carrier.

I took out my SIM card and connected to my home wifi then used it as a hot spot to connect my laptop via the phones SSD, hopefully I will be able to do the same on the ship in 10 days time.

I apologise if I have misunderstood but it is getting confusing.

1 hour ago, cjpj said:

...But now I'm curious. Have to see how @dwhe testing goes...

I am on Sky Princess on Oct 5th, I will try it then and post back to this thread.

35 minutes ago, Roberto256 said:

 

Being able to share a wi-fi connection is a fairly unusual feature.

Not impossible, but rare...

 

On all my Samsung Galaxy S range phones I have been able to share wifi without people having to log on, they just connect to the SSD

My phone can use a mobile (cellular) data connection or any WiFi connection as a hot spot, in theory I should be able to use my ships WiFi connection as a hotspot. I will try it out in 10 days time and let everyone know if it works, but I see no reason why it should not.

Why would a hot spot not work when a travel router will?

4 hours ago, cjpj said:

With the Medallion only allowing you one device with free internet, does anyone know if I can use my phone as a hot spot for my laptop? Would I be able to do something like a Teams or Webex meeting with the hit spot?

As clueless2 said, there is no reason why you can't use the WiFi hotspot on your phone to connect your laptop to the internet. In fact, some people take travel routers to do the same thing.

My guess Alcairns is that this is some poor journalism in regard to the Irish Examiner and the port of Cork not updating their website, I found the follow that seems to suggest it will go ahead, I hope:

http://crew-center.com/cork-ireland-cruise-ship-schedule-2021

I will post this as well on our roll call, but as we all know things can change very quickly

41 minutes ago, hapzfl said:

Please help me out. I am new to these new Princess ships and although we are not going to travel on the Sky Princess we are scheduled on a cruise on the supposedly similar Enchanted Princess. 

 

Here is the question: where is the Concierge Lounge located?

 

 

Deck 14 by the wedding Chappel

30 minutes ago, dides said:

No, we were also in a suite and suite guests were not called separately.

 

 

 thanks

2 hours ago, dides said:

... and then announced Elite and then Platinum could board first. We were the first Elites into security!

 

 

Did they mention suites as well?

I booked the complementary first night speciality dinner via the app a month before we sail, it was very easy.

On 9/6/2021 at 1:14 PM, luv2cruzuk said:

Hi Everyone,

 

I've created 4x 3D Cabin Tours, which you might find useful. Please let me know if this is something you would use going forward? 

 

https://cruiseshowuk.com/tour-sky-princess-cabins-in-3d

 

Please subscribe to our YouTube channel, because we have the video tours of each cabin coming, along with a 'Medallion Challenge'

video and a food vlog.... not forgetting the ship tour!

 

See you up on deck!

 

David

Superb David, thank you very much.

Is everyone oblivious to the fact that eating and drinking is almost impossible with a mask or have people here had a sense of humour bypass, I'm waiting for the "I eat and drink with a straw" posts

10 minutes ago, memoak said:

As far as I know you need to wear the mask until you are seated at bars and restaurants then you can probably take them off...

haha, I like it 🤣

I hope I don't have to wear one in the bars and restaurant, it will get a bit messy if I do 😁