Social package....NOT!

[bobsfamily]

The social media package worked well enough on one of the ships out of Galveston for a friend to get banned from FB for a few days over a picture he posted. LOL

Now that's funny! Or is it sad?

[cpshaye]

I was on the Breeze in December and I too bought the "social media" package and my snapchat never worked either. I only had access to twitter and fb

 

This was our experience on Liberty in January,also.

[Bert64]

Bought it on my 8-day on the Breeze last year and it worked perfectly.

 

Some of us have kids at home we need to check-in with, thus immediately turning off our phones and putting them away for the entirety of the vacation is not practical. $25 to message back home daily and make sure everything is okay is a steal! Posting pics was just an added bonus.

[sarahbeth476]

I bought it on the Elation last September so I could stay in touch with my children at home. The messenger app worked great. But the call feature was a bit spotty and slow. It worked well enough to check in with the kids. A couple of my friends who were traveling with me on the ship ended up getting the package so we could find each other. It was well worth it to me. I didn't try to use any other social media than Facebook. On our upcoming family cruise in October, I plan to purchase it so my kids and I can find each other on the ship.

[BlondieB]

Plus, posting vacation envy pics will be fun. To each their own!

 

hahaha yes!!! We always cruise in November/December so my sick, twisted sense of humor always enjoys posting my pics during...just a little* (*a lot) to torment the folks dealing with winter at home. While winter in Dallas/Fort Worth is not the same as our northern neighbors, it's still winter and we don't winter well :D. Plus, I find that I'm in such a cruise depression when I arrive back that if I don't post pics during, it takes me forever to do so when I return. I'll be purchasing it again on the Splendor in November. It was a great way for those in our group of 24 last year that purchased it to find each other on the ship via fb messenger.

[iwantsomesun]

That's my feeling too but I've heard that can be a bad connection in most ports.

 

Follow a staffer off the ship. Or wander the port looking for a group of ship staff sitting/standing in one area. Bingo - there's your wifi ;)

[nsullivan]

We were on the Liberty last week. Got the social package. It was $18 for a 5 day cruise. Facebook worked fine for us the entire time. So did instagram and pinterest. I don't snapchat so I couldn't say anything about that. Imessage worked too but sending a photo over it didn't always work.

[crazycruzer68]

You can purchase it by the day for $5, do it that way if you want to see how it works. We used it on the Pride in October and no problems at all.

[Wndrwomn]

We just got back from a B2B onboard the Glory and had the social package ($25 each week) for both weeks. And while it was wonderful to have access to Facebook while on board- the plan clearly states Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram (LIES!!!) LOL I was unable to get any updates on anything but Facebook and neither could anyone else I talked to. When I asked the tech person they said "yes that is a problem we are having with the program".

 

I have an Android so I don't know if the issue was the same with IPhones also??? I would have purchased the plan just for Facebook alone so I could stay in touch with my kids but I wanted to be sure others understood that even though the plan lists all the other apps...they were not a working part of it.

 

Both me and my sister bought the "Social" package as well. She was able to send voice messages and photos via WhatsApp, but I could only send text messages. We tried checking all the settings, etc. and everything was the same. I was able to upload pics (videos took a day to upload) to FB.

 

Both of us also had problems with FB, it wasn't updating, we were getting the same old stories from Sunday on Friday lol

 

Not a deal killer, but I did get the Social program because my daughter was sick and I needed to keep in touch. Thankfully she wasn't admitted, but the WhatsApp really helped :)

 

Would I get it again? $25 to keep in touch for the week via text is pretty good.

[nsullivan]

The paperwork I got last week on the Liberty doesn't say snapchat is an option for the social media package. Maybe they realized it didn't work and have changed it?