Internet package/Carnival Hub app

[chewie8008]

So, we are leaving for Aruba on Carnival Sunshine tomorrow. My wife and I are going to get the internet package that is $25 for the week. She wants to be able to Facebook message her family back in the US. A few ppl going with us would like to be able to message back and forth with just us on the cruise ship. So I'm wondering if I pay the $25 for the value internet or whatever it's called that allows access to Facebook/Instagram etc. Does that package also allow us to message via the carnival hub app to our fellow cruisers or do we need to pay the extra $5 to use the Hub messaging as well?

 

Is there a difference in reliability? I've read that the $5 messaging via carnival hub can be unreliable. Is the internet package more reliable or the same?

 

Thanks!

 

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[JaneyLynn]

the $25 social media package is different from the chat/message feature... so no. You will have to pay $30 to get both.

 

Both are reliable as the other (clear as mud :) ) if you lose the wifi on the ship you won't get message from either fb message or the chat/message on the HUB. I have a Samsung Galaxy s5 that kept dropping the wifi but my BF's Galaxy s6 did not do that. I think I needed to change a setting

 

Also if you want to chat/message via the HUB with other passengers just add them as a contact with their chat id. The id will show on the main page under your name. Most I saw were 4 digit numbers.

 

Just off the Breeze and have current knowledge of it.

[CruzCrazy]

We didn't bother with the $5 chat feature. If everyone you want to "chat" with has FB messenger on their phones, then you can just use that under the $25 social media package. That's exactly what our group did on the Breeze in Feb.

[xeroxme]

Yes you can do that on sunshine which has the newer internet plans. I purchased the premium and at times the performance was great and at times either due to ship location or activity level on the wifi I wasn't able to get streaming video. However it is so much better than it used to be and so much more reasonable. Good luck and enjoy the Sunshine!

[shellsd]

Sailed last week and had the $25 social plan. I was hoping iMessage would work as well. It worked for the first day or two and then quit. Facebook message worked reliably the entire week. That is how I communicated with my parents back home and my husband on the ship. The friends we traveled with only bought the $5 hub package and that was definitely hit or miss. I'd say only 60-70% of our messages went through at best. We could not use Hub on the $25 plan

[chewie8008]

Cool, thanks so much!!

 

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[Cant_Wait1996]

I'm sure this is a dumb question but I'll ask anyways. Is it $25 per device or for everyone in your cabin? We will be on the sunshine in June and my teenage daughters want the social package for snapchat but my husband and I will not get it so I'm assuming it's $25 each for them?

[chewie8008]

My understanding is $25 per device...

 

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[cruiserNC]

I'm sure this is a dumb question but I'll ask anyways. Is it $25 per device or for everyone in your cabin? We will be on the sunshine in June and my teenage daughters want the social package for snapchat but my husband and I will not get it so I'm assuming it's $25 each for them?

 

 

 

Any device can use the plan but only 1 at a time. Whenever a second device signs on the other is disconnected. Hope this helps.

[Cant_Wait1996]

Any device can use the plan but only 1 at a time. Whenever a second device signs on the other is disconnected. Hope this helps.

 

 

That does help and good to know, thanks!