Tips for New Viking Ocean Cruisers
Since a lot of river cruise (only) passengers, I thought it might be helpful to start a "Tips" thread for new Viking Ocean cruisers to read before their upcoming ocean cruise. Ocean cruising IS, after all, a bit different from river cruising. Feel free to add your own comments, and please correct me if I'm wrong about something. It's been almost 2 years since I was on Star, so things may have changed.
On embarkation (arrival) day you're required to be on board the ship 2 hours pre-depart
After turning on “airplane mode”, I have made calls to US using “TMobile WiFi” with iPhone.
This was on the Sun (WC) and, in August on the Venus. The wifi on the Sky last month was really slow so it only worked around 2am (8 or 9 pm EST).
Cell calling is 25¢/minute and 2G (very slow) data is free from many countries with TMobile.
Just DO NOT use ship’s cell service unless you want to spend a lot $$$.
Tom
