A Tale of Two Internet Accounts

Having an Internet connection  while on a cruise has proven to be an interesting experience over the years.  Performance has always been way below what you might expect at home as the system is reliant on satellite connections and that makes the whole situation more challenging.  It’s not a fully reliable service as it goes down quite a lot

Breakfast with a view!

It’s always expensive but we realised on this cruise that we had a lot of on board credit to spend.  With that in mind, a week or two before we were due to set off I spent most of our on board credit on having a one-user Internet account on the ship.  We thought it didn’t matter as we already had a free drinks package and we didn’t expect to spend a lot on excursions.

It's a Sarah-type car on a tiny Caribbean island!

And then we arrived on board – to see that we had paid more for our Internet package than anything available to newcomers arriving on board.  So off we trotted to see the Internet Manager to ask what was going on!

Passing window cleaner.  He's not allowed to look in while travelling

He explained that, barely a few days before, Celebrity had changed their policy and were now offering two separate products – one for basic emailing, web surfing etc and another for video streaming / movie watching etc.  A quick calculation revealed that we could have two basic accounts for much less than we had paid at home for one Internet account, so that was sorted.

What if I wanted one of those books on the top shelf?!

So it was that, for the first time in our cruising history we have had two Internet accounts on a cruise.  But it has meant that this cruise is one of the quietest we have had.  Mrs A who was at first reluctant for us to have more than one account has been totally absorbed by her online presence and I’ve had hardly a peep out of her!

This is now how it’s bound to be with Celebrity from now on ....