Does Beach Club Villas have WiFi? Internet? Dial-up, broadband? (m)

[OurDogCisco]

I'm trying to decide what to do. I just bought a new digital camera and the memory cards are expensive. I'm beginning to think it would be cheaper to go back to a regular film camera. Anyways, I was trying to decide if I should buy more cards or upload daily to the internet with my laptop? I am a scraper so, I take more pictures than the average person. I think, for a 10 day trip I can easily take 1000 pictures. That's a lot of cards to buy. The other thing I could do is take my old digital camera and take some of the pictures with that one. Any advice would be greatly appreciated....

Tina

 

[JodyTG]

If you have dial-up internet access, just look for a local number for your stay. You can do this directly from any hotel room phone. You have to pay the 75 cent local calling fee though. You could also just upload the photos to your laptop and leave them there until you get home.

 

[goldilocks_63]

each phone call is .25 cents for DVC members, not the .75 cents. (used to be free).

But it is painfully slow.

THere is I think broadband, for like $15 for 24 hour period at BCV. Maybe if you filled all your memory sticks, and then downloaded like every 2nd or 3rd day, this would work.

For us, a one week trip, 4 memory sticks is enough. ALso, they have OEM vendor memory sticks (ie non-Sony), and those are about half the cost.

I still think I save money on digital, cause I don't end up printing photos that I don't like, and can delete the "bad ones".

Hope this helps, Goldi

 

[OurDogCisco]

Thanks, unfortunately I don't have dial-up so that won't work. Broadband for $15 a day sounds pricey. I can buy a memory card for under $100 that holds almost 300 pictures. It just might be easier than trying to lug a laptop around and then, trying to store it in a safe when we aren't in the room.

Question for goldilocks_63? Even though I've had a digital camera for 4 years I'm still learning the in and outs of it. I just got a SLR digital which uses totally different memory cards than my last digital camera. Anyways, where you do you buy the OEM cards that you are talking about? And, do they work on all cameras? I bought my old memory cards at Costco because that was the cheapest place I could find them. I can't find the ones for my new camera yet there...

Thanks,
Tina

 

[RAD]

When I was at BWV last November, it was $9.95 for 24 hours of access. My speeds weren't that great but it was sure a lot better then dialing up.

 

[WDWguru]

You might also check with the area Walgreens and major grocery stores. A lot of them have kiosks where you can put your card in and burn the images off to a CD. I personally take a LOT of photos and have two 256 mb cards. They sell sizes up to a full gig now and you can get them at any electronics store (Best Buy, etc.). As long as the format is the same as your camera (ie MemoryStick, SD, etc) you can use any brand you like. For my Sony camera, I have both Sony MemoryStick media and SanDisk MemoryStick media and both work just fine.

 

[TheBeast]

I think you could just save the pictures to the computer hard drive rather than loading up to internet. Or if the laptop has a cd burner, you could do that too. Never thought about it before, but I think we may do that!

 

[spoon2003]

I picked up a 1gb compact flash for $70 after rebate at CompUSA, so now I have 1-1gb, 2-512mb, and 2 -256mb. I have a 6mp prosumer Fuji and a 3.2mp Canon P&S that uses the same memory card. I decided not to bring the laptop, if the memory cards fill up, I'll stop by the Kodak Pavillion in Epcot and download them on a CD.

Sue

 

[OurDogCisco]

I think you could just save the pictures to the computer hard drive rather than loading up to internet. Or if the laptop has a cd burner, you could do that too. Never thought about it before, but I think we may do that!

I'd do both... Save them to my hard drive and then, upload them to ofoto or something like that. I guess, I am too paranoid...

Tina

 

[OurDogCisco]

I picked up a 1gb compact flash for $70 after rebate at CompUSA, so now I have 1-1gb, 2-512mb, and 2 -256mb. I have a 6mp prosumer Fuji and a 3.2mp Canon P&S that uses the same memory card. I decided not to bring the laptop, if the memory cards fill up, I'll stop by the Kodak Pavillion in Epcot and download them on a CD.

Sue

What a good idea? Do you know how much you can download on a CD? With my new camera the files are huge, 4000 to 5000 KB.

I like the Walgreens & grocery store idea too but we won't have a car on this trip...

Thanks,
Tina

 

[spoon2003]

I have not actually done the Kodak download so I don't know exactly how much the Kodak cd holds, but a typical CD holds about 700 MB or more. My fuji .jpg files are about 1+mb each, so I was able to get over 500 pictures on 1 cd burning it myself at home.

 

[DaveT1]

Just wanted to throw another idea in case. You could also buy an external USB hardrive 80GB for little more than $100.00. Or an external DVD burner.

If you have enough cards to last a day or more of shooting i wouldnt buy more. and you would have $100 in internet charges for 10 days of use.