Has Anyone Ever Emailed Photos from Onboard ?

[chmb1]

Has anyone ever been able to email photos home (in any way shape, or form) from the Internet Cafe?

How about with the new camera enabled cellular phones?

I think DCL might be avoiding this so they don't have to deal with the onboard aggravation!

Chris B.

 

[HooKooDooKu]

bump...

I too am curious to know if this is possible.

My best guess is that there is not a way to do this as you would have to have some sort of physical access to the computer to load your image to the internet.

I know that if I was an IT tech responsible for the Internet Cafe, I would NOT want people to have access to the physical machine, or even the desk top. I would only want them to have access to a browser as access to anything else would make it too easy for someone to screw the system up.

 

[CRenze]

I called Disney and the only thing you will have access to is:
monitor, keyboard and mouse. You will be able to print but the printer too is out or reach (CM's will get your printouts for you).
I've even inquired about Shutters putting media from a digital camera onto a CD and at this point they do not offer that service. My worst fear is running out of media (DH say not possible, I have an 8, 32, 64 and 128 mg media cards), afterall this is my first cruise and I love to take pictures! Does anyone know if there is anyplace on the islands that could offer this service?

Cindy

 

[LAMPSKIES]

If you are sailing on the Wonder there is an internet cafe in Nassau. It's to the left after to get to the shops. I believe we paid 3.00 for 15 mins.

 

[Magic_Fan_Bruce]

The Internet cafe' manager told me on our last cruise they will be putting in wireless internet access at the internet cafe'. This will allow users to bring in their own laptops and connect to the internet via a wireless Ethernet card you rent from the cafe'. I don't know if this was done in dry-dock or not, and he wasn't sure of the pricing.

 

[bah]

shutters can make images from your digital media...but you have to be willing to give up your memory card for 24 hrs. i'm pretty sure you don't get a disk for saving the images.

the gift shops DO sell memory cards, for slightly higher than what you would pay during a non-sale time in a large store (about $90 for a 128 MB secure disk....we paid $40 for the same brand at Best Buy during a sale).

many of the shops in st. maarten (and i imagine in st. thomas, though we didn't look) also sold memory cards, for about the same price as the cruise. It's good to know that you're not completely out of luck if you run out of memory!

as far as sending images home via e-mail, there is a place in St. Thomas called Soapy's...you walk through the Havensight Mall and cross the street...it is an internet cafe geared towards crew members. the owner was very helpful...we brought our docking station and the digtal camera software and we were able to e-mail the photos home (we were hoping to copy the photos to a CD but the machines couldn't do that). we didn't end up e-mailing the photos (didn't want to spend the time) but i think the charge was about 7 to 10 cents a minute. the phone number is in the passporter book so i called before we arrived and Adrian (I believe that was his name) was expecting us when we arrived.

If it helps, we ended up taking 2 128 MB cards full of photos on the 7 days. We had a third 128 MB memory card with us (as well as the traditional 35MM camera) just in case, but never ended up needing either.

 

[HooKooDooKu]

I got lucky with our first cruise with a digital camera. I managed to pick up an old laptop on the cheap. I then found an old CD-R burner at a second-hand computer store that I could connect via the printer port.

At the end of each day, I would copy my pictures to the laptop and burn them to CD-R. That way, I could erase the card (if I filled all of my cards up) and not worry if the harddrive crashed in the old laptop.