Web access on Maasdam

We're booked this summer on a European cruise on the Maasdam. Do any of
you have experience with their web access. Do I need to bring my wifi
equipped laptop? Are there machines available with web access? How do
they calculate charges? Thanks for your help. E.K.

As a start, you may find the following useful:
http://www.cruisecritic.com/features/articles.cfm?ID=45

Bev Klein wrote:

We're booked this summer on a European cruise on the Maasdam. Do any of
you have experience with their web access. Do I need to bring my wifi
equipped laptop? Are there machines available with web access? How do
they calculate charges? Thanks for your help. E.K.

We were on the Maasdam in January 2007. They do have a number of
terminals in the internet cafe. I brought my laptop, and could log on
in the hot spots (basically the atrium or in the vicinity of the
internet cafe). There was no access in the stateroom. I felt that my
laptop was faster than the terminals but YMMV.

You can sign up and use the same account for either your laptop or the
terminal - so if you see a free terminal, you can just log on without
running all the way back to the cabin to get the laptop.

As for charges - there is a small fee (less than $4) for the first
sign-up. The biggest package is 250 minutes for $100. If you sign up
on the first day, you get free minutes on your account. If you are a
Mariner you also get free minutes. And if you get a second package,
it also includes some free minutes.

Rosalie B. wrote:
Bev Klein wrote:


We're booked this summer on a European cruise on the Maasdam. Do any of
you have experience with their web access. Do I need to bring my wifi
equipped laptop? Are there machines available with web access? How do
they calculate charges? Thanks for your help. E.K.


We were on the Maasdam in January 2007. They do have a number of
terminals in the internet cafe. I brought my laptop, and could log on
in the hot spots (basically the atrium or in the vicinity of the
internet cafe). There was no access in the stateroom. I felt that my
laptop was faster than the terminals but YMMV.

You can sign up and use the same account for either your laptop or the
terminal - so if you see a free terminal, you can just log on without
running all the way back to the cabin to get the laptop.

As for charges - there is a small fee (less than $4) for the first
sign-up. The biggest package is 250 minutes for $100. If you sign up
on the first day, you get free minutes on your account. If you are a
Mariner you also get free minutes. And if you get a second package,
it also includes some free minutes.


Thanks for the help, Rosalie. Is the Mariner freebie significant, or
just a few minutes? We're going to be on that ship for 35 days and I'm
counting on my e-mail to keep us in touch with family. E.K.

Bev Klein wrote:

Rosalie B. wrote:
Bev Klein wrote:


We're booked this summer on a European cruise on the Maasdam. Do any of
you have experience with their web access. Do I need to bring my wifi
equipped laptop? Are there machines available with web access? How do
they calculate charges? Thanks for your help. E.K.


We were on the Maasdam in January 2007. They do have a number of
terminals in the internet cafe. I brought my laptop, and could log on
in the hot spots (basically the atrium or in the vicinity of the
internet cafe). There was no access in the stateroom. I felt that my
laptop was faster than the terminals but YMMV.

You can sign up and use the same account for either your laptop or the
terminal - so if you see a free terminal, you can just log on without
running all the way back to the cabin to get the laptop.

As for charges - there is a small fee (less than $4) for the first
sign-up. The biggest package is 250 minutes for $100. If you sign up
on the first day, you get free minutes on your account. If you are a
Mariner you also get free minutes. And if you get a second package,
it also includes some free minutes.


Thanks for the help, Rosalie. Is the Mariner freebie significant, or
just a few minutes? We're going to be on that ship for 35 days and I'm
counting on my e-mail to keep us in touch with family. E.K.

I'm not sure it was the same for every cruise - we were on back to
back cruises including a repositioning cruise (a total of about 25
days), and IIRC it was 20 or 30 minutes.