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  1. #1
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    Default What does everyone do for internet access?

    I want to bring my laptop on our next trip to upload pics and skype with family. What does everyone do for internet access? Pay the $9.95 for 24 hours? Any other suggestions? TIA!
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    DH had to take a class during one of our trips. Had to **** up the cost and go to the Business Center at our resort.

    Consider a smartphone?
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    I was recently looking at Intercot's Info Central on internet services, and found something strange. I'm not doubting that it's true -- but it seems odd to me.
    For most of the resorts, it says that it's
    $9.95 for 24 hours continuously.
    But to use the business centers at
    Disney's Contemporary, Grand Floridian, Animal Kingdom Lodge, Yacht and Beach Club and Coronado Springs Resorts. Their hours of operation are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. The cost is $40 per hour or $10 for each 15 minutes of internet access. There is also a charge of $1 per page to print. The Center's equipment can be used for business purposes only.
    Forty dollars an hour??? That seems mind-boggling that anyone would pay $40.00 an hour, or $10.00 for 15 minutes to use a resort's computer. Wow. Note to self: Bring my own laptop if I ever forsee needing a computer for business purposes while at WDW!

    We usually do bring our laptops along and will pay for the internet for 1 or 2 days while we're there, just so we can check in on things, send emails with pictures to our friends, etc. But we try not to waste our vacation staring at a computer screen so we limit ourselves quite a bit!
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    I've only taken a netbook on two trips. I paid for Internet access for 24 hours on one of them and only because I needed a piece of information contained in my e-mail that helped me decide to take advantage of a bounceback offer in our room. Otherwise, I would simply have done without internet access for the duration of each trip. (By the way, I brought the netbook so I could do my trip reports and have them ready for when I got back home).
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    I take my laptop and upload photos and as previous poster stated make notes for my trip reports but have not paid for the internet access. Im on vacation and don't want to spend it with my laptop. My DH would probably throw it out the door if I did
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    see if you can tether through your cell phone.
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    I am probably better off just doing it for 1 day for the $10. Otherwise if I am on it too much my DH will kill me. LOL
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    3/14~Off Site
    11/13~AS Sp
    8/11~POR
    2/11~AS Mo
    4/09~Pop
    8/07-9/07~AS Sp
    GOT ENGAGED BY CASTLE!!
    12/06-1/07~AS Mo/AS Sp
    05/05~AS Mu
    08/00~Off Site

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    Thankfully, my DW and I have made a pack to put our lives on hold for a week to truly take a vaction. Having a blackberry helps with checking e-mail. My job issues iphones this year, so it was a huge help to have internet access without paying for it on my phone. I did post a few times to intercot from my phone. What we realize is the world will not crumble if we don't respond to an e-mail for a week, but I am glad my wife and I finish our grad classes before we started going to WDW, cause we would have had to pony up the $10 a day...
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    Took one lap top and it sat there for the week and collected dust. That NEVER happens anywhere else other than at WDW.
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    I don't use the 'net when I'm on vacation other than on my IPhone
    Too many trips to keep track of now! Vacation WDW twice a year so any questions ask freely ☺️

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    I use my cell phone to check weather reports, email, and facebook. In August, we were staying at OKW on DVC points with friends. She had to practically force me to take a turn using the internet and all I did was check email and facebook. There's really just no need for me. We leave in 6 days and all 3 laptops are staying home.
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    We too, use our Android phones. Love them more than any other "toy" we have! Weather, sports scores, local news from home...anytime we are waiting for a bus or sitting on a bus was a great time to use them. But NO work! That's the rule.

    If you have one, take it along!
    Karen

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    "So it is."
    "And freezing."
    "Is it?"
    "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately."

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    I take a long break from the internet. I'm in Disney.

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    Since I don't have a choice particularly and I really have to stay connected to the office even when on vacation, I always bring a laptop with me and connect in the room.

    That's one of the things I love about belonging to DVC ... free Internet. I even bring along a wireless router to hook up, so I can connect wirelessly in our villa.

    Before we joined DVC, though, I typically paid the $9.99 per day. That's really not that bad for Internet ... I've stayed in many places on business trips where the fees are as high as $19.99 a day.

    In regards to the costs in the business center, remember that there you're paying for both the computer use and the Internet service. Also, anything that vendors know are going to most likely be expensed always get marked way up.
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    Last time we took DH Verizon card so we'd have access if we wanted it. I think I used it all of two times, which is unheard of for me. Even during the kids down time, if I wasn't napping myself there was too much Disney magic to absorb rather than spend my time online.

    If it weren't for worrying that I'll fill my camera's memory card, I'd leave the whole thing home.
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    We don't take a computer on vacation to WDW. It's our chance to leave the "real" world behind

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    We plugged into the land line. It's free and SLOW!!!!! But, we could get the weather and hubby was able to follow my progress during the half and full marathons. That's about all we used it for. He would check email occasionally on the phone.

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    For me it would be a necessary thing when going on vacation to take my netbook, since I am taking college courses online. So as long as I have the "thingy" that you plug into the netbook (can't think of the name of it but was looking at them at BestBuy) and pay the $10/day while even staying at POP I will be all set!
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    You can use the internet for 2 days for 1 $9.95 charge as long as you do not exceed that 24 hr limit. So technically, if you are careful about how you use it, you could only be charged for every other day.
    Kathy șoș

    LET'S GO BUCS!

    Next trip - June '14

    Past trips:
    6/13, 4/13, 7/12, 7/11, 1/11, 8/10, 7/09, 3/09, 8/08, 8/07, 12/06, 9/05, 7/03, 7/98, 5/96, 8/93, '70's X 2

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    Default Last time we brought a portable network connection

    (Virgin Broadband 2go) but next time I'll just use my iPhone4 for everything. I'm really excited about having less to carry!

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