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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!
Next trip...
1/16~AKL/AS Mo
Past trips...
10/2015~Long Overdue Honeymoon @ the Disneyland Hotel! 1st visit to DL!!
11/14~AS Mu
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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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?
CB 2007
BWI 2008
YC 2009
BWI Innkeepers Club 2010
BC Christmas 2011
BWI Christmas 2012
??? June 2013
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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!
~ Carolyn ~ aka "CANADA!"
Every year since 1979! Annual Passholder in CANADA!
* Old Key West
* Saratoga Springs
* Boardwalk
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* Pop Century
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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).
Linda aka: Faline
INTERCOT Staff: Vacation Planning,Trip Reports and Disney Camping
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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
Me DD 15 DD 15 DS17 DH
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MARCH 2009 POR
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16TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
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see if you can tether through your cell phone.
Disneyland: many, MANY times!
WDW:POR POFQ BWV WLV ASMu POLY
Am I a huge disney fan? YOU BETCHA! I blame it all on my parents! They are the one's that walked around Disneyland all day to induce labor! Yep, I've been going to Disneyland since the day before I was born!
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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
Next trip...
1/16~AKL/AS Mo
Past trips...
10/2015~Long Overdue Honeymoon @ the Disneyland Hotel! 1st visit to DL!!
11/14~AS Mu
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...
K. White
The magic is within all of us!
WDW Off Site 1978, 1981, 1986, 2005, 2006
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PO- Riverside- 6/2010
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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.
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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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
"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"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.
Ian șOș
INTERCOT Senior Imagineer
Veteran of over 60 trips to Disney theme parks and proud to have stayed in every Disney resort in the continental United States! ș0ș
Next trip:
April 2018 - Saratoga Springs Treehouse
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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.
Christie
September 2007 - Pop Century
September 2009 - ASMu
September 17-24, 2011 - Off Property
October 2014 - ???
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We don't take a computer on vacation to WDW. It's our chance to leave the "real" world behind
18 Previous Visits
Most Recent December 2011 (POP)
May 2012 (Disney Fantasy !)
Sept 2012 POP Mom/Daughter Trip
Sept 2013 40th Anniversary Adventures Disney Ireland
2014 Check out MK Makeover!
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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!
Offsite...(12/97 & 10/99)
DL...(10/02 & 5/05)
CBR/Disney Wonder 2004, AllStar Music 2004, AKL 2006, POP 2006, POP 2007, Poly 2007, BWI 2007, WL 2008, CSR 2009, Poly 2009, CBR 2010, AKL 2011...
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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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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!
Tess
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