Taking your laptop onboard with you?

[zebra]

I was wondering how many people taking their laptops on a cruise with them. Personally I use the computers on board - especially if we cruise Princess... we get free computer use. Do you think it's worth the trouble to schlep it with you?

[CanadianCruiser]

I have doen it on my last 2 cruises and only because one was a 10 day, and the other was a back 2 back.. and needed to download my pics... Next cruise it is staying HOME !!!..lol

to much to lug around....

[mickey02454]

This is an easy question for me.....I don't own one.

[Gregswife]

I have always taken my laptop with me onboard, mainly to download pics. I now have a new digital camera with a card that holds over 600 pics, so I am not going to mess with carrying the laptop on our upcoming sailing.

[jacketwatch]

Our son took his on our last cruise but has trouble at times getting a connection and could never get a connection form our room. I suppose this has to do with the wifi network availability. We were in the Baltic and I assume we were often out of range for a connection. He ended up using the ships PC. Cheers, Larry

[TheSkipper]

NO way do I carry my laptop aboard. Just too much trouble. Use shipboard computers once or twice each cruise to let family know all is OK. I have several cards for my camerain the 1 and 2 GB range so there is no way I'm ever going to fill them with pictures.

I carry the laptop when I travel on business, but not on vacation.

[lovelypinky]

well i don't usually bring my laptop on cruises too much to hog along

and since it is beginnig to die on me and i am getting new one soon but i don't use computer on vacations since so much to do and see on cruise easily to miss the excitment

[zebra]

That makes ense.... we also have a 2 GB card in our digital. The only problem is that we like longer cruises - last year on the 12 day Med cruise I took 920 photo's - what I did was cut a couple of CD's onboard the Millennium. Why I did this is because after visiting so many different European ports, seeing so many churches, one forgets the names and where you were - so it was good to download, group them by port and label them before my "old" brain forgot where we were. Don't you just hate that.... you get home 2 weeks later and say to yourself, now where in the world did I take this picture!

[mercedes]

I use the computer on board to keep in touch with my family back home, and print out my boarding pass (I don’t have a lap top). I have several memory cards for my camera, so I don’t have a need to download pictures. Jackie, I type up the names of each port I am visiting and at the beginning of each day, take a picture of the name of the port, that way all pictures that are taken for that day will be for that particular port.

[KeithnRita]

We've only taken the laptop once and it was a real pain in the rear. It was for a cruise out of Houston and we spent a couple days there before the cruise. I unfortunately had to do some work those two days.