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I was on Adventure last month and had purchased a basic surf (Voom) package. I decided to ask the Voom desk if I could upgrade my WiFi package and use my 2 D+ days value to do so.  He answered yes!  To upgrade is $5 per day.  This was a 9 night, so my 2 days free more than covered the upgrade fee.

I’ve always purchased the basic package and have not thought to ask about using the value toward an upgrade.  Has anyone else tried this and been successful?  Or Was this just a really nice Voom desk guy?

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Not exactly the same but when I was D+ I would always buy Voom Surf & Stream for one device ahead of time leaving my D+ CAS offer unused and available onboard.  Towards the end of the cruise I'd ask the Voom specialist to use my 2 days of Surf for a second device. 

Technically that should net me one device at Surf & Stream and one device at Surf but they would consistently just make my one device Surf & Stream into a two device Surf and Stream plan for the rest of the cruise.   

In my case I don't think their platform can accommodate one guest having multiple plans so they upgraded my Surf free days into Surf & Stream free days for the second plan/device.

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15 minutes ago, twangster said:

Not exactly the same but when I was D+ I would always buy Voom Surf & Stream for one device ahead of time leaving my D+ CAS offer unused and available onboard.  Towards the end of the cruise I'd ask the Voom specialist to use my 2 days of Surf for a second device. 

Technically that should net me one device at Surf & Stream and one device at Surf but they would consistently just make my one device Surf & Stream into a two device Surf and Stream plan for the rest of the cruise.   

In my case I don't think their platform can accommodate one guest having multiple plans so they upgraded my Surf free days into Surf & Stream free days for the second plan/device.

Hmm, that's interesting. I had the S+S for 1 device and asked them to transfer my free D day to DH, who had no plan, so he got Surf. Next time I'll try keeping it under my name and see what happens.

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I have been fooling with a similar problem for my upcoming Thanksgiving cruise. This will be our first D cruise so me and the wife each get a day of internet which she needs for work. I prefer to stay disconnected. Should we just wait till we board and use the 1 day we each have and then buy the rest of the days or just buy her the package and forget about it?

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1 hour ago, CruizIan said:

I have been fooling with a similar problem for my upcoming Thanksgiving cruise. This will be our first D cruise so me and the wife each get a day of internet which she needs for work. I prefer to stay disconnected. Should we just wait till we board and use the 1 day we each have and then buy the rest of the days or just buy her the package and forget about it?

The one day will be surf. You could use your one day, then her one day so she has 2 free days and then buy the package for the rest of the cruise. Or depending on the price, you could just buy it on CP. If I have to work, I am just buying the package beforehand, surf is often too slow to get any real work done. Plus, with a full Thanksgiving cruise they might be throttling the speeds extra. 

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1 hour ago, Ampurp85 said:

The one day will be surf. You could use your one day, then her one day so she has 2 free days and then buy the package for the rest of the cruise. Or depending on the price, you could just buy it on CP. If I have to work, I am just buying the package beforehand, surf is often too slow to get any real work done. Plus, with a full Thanksgiving cruise they might be throttling the speeds extra. 

Yeah I think you are right. I especially don’t want to go down to the internet desk mid week and have to deal with it.

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3 hours ago, CruizIan said:

I have been fooling with a similar problem for my upcoming Thanksgiving cruise. This will be our first D cruise so me and the wife each get a day of internet which she needs for work. I prefer to stay disconnected. Should we just wait till we board and use the 1 day we each have and then buy the rest of the days or just buy her the package and forget about it?

There are some strategies you can use to possibly get the cheapest deal.

Firstly, if your wife doesn't need to be connected on the first day/evening, you can wait until after midnight to activate one of the free days.

Then, there is the option to upgrade the free day from surf to surf+stream at a cost of about $8, so you can do that when you activate your first free day.

Then you can use the value of the other free D day as a discount for a rest-of-cruise package.

So, if you work out the total cost of that, you can compare it to the CP price for a full voyage package, ideally at a time when there's a sale on as that will usually also save you a few dollar a day.

I always have fun doing this sort of price comparison to try and get the best deal but there's absolutely nothing wrong with not wanting to be bothered and just going for the CP purchase for the sake of ease and convenience. Do what suits you best. 🙂

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4 hours ago, CruizIan said:

I have been fooling with a similar problem for my upcoming Thanksgiving cruise. This will be our first D cruise so me and the wife each get a day of internet which she needs for work. I prefer to stay disconnected. Should we just wait till we board and use the 1 day we each have and then buy the rest of the days or just buy her the package and forget about it?

Personally I have found the precruise sale to be a better deal than me using my D+ days and then purchasing a package.
 

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The wife has S&S all voyage with the Casino and two free days of Surf with her D+.  The Voom folks showed her how to set it up where they both showed up on the login screen and she could choose which one she wanted. I borrow the S&S for work and she still has her other for her phone/tablet. Then we have my two days of D+ and we’re set for the cruise week. 

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1 hour ago, CrznTxn said:

The wife has S&S all voyage with the Casino and two free days of Surf with her D+.  The Voom folks showed her how to set it up where they both showed up on the login screen and she could choose which one she wanted. I borrow the S&S for work and she still has her other for her phone/tablet. Then we have my two days of D+ and we’re set for the cruise week. 

I had the basic package on Oasis and wanted to give my husband my 2 D+ days.  The Voom desk made hubby go to her to be able to transfer the days, he had to go for each 24  hour period.  It would have been nice to know how to do this on our own.

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59 minutes ago, Pattycruise said:

I had the basic package on Oasis and wanted to give my husband my 2 D+ days.  The Voom desk made hubby go to her to be able to transfer the days, he had to go for each 24  hour period.  It would have been nice to know how to do this on our own.

Same for my one D day. It would indeed have been nice to know.

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