Princess iphone app??? use onboard???

[only1deejay]

Does princess offer an onboard iphone app??? with maps of ships, live events, wait times for shows and such??? or are they behind the times with their tech gadgets???

 

HINT HINT.....need to be more proactive princess...thanks.:)

[GranJean]

Haven't found a Princess specific app but you might try Ship Mate. You can set it for whatever ship you want.

Hope this helps .,.

[S.S.Oceanlover]

Does princess offer an onboard iphone app??? with maps of ships, live events, wait times for shows and such??? or are they behind the times with their tech gadgets???

 

HINT HINT.....need to be more proactive princess...thanks.:)

 

do any cruise lines have this?

 

I can see it now. I turned my phone on to check the deck plans and my bill was $300.:eek:

 

Bill

[Pam in CA]

Celebrity has one but it's awful. If I were them, I'd be embarrassed that it's so inadequate. The Shipmate app is far better and includes a lot of information: deck plans, itinerary where you can input the tours you have planned whether through the ship or independent, a contacts list where you can store friends or roll call cabin #'s, a generic list of ship's tours (not the actual tours for your cruise with prices but rather the general list from the Princess website), and a number of other features, including a link to where the ship is now. I know that Shipmate is available for both iPhone and Droid.

[FawnRiver]

You have to buy the ShipMate app to get Princess ships, just a warning. The free version only covers a few lines and Princess isn't one of them.

 

I'm on a ten day in January, but it would only allow me to select the 20 day itinerary that my ten day is the first half of, which is slightly irritating.

[Chrissie]

I have the ShipMate app and I think it is well worth the $1.99. :)

[Potstech]

I have the shipmate Princess app for my droid. I just checked the market place and it is free. Except for ship location and cam it can be used in airplane mode for deck info and other items.

[jonikal]

Celebrity has one but it's awful. If I were them, I'd be embarrassed that it's so inadequate. The Shipmate app is far better and includes a lot of information: deck plans, itinerary where you can input the tours you have planned whether through the ship or independent, a contacts list where you can store friends or roll call cabin #'s, a generic list of ship's tours (not the actual tours for your cruise with prices but rather the general list from the Princess website), and a number of other features, including a link to where the ship is now. I know that Shipmate is available for both iPhone and Droid.

 

 

Shipmate is pretty good, but not always accurate. Example is the Emerald's TA on April 26, 2012 which shows up as an Eastern Caribbean 10-day round trip from FLL. The webmaster at Shipmate said they were in the process of making some changes that would hopefully prevent those errors.

[DougandEric]

I have the ShipMate app and I think it is well worth the $1.99. :)

 

Is that $1.99 total or $1.99 per month?

[toypoodle]

It's $1.99 total and it's also for iPads, as well.

[Loonbeam]

As far as an onboard app, they would need to have an internal internet server on every ship, updated and fed via the already heavily used wi-fi network for it to work. It would be simpler just to offer the information via a browseable page outside the billing system if they wanted to do that.