Does Pokemon Go work on either of Celebrity's Wifi Packages?

[SancLunatic]

Does Pokemon Go work on either of Celebrity's Wifi Packages? Just wondering.

[Akheila]

I can't imagine that there would be any Pokemon at sea any way....but bandwidth wise I suppose it doesn't use up more than facebook.  So it should.....

[mahdnc]

3 hours ago, SancLunatic said:

Does Pokemon Go work on either of Celebrity's Wifi Packages? Just wondering.

 

Yes, you can make Pokemon Go work with the ship's wifi during a cruise--based on our last three cruises (South America, Australia, and Caribbean).  However the wifi signal is not the problem, the obstacle that you will run into sometimes is being able to get a good GPS signal which is independent of the ship's wifi.  If you can't get a GPS signal, the game will load on your phone, you will get the "GPS signal not found" red error banner, and your game really won't do anything while at sea.  So you just have to make sure you are out on your balcony, up on deck, or near a window (e.g. forward observation lounge).

 

A couple of game hints:

 

1. obviously you won't find any Pokemon in the wild when you are at sea, but if you use Incense, you will find Pokemon spawning in the ocean every minute or two (it is funny to see that on your phone).  That should help you keep your daily catch streak alive.

 

2. on sea days when the ship is cruising relatively slowly, you will get a lot of "walking distance" credit towards hatching eggs.  So make sure your friends send you lots of gifts so you can incubate eggs on sea days.

 

3. most of the time when you are out at sea, any Pokemon you catch will not have a location name indicating where you caught it.  However, the Pokemon will still be geotagged so if you do a trade, you will get the proper distance credit.

 

Jan 5 2018: Pikachu in the Coral Sea off the coast of Australia!

Edited September 23, 2019 by mahdnc

[SancLunatic]

16 hours ago, mahdnc said:

 

Yes, you can make Pokemon Go work with the ship's wifi during a cruise--based on our last three cruises (South America, Australia, and Caribbean).  However the wifi signal is not the problem, the obstacle that you will run into sometimes is being able to get a good GPS signal which is independent of the ship's wifi.  If you can't get a GPS signal, the game will load on your phone, you will get the "GPS signal not found" red error banner, and your game really won't do anything while at sea.  So you just have to make sure you are out on your balcony, up on deck, or near a window (e.g. forward observation lounge).

 

A couple of game hints:

 

1. obviously you won't find any Pokemon in the wild when you are at sea, but if you use Incense, you will find Pokemon spawning in the ocean every minute or two (it is funny to see that on your phone).  That should help you keep your daily catch streak alive.

 

2. on sea days when the ship is cruising relatively slowly, you will get a lot of "walking distance" credit towards hatching eggs.  So make sure your friends send you lots of gifts so you can incubate eggs on sea days.

 

3. most of the time when you are out at sea, any Pokemon you catch will not have a location name indicating where you caught it.  However, the Pokemon will still be geotagged so if you do a trade, you will get the proper distance credit.

 

Jan 5 2018: Pikachu in the Coral Sea off the coast of Australia!

Thanks! Did you have the basic Wifi or the unlimited?

[mahdnc]

9 minutes ago, SancLunatic said:

Thanks! Did you have the basic Wifi or the unlimited?

 

Unlimited although we haven't been on a cruise where the newly introduced Surf Internet Package was offered.  Back then your choices were with buying wifi time, not speed quality.

Edited September 23, 2019 by mahdnc

[ldubs]

After reading this (and understanding very little) I feel very out of touch.  😀

[SancLunatic]

Hmm! Ok thanks for the input! Yeah Im gonna be gone for 15 days. I dont want to miss events. D=

[GateGuardian]

The Wifi system's location services is entered manually by the ship, so when I was on the Solstice in Hawaii, my maps still think I'm in Australia.

[crash3x]

On 9/22/2019 at 5:13 PM, SancLunatic said:

Does Pokemon Go work on either of Celebrity's Wifi Packages? Just wondering.

Yes it does. but there is nothing to catch.  not even in many ports...I have tried.........the ultimate place to use the app is a the airport.

[mahdnc]

On 9/23/2019 at 7:00 PM, crash3x said:

Yes it does. but there is nothing to catch.  not even in many ports...I have tried.........the ultimate place to use the app is a the airport.

That may depend on the port. But of course if you get off the ship, you’ll find them. 
 

We just returned from a Solstice cruise around New Zealand and we found Relicanth at each port.