Texting onboard without buying VOOM

[OCVTSGIRL]

In August a group of us will be sailing on the Oasis.  Is it possible to text each other on board without purchasing VOOM?  None of us need to use it but since there are 10 of us in 5 different rooms it would be nice to be able to text to set up places to meet.

[brookmill18]

We were not able to do this on Anthem 2 weeks ago. It was our first post-covid cruise and were surprised because up until our last cruise in summer of 2019, we were able to iMessage while using ship wifi. We had purchased Voom for one device and if we wanted to text each other, we'd text, then sign off hoping the other would log on and see!

[flamingos]

You can text people on board via the Royal App, for $1.99 a day.  

[RoperDK]

3 minutes ago, flamingos said:

You can text people on board via the Royal App, for $1.99 a day.  

Just off Odyssey.  Don't count on the Royal App text capability.  Each person is charged $1.99 a day and it wasn't reliable.  We missed a lot of messages and it was more frustating than useful for us.  

[flamingos]

7 minutes ago, RoperDK said:

Just off Odyssey.  Don't count on the Royal App text capability.  Each person is charged $1.99 a day and it wasn't reliable.  We missed a lot of messages and it was more frustating than useful for us.  

Ours worked, but you have to have the app open and it doesn't send an alert, so yeah - you have to look at it a lot.  Hopefully they are working on the functionality.  🙂

 

[J0Y0US]

Royal wants their cash but they should simply provide free iMessage, Whatsapp, and Facebook Messenger.

 

Disney I think offers iMessage and Whatsapp for free and so do some airlines. Heck I bet they could even work with Apple or Facebook to get them to pay to allow because they want people to download and use their apps.

[OCVTSGIRL]

Thanks everyone!  I had a feeling we wouldn't be able to do it but thought I would check here.