Sorry to have not paid attention when this has been discussed in the past BUT, I read in my Diamond docs for my 3/11 (next Thursday - Yeah!!) cruise that there is email available on the ship. They say that I can establish a yahoo account for the purpose of sending and receiving email. Is it a big deal (or costly) to set this up? The fees for usage seem really low - i.e. $6 for one hour. Are there any charges that I don't see? Do I set this all up on board?

Thanks for the help.
Colleen

It know it is easy to set up a yahoo account, how exactly I dont know because I have not done it but you should do that before you leave. It will faster on a better connection than trying to do that on the ship. Someone will post here exactly how to do that. My guess is go to www.yahoo.com and there will be instructions there.

Once onboard the email is very easy to use. You just log onto the internet and access your account. Your friends and family can email the yahoo account and you have great access to the email. It is a little slow but at least it is there.

Have a great time.

Colleen,
Here is the link to register for Yahoo mail.

The internet charges for the Diamond really are $6 an hour or you can buy bigger packages if you think you will use it alot. The only drawback is that sometimes, the connection is s-l-o-w!

Is Yahoo a better solution than an AOL account accessed via aol.com?

AOL always seems to have more problems. I dont know why. We are often on our email and those trying to get on AOL are complaining. There should not be that much difference but there seems to be.

Thanks, guys! I set up the account easily thanks to Karen's link - as per usual - and look forward to keeping in touch next week.

Colleen