Contact Information M/V PLANCIUS
The Plancius is equipped with Internet and phone facilities (subject to satellite connection and
coverage). WiFi Internet access is available in the observation lounge. In each cabin you can connect
your own laptop to the network (network cable required) as well there are three laptops available for
public use in the library. You can either purchase full access to the Internet or purchase a shipboard
E-mail account for the duration of the voyage.
1. Direct access to the Internet is provided by using access cards.
Cards are available at the reception in 10, 30, or 100 megabyte denominations. Prices are:
10MB for € 15,- / 30 MB € 25,- / 100MB for €60,- (unused data at the end of your trip is nonrefundable).
Please be advised that Internet at sea is considerably slower than at home and some pages like
Hotmail and AOL may take many minutes and a considerable amount of data to load.
2. As an alternative if you wish to control your costs and just need Email access you can create a
shipboard Email account.
This will just cost you:
€ 15,- for a 7-10 day trip / € 20,- for a 11-12 day trip.
You can stay connected to the local network as long as you like and send/ receive up to approx. 30
pages of text per day for no additional costs. Note that sending attachments with this system will
incur additional costs and your total daily allowance is 100k. Any amount over this will be charged at
€ 0,05 cents a kilobyte.
Please be aware that you are sailing in remote areas and there may be blind spots (surrounded by
mountains for instance). As long there is coverage there is Internet.
Telephone calls can be made from the ship as well.
From the bridge € 2,50 per minute (ask Hotel manager / HM assistant to assist). Or from your cabin
at a cost of € 20,00 for approximately 40 minutes. Get a pin code from HM or HM asst.
Note: when speaking there is a delay between each speaker.
In case of emergency, the ship can be reached at the following Satellite telephone numbers:
+ 870773223426
+ 881622411434
or an email can be send to the ships hotel manager [email protected].
The cost of this call depends on the costs charged by our provider. Remember satellite calls are quite
expensive. E-mails send to the ship will be charged to the receiver, please do not send attachments
and only use in case of emergency.
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