Carnival Cruise Line adds an item to banned list

Following Royal Caribbean adding multi-plug outlets to its banned items list, Carnival — which still allows those — has expanded its own prohibited items list. That is something that renowned cruise influencer Tony Barnette shared on his YouTube page.

"I stumbled across a YouTube video that became in my algorithm last night. No Pants Profits. And the host over there, Richard, has a reasonably interesting internet tale. He did something that I hadn't heard any one doing before. He took the new Starlink Mini internet onto the Carnival Miracle," Barnette said.

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The Starlink Mini is a conveyable version of the satellite internet devices sold by Elon Musk's SpaceX's Starlink. They are in regards to the dimensions of a record album and cost roughly $600.

"So the first video that I see from No Pants Profits, Richard has brought a Starlink Mini  onto the Carnival Miracle, and he does a demo of it right there on the Lido deck. He pops out the receiver and he plops it down right next to the pool," consistent with Barnette.

Richard proceeded to do an illustration of how the Starlink Mini device works.

"He does a demo and he gets fast internet, faster than what the cruise ship internet is. And it truly is certainly more cost-effective than the cruise ship internet. There's likely to be a sunk cost into buying the Mini. I've no idea if there is a monthly recurring fee, but 600 bucks for the device," he shared.

There's likely to be a monthly data fee for the Starlink Mini which ranges between $50 and $165 in line with the user's data needs.

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Carnival bans the Starlink Mini

For an everyday cruiser, it truly is feasible that Starlink Mini should be more cost-effective than ship internet, but Carnival has taken steps so 't happen.

"But yeah, so he works it out, he tries it out. After which in video number two, while things go sour, Richard and his friend at first of the video...reenact when security came and grabbed Richard and took him to the place of job, (10:06) I've got faith in the hotel director, to the naughty place of job," Barnette shared. "And that they told him, look, we have gotten word from on high, word from the corporate place of job that we're gonna confiscate your Starlink Mini."

At the time of the video, satellite dish-style devices were now not specifically banned. That has been changed.

"It now says satellite dish, routers, and other like internet infrastructure pieces," he added.

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Barnette speculated that the devices is likely to be banned because they're going to interfere with the ship's communications he also suggested the motive is likely to be financial.

"If a person can bring a less expensive way to use the internet onboard the cruise ship rather then purchasing the expensive internet on a cruise ship then I may perchance see a business being against that. Same the reason is, it's possible you will perchance possibly not only bring a complete bar of alcohol with you. They'd rather sell you the drink package," he added.

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