We will be sailing next month. Plan to take lots of photos,
What IF I need to dump some photos?
Please Help !

By dumping photos, do you mean taking them off your camera's memory card? There are several choices: You can buy more memory cards, you can have the ship's photographer burn a CD for you for a fee and then erase your card or you can bring a laptop to transfer to or a storage device.
The easy way to to bring as many memory cards (Secure Digital or Compact Flash or if you have Sony they are Memory Stick) as you need.

Everything Kathy says will work nicely but, my personnal choice is a thumb drive. Then you can use the ship's computers to edit (if desired) and download. We did this everynight on out Auckland to LA trip (19 days) and ended up with a nice sorted set of pictures on my thumb drive. I did use a 1G drive because that's what I use at work but a smaller one would be fine for a shorter trip (also depends a bit on the resolution you save at).

Greg

Ebay has great deals on 1 gb memory cards, so convenient to have such a large amount of memory. I use my older 512mb memory cards to take video.

Gee, Greg - do they have card readers on the Voyager? I thought they took them out so the ships photographer could sell the CD's! I'd be really thrilled to bring a couple thumb drives to off load my photos or burn my own cd's.

They did when we were in the Baltic summer before last and did on Mariner this fall.
Greg

I think I'll throw a couple Cd's in the packing mix and a thumbdrive or two....

I was planning on bringing a lap top to download photos and video clips and burn CD's/DVD's on the June 10 PG outing. Do any of you know if it is common for people to bring lap tops? I think first and business class on Air Tahiti also have power plugs so we can hopefully spend some of the air transit time editing pictures.

I hate to sound like a complete illiterate, but can someone please tell me what a thumb drive is? Is it easy to use?

This is a "Thumb drive" actually they come in several "flavors". You just plug them into a USB port and use it like a floppy disk or CD.

I generally bring my own card reader and thumb drive. I use the computer center to download my pics with the card reader, sort them quickly and then save the decent ones to the thumb drive. This system worked well on the Voyager last November. The card reader and thumb drives don't really take any room and it's more convenient than bringing my computer and CDs.

I have brought my computer along (generally because I need to do work!) so I can verify that Business class on Air Tahiti Nui does have power plugs - I used them last July on our trip.

Have a great trip.

Mary Ellen

Just a work of caution...a few years ago, I packed a few cd's in my checked luggage. When it went through screening, they yanked my bag and went through every square inch. He finally came to the cd's and told me that they will red flag the luggage more often than not.

Sheri - I'd never pack those Cd's in checked luggage with the irreplaceable photos on them. I take better care of those photos than I do of anything else I travel with (except Frank and the camera!)

No and neither would I...I was referring to the empty cd's on the way TO vacation. :)