One of the first things we were told upon boarding the ship was to turn our phones to airplane mode. Really? We paid for Internet access!

The next thing we were told was to log into the ship’s proprietary internet service, which – for reasons I still have yet to understand – works fine, even with airplane mode on.

Alas, lots of things we’ve come to expect do not work fine. Text, for example. And phone calls. 

And the phone’s display of the correct time.