CR/BLT/AKL Business Centers or computers?

[glvsav37]

Doing split stay at AKL and BLT. In past trips, I would bring my laptop to backup and free up space on my camera SD Cards. I'd like to travel laptop free this time, but still want to be able backup our stuff.

I know the CR and AKL have business centers, but does BLT have anywhere where we can use a computer? And even at the business centers, I know there is a charge to use the computers/internet
access which is fine, but is the internet fast enough that I won't be spending 5+ hours uploading my images to Dropbox?

What is the going rate for the internet at the business center?

thanks!

 

[glvsav37]

After some poking around, I may have found a solution.

RavPower WiFi Disk Power Bank

apparently you can plug your cards into this, and it has built in wifi so you can transfer your pictures to another device. I cant find anything about DripBox, Google Photos or iCloud (places I would prefer to put my photos) but I'll tool around with it when I get it. It does a few other things I don't really need right now, but hopefully for the purpose it works.
For $30ish, its better than spending time and money at the WDW biz center.

There are a few others like this, Kinston makes one slightly more expensive, and Western Digital makes an external hard drive with wifi and a card reader.

(I have no affiliation with these guys, just posting in case anyone else may have the same needs)

 

[MaryJaneP]

Or buy multiple SD cards. Expensive solution.

 

[Disney4family]

This is what the Disney site shows for BLT -

Business Center
Computers, fax machines, copy machines and secretarial services are located on the 1st floor of Disney's Contemporary Resort Convention Center. Fees apply for secretarial services.

 

[elhefe4]

I have the old version of that RAVPower hub and it works great, but you're right about it not working with those cloud storage providers. Using an app on your phone you could transfer photos to an external USB hard drive or flash drive or you could move the photos to your phone and then send them up to the cloud. It's probably cheaper than using Disney's computers but I'm not sure it would be worth the additional hassle of moving everything to your phone and then to the cloud. If you already have flash drives or external hard drives, it might be worth it. Then you could free up SD card space and then bulk upload everything from the drives when you get home.

 

[glvsav37]

I have the old version of that RAVPower hub and it works great, but you're right about it not working with those cloud storage providers. Using an app on your phone you could transfer photos to an external USB hard drive or flash drive or you could move the photos to your phone and then send them up to the cloud. It's probably cheaper than using Disney's computers but I'm not sure it would be worth the additional hassle of moving everything to your phone and then to the cloud. If you already have flash drives or external hard drives, it might be worth it. Then you could free up SD card space and then bulk upload everything from the drives when you get home.

this is where I'm thinking. I'd love to go right from the cards to Google photos or Dropbox, and i'll do some tests at home, but if the internet is too slow, then I may go with the external HD route. I have a bunch of small HD's laying around that I can bring. I really just need a good way of getting the photos/video off the SD cards.

Thanks for the input everyone. I know.... I'm neurotic about data and backing up photos. Esp at a place like WDW where there is so much going on and cameras can get stollen, I hate having all your memories on 1 thing. We are doing 14 days, and with a HD camera and a GoPro, I suspect we will be taking up a lot of data.

 

[slappy magoo]

Or buy multiple SD cards. Expensive solution.

Not knowing the kind of memory card the OP needs, but Amazon currently has 128GB Class 10 microsd cards from sandisk on sale for less than $40, which probably would be cheaper than the cost of using any of the rental centers at WDW over the course of a trip, and save time as well
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-micro...89192&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=128gb+microsdcard

They also have a 200GB card same brand and class for $80.

 

[glvsav37]

Not knowing the kind of memory card the OP needs, but Amazon currently has 128GB Class 10 microsd cards from sandisk on sale for less than $40, which probably would be cheaper than the cost of using any of the rental centers at WDW over the course of a trip, and save time as well
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-micro...89192&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=128gb+microsdcard

They also have a 200GB card same brand and class for $80.

thanks @slappy magoo ...for me its not just a matter of how much storage, it's also not having everything on 1 card just in case something happens. I'm just a bit crazy about backing things up (I have a mini RAID system in my house for all of our files, family pictures and video and work files....plus a mirrored off-site cloud backup). The transfer unit I found was only $30 (so around the same cost of the large cards) and I have an external HD at home I'll use as my daily backup.

We do 14 days, so I expect a bunch of photos and videos.

 

[mhaftman7]

Do NOT use the business center. I had an emergency that I needed to use the business center and I dropped the best part of $100 for 2 hours of use.