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Posting for a friend: Anyone done Royal Caribbean's Southern Caribbean
Cruise out of San Juan in June? Interested in quality of food and services, amenities, size of staterooms, but most importantly wheelchair accessibility. Couple is mid-forties and fit: One fully ambulatory; the other needs a wheelchair, but can stand and walk short distances with assistance. This will be for a honeymoon. Stef |
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Stefan Patric wrote: Posting for a friend: Anyone done Royal Caribbean's Southern Caribbean Cruise out of San Juan in June? Interested in quality of food and services, amenities, size of staterooms, but most importantly wheelchair accessibility. Couple is mid-forties and fit: One fully ambulatory; the other needs a wheelchair, but can stand and walk short distances with assistance. This will be for a honeymoon. They should be sure and book an accessible cabin which will be the same cost as any other cabin in the category they want. Accessible cabins have wider doorways to allow wheelchair access and the cabins are large so storing it is not a problem. The doorway of regular cabins are not wide enough for a wheelchair. sue |
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"Sue Mullen" wrote in message ... Stefan Patric wrote: Posting for a friend: Anyone done Royal Caribbean's Southern Caribbean Cruise out of San Juan in June? Interested in quality of food and services, amenities, size of staterooms, but most importantly wheelchair accessibility. Couple is mid-forties and fit: One fully ambulatory; the other needs a wheelchair, but can stand and walk short distances with assistance. This will be for a honeymoon. They should be sure and book an accessible cabin which will be the same cost as any other cabin in the category they want. Accessible cabins have wider doorways to allow wheelchair access and the cabins are large so storing it is not a problem. The doorway of regular cabins are not wide enough for a wheelchair. sue Be sure to also inquire about the type of shower in the cabin. Our recent Ryndam cruise had tubs with HIGH sides, rather than a flat floor shower or even a step-in low based shower stall. With a broken shoulder, I still had no problem stepping over the 18" or so side for my daily shower, but Mrs. Nonny had a lot of difficulty. Outside of the tub issue, though, the Ryndam was very accessible otherwise. We also were on a Carnival ship (?, George Leppla would recall) out of Seattle a few years back and had just a regular cabin. The doors were too narrow to permit Mrs. Nonny's scooter inside at all and necessitated me turning it on end and dragging it in at night for charging. Also, many of the ships have an elevated threshold for access to deck areas, including the pool area on the Lido deck. It's not specific to any line in particular. While ramped, the 2" or so threshold can be a barrier to someone wheeling themselves in a manual chair or with a scooter that has a low clearance between the wheels. -- Nonny ELOQUIDIOT (n) A highly educated, sophisticated, and articulate person who has absolutely no clue concerning what they are talking about. The person is typically a media commentator or politician. |
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On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:48:31 -0800, "Nonny" wrote:
"Sue Mullen" wrote in message ... Stefan Patric wrote: Posting for a friend: Anyone done Royal Caribbean's Southern Caribbean Cruise out of San Juan in June? Interested in quality of food and services, amenities, size of staterooms, but most importantly wheelchair accessibility. Couple is mid-forties and fit: One fully ambulatory; the other needs a wheelchair, but can stand and walk short distances with assistance. This will be for a honeymoon. I see two of these on Serenade of the Seas. Is that the ship you were asking about?? (It would be better to say what ship) One itin. is: San Juan, Puerto Rico; Willemstad, Curacao; Oranjestad, Aruba; Roseau, Dominica; Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas; San Juan, Puerto Rico And the other one is San Juan, Puerto Rico; Bridgetown, Barbados; Castries, St. Lucia; St. John's, Antigua; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands; San Juan, Puerto Rico I looked because I wanted to know if there would be any tender ports, but it does not look like there are. I don't know how wheelchair accessible those ports are. They should be sure and book an accessible cabin which will be the same cost as any other cabin in the category they want. Accessible cabins have wider doorways to allow wheelchair access and the cabins are large so storing it is not a problem. The doorway of regular cabins are not wide enough for a wheelchair. sue Be sure to also inquire about the type of shower in the cabin. Our recent Ryndam cruise had tubs with HIGH sides, rather than a flat floor shower or even a step-in low based shower stall. With a broken shoulder, I still had no problem stepping over the 18" or so side for my daily shower, but Mrs. Nonny had a lot of difficulty. Outside of the tub issue, though, the Ryndam was very accessible otherwise. We also were on a Carnival ship (?, George Leppla would recall) out of Seattle a few years back and had just a regular cabin. The doors were too narrow to permit Mrs. Nonny's scooter inside at all and necessitated me turning it on end and dragging it in at night for charging. Also, many of the ships have an elevated threshold for access to deck areas, including the pool area on the Lido deck. It's not specific to any line in particular. While ramped, the 2" or so threshold can be a barrier to someone wheeling themselves in a manual chair or with a scooter that has a low clearance between the wheels. |
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Nonny wrote: Be sure to also inquire about the type of shower in the cabin. Our recent Ryndam cruise had tubs with HIGH sides, rather than a flat floor shower or even a step-in low based shower stall. With a broken shoulder, I still had no problem stepping over the 18" or so side for my daily shower, but Mrs. Nonny had a lot of difficulty. Outside of the tub issue, though, the Ryndam was very accessible otherwise. I thought that all accessible cabins would have roll in showers?? Also, many of the ships have an elevated threshold for access to deck areas, including the pool area on the Lido deck. It's not specific to any line in particular. While ramped, the 2" or so threshold can be a barrier to someone wheeling themselves in a manual chair or with a scooter that has a low clearance between the wheels. The higher barriers are even hard on someone in an electric wheelchair. My friend was able to get over them with some help, but it hurt her neck and also lossened up somethings on her chair. There were also a couple of places she just couldn't go, but that was on the Azamara Journey which is an older ship. sue |
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On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:38:19 -0500, Sue Mullen
wrote: wrote: On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:48:31 -0800, "Nonny" wrote: "Sue Mullen" wrote in message ... Stefan Patric wrote: Posting for a friend: Anyone done Royal Caribbean's Southern Caribbean Cruise out of San Juan in June? Interested in quality of food and services, amenities, size of staterooms, but most importantly wheelchair accessibility. Couple is mid-forties and fit: One fully ambulatory; the other needs a wheelchair, but can stand and walk short distances with assistance. This will be for a honeymoon. I see two of these on Serenade of the Seas. Is that the ship you were asking about?? (It would be better to say what ship) One itin. is: San Juan, Puerto Rico; Willemstad, Curacao; Oranjestad, Aruba; Roseau, Dominica; Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas; San Juan, Puerto Rico And the other one is San Juan, Puerto Rico; Bridgetown, Barbados; Castries, St. Lucia; St. John's, Antigua; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands; San Juan, Puerto Rico I looked because I wanted to know if there would be any tender ports, but it does not look like there are. I don't know how wheelchair accessible those ports are. You just reminded me of another issue, many ports are not wheelchair friendly. Since the person in question can walk a few steps, having a folding wheelchair to use in the ports would be very helpful and make more excursions possible. sue The three I mentioned in the other thread are all accessable by wheelchair, although in St.Martin you'll have to take the water taxi over to the main part of town which will mean in and out of the water taxi but it wasn't bad. |
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On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:38:11 -0500, gmbeasley wrote:
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:48:31 -0800, "Nonny" wrote: "Sue Mullen" wrote in message ... Stefan Patric wrote: Posting for a friend: Anyone done Royal Caribbean's Southern Caribbean Cruise out of San Juan in June? Interested in quality of food and services, amenities, size of staterooms, but most importantly wheelchair accessibility. Couple is mid-forties and fit: One fully ambulatory; the other needs a wheelchair, but can stand and walk short distances with assistance. This will be for a honeymoon. I see two of these on Serenade of the Seas. Is that the ship you were asking about?? (It would be better to say what ship) One itin. is: San Juan, Puerto Rico; Willemstad, Curacao; Oranjestad, Aruba; Roseau, Dominica; Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas; San Juan, Puerto Rico And the other one is San Juan, Puerto Rico; Bridgetown, Barbados; Castries, St. Lucia; St. John's, Antigua; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands; San Juan, Puerto Rico I didn't know the ship or itin. My friends didn't say. Just Southern Caribbean. Royal Caribbean. But if those two are the only Southern Caribbean trips, then it's probably Serenade of the Seas. Stef |
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Stefan Patric consulted a Magic 8 Ball and declared On 2/6/2010 1:34 AM:
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:38:11 -0500, gmbeasley wrote: On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:48:31 -0800, wrote: "Sue wrote in message ... Stefan Patric wrote: Posting for a friend: Anyone done Royal Caribbean's Southern Caribbean Cruise out of San Juan in June? Interested in quality of food and services, amenities, size of staterooms, but most importantly wheelchair accessibility. Couple is mid-forties and fit: One fully ambulatory; the other needs a wheelchair, but can stand and walk short distances with assistance. This will be for a honeymoon. I see two of these on Serenade of the Seas. Is that the ship you were asking about?? (It would be better to say what ship) One itin. is: San Juan, Puerto Rico; Willemstad, Curacao; Oranjestad, Aruba; Roseau, Dominica; Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas; San Juan, Puerto Rico And the other one is San Juan, Puerto Rico; Bridgetown, Barbados; Castries, St. Lucia; St. John's, Antigua; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands; San Juan, Puerto Rico I didn't know the ship or itin. My friends didn't say. Just Southern Caribbean. Royal Caribbean. But if those two are the only Southern Caribbean trips, then it's probably Serenade of the Seas. Stef Some tropical ports in the Caribbean can be mighty hot in June. If there's a lull in the breeze off the sea, a daytime outing anywhere without air conditioning or swimming in cool water can be mucho uncomfortable. Ask your friends if they don't mind the heat. -- ________ To email me, Edit "blog" from my email address. Brian M. Kochera "The poor dog is the firmest of friends, the first to welcome the foremost to defend" - Lord Byron View My Web Pages: http://home.earthlink.net/~brian1951 My Shutterfly Page http://photosbybrianmk.shutterfly.com/ |
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