bearlyfree

On 2/12/2020 at 5:39 PM, bearlyfree said:

 

thank you for your input

thanks for your info. 

47 minutes ago, cruise_mojo said:

just back from a Disney trip we rented a length of stay scooter from scooter bug at the Disney Caribbean for 195 for a whole week although we were only there for 6 days for 195 and that included inshonce and a few other goodies that's a great deal for a 4 wheel victory ten 

 

but I felt kind of sketchy in the short run with scootaround in jaxport we've rented with them plenty of times on 7 day royal cruises from cape c and tampa but on ecstasy they said online and the phone they only had the normal 400lb available in jax even after being on hold for about 10 minutes then for a four day cruise they were charging me like 275 or 280 for insurance and cancellation insurance too! we had some points to redeem so took the deal and end payment was like 260 ish for a 4 day cruise!!!

 

ouch!!!  anyway the nice carnival ladies when we got to the terminal let me know instantly they had big blue a scooter that a guy had specially delivered to them a couple years ago thru scootaround that is a 500+ maxima scooter of prides so they let me have it but they also told me they'd have rented to me a lot cheaper had I just waited till I got to port, of course they only had the one - I'd have been fine with a victory ten as long as Id have gotten up the boarding ramp and they may have had to push me a bit since that new ramp is a steep back and forth deal and you can't board accessible people at ground level like they used to for years there. 

 

anyway we had a great time but no way will that monster fit in the room on the balcony accessible rooms, its almost as wide as the hallways! it might fit into the main and Riviera deck cabins though 

 

 

 

I loved cruising but the difficulty of walking and standing has gotten very prohibitive. For the last few years I send my husband on the excursions and I stay of the ship. We are doing 2 Celebrity cruises in the Spring and I am interested in renting a scooter or a wheelchair so I can enjoy the ports. Can anyone tell me if it is prohibitive to take the scooter or wheelchair on the excursions on Celebrity? I think the scooter would be hard to take on excursions and the wheel chair would fold up easier if allowed. Any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated.

On 6/2/2019 at 12:58 PM, Going Coastal said:

On a more serious note, I would like to commend special needs at sea for their problem solving for me on a recent cruise. If there are no issues, I think any of the approved companies are fine but SN really stepped up this time. 

I was on Solstice from Sydney to Honolulu and rented a scooter because of the size of the ship. The scooter was erratic at low speeds and I am not comfortable using high speed in groups of people. Our room steward who had brought the scooter to the cabin confirmed this and I emailed Kenya at SN. She said she would let housekeeping on the ship know and within 20 minutes an officer came and checked the scooter and by the time I returned from breakfast, it had been replaced by one that ran fine at low speed. 

I am hugely grateful to both SN and Celebrity for this service and will always use Special Needs at Sea when renting equipment.