Scotmay

I absolutely know this. His power chair collapses and turns sideways and will fit through the door. I made a point of buying a TRAVEL chair!

Thank you! I have been worried about this. He has travelled with his walker in the past, but now needs the chair. We are going to Alaska on the Crown in a few weeks’ time.

My hubby is hoping to bring his power wheelchair. Our son will be dropping us off at the ship in Vancouver ( where we live). Can we get right into the dock for easier drop off for my hubby. Do they make any allowances for the disabled.

What does PES stand for?

We are on the Crown on 15th of September. My hubby is disabled and I “think” I read somewhere you can drive right down to P2 level to drop off passengers and luggage. Can you confirm this please. Obviously would make it much easier for us. Thank you

Canadian here. Hubby and I like CDN rye, but always find rye brands quite limited. Anybody any experience with this.

Can I reserve 2 seats every night at a table for 8, but with different people every night?

I don’t think so. I think you should wear what you feel comfortable in. I do not think that Princess will turn their back on their older, loyal customers. Not for 1 minute do I think that. This would be so foolish on their part! During these days of uncertainty and higher mortgages and much higher prices etc., sometimes only seniors can afford to cruise!

My husband can still transfer to bed quite easily. He can also get away with using a walker instead of a chair, although for any length of getting around, sightseeing etc., his power chair is obviously so much easier for him. The ship builders really didn’t do their homework when it came to including disabled people in their ship’s design, considering that seniors are a big portion of their customers! We need to start lobbying for more inclusivity on behalf of our family members!

Thank you all. I was aware of some of these points, but not the exact measurements of the door to the cabins. There were no accessible cabins left when I booked. Let’s hope all who booked them did so honestly! I think we will just have to take his walker instead of his power wheelchair! Thank you!

Thank you. The size of our wheelchair could be a problem. Excellent info. Thank you.

Can you take your own wheelchair on a Princess cruise. Are there any rules regarding size, batteries etc.,. Thank you for any up to date info.

To those of you on the Crown today, how is the ship. I am about to book, but kept hearing of missing ports etc., because of loss of one engine!

How can I get out of this whole stream of posts on this subject. It’s giving me a headache. I no longer want to participate with Princess in any way. Too many other cruise lines that don’t take up all this amount of valuable time.

This is way too much to expect the paying public to accept.

I’m just so fed up with the whole medallion/app thing and the fact that we as “paying customers” have to spend so much time on it. I think we are going to be “moving on”.

We were on C730 and still had very loud engine noise!

Just returned from a cruise on the Enchanted. The inside cabins on this ship are ridiculously small. We did book late, but found that our cabin was pretty close to unusable. We couldn’t get an accessible cabin, as none available. My hubby uses a walker and we couldn’t even get it in the main door. I would tell everyone don’t book these cabins! In fact I question whether I would book Princess again due to their lack of tours for the disabled and size of indoor cabins!

Thank you!

You completely missed the point. There were tours available, just not for people with mobility aides. As I said, at the last minute we were offered a 2 places on one of these tours which they said were not for people with mobility aides, which my hubby managed to do. We are not stupid we don’t buy tours we are not capable of doing. This was after a few visits to the Tour Desk! This needs to be improved.

we found that not all tours were available to assemgers who used wheelchairs, scooters or walkers and in fact none were available yesterday in Barbados. We had to have a very serious discussion with a senior officer in the Tours Dept before 2 seats were miraculously o0ened up for us. I will have many more questions in the future re: the disabled!

My husband uses a walker and has balance problems. I am on a Princess cruise at the moment and after experiencing some negativity from Princess, I am good ng to make sure in the future to book an accessible cabin and to ask more questions re: how my husband is treated as far as his disability is concerned. We have been loyal customers with Princess cruises, but will definitely be shopping around with other cruise lines to see how they cater for disabled passengers!

We’ll, first of all we are not Americans, we are Canadians and would not under any circumstances sue Princess for this. We did go back to the Excursion desk and spoke to a “senior Person” in this department and she did in fact offer us a “special 2 seats” on one of their Barbados tours. I did explain to her that firstly the paragraph stating no wheelchairs, scooters and walkers was in much smaller and lighter print and should even be in much bolder print, so that people like us don’t waste our time buying these tours! Secondly they need to get creative and figure out ways to allow disabled people to see around these ports! Thirdly these tours were available, just not available to the disabled! Surely we can find ways to have disabled people feel inclusive. Lastly, I wonder how many disabled people did not get to see Barbados because they didn’t speak up about this like us!

I am just so upset about this and I don’t seem to be getting any help from the Tours Desk. We are on 2 - 10 day cruises back to back and thought we would leave tours until this portion of our cruises only to find out nothing is available to us because my husband uses a walker.

Should be 18th & 28th January.