Wheelchair access to Princess Cays?

[jtaves]

I'm looking into a Carribean cruise with my mother-in-law who will be using a wheelchair. I wonder if anyone can tell me if she'll be able to go to Princess Cays? I understand it's a tender port, but I'm not sure if that means she won't be able to disembark. And once on land, is it wheelchair accessible?

[cjh]

If the waters are calm she will be able to roll onto the tender boat. The left side of the island is wheelchair accessible as far as there is a path that a chair can go down. They have beach wheelchairs but they wouldn't let us use one they said they were for emergency use only.

 

DO NOT rent a cabana they are all on the side of the island that you have to climb stairs to go over a bridge.

[jtaves]

Thanks for the info. It's a great help.

[robseat]

We just returned from Princess Cays, yesterday. (Caribbean Princess) We had a WONDERFUL time, maybe because we didn't expect to even go ashore at all. DH is a full-time wheelchair user. They did have to do a quick lift onto the tender, but was fairly easy. We had a nice calm day, and I can see how more motion would make this difficult. There is a little pavilion that goes out into the water -- the pavement ends about 25 feet before the boardwalk to the pavilian, but the sand was very firm, and I had not trouble tipping back the wheelchair and getting through the sand. We could see the beautiful fish in the rocks. Lots of places to sit in a wheelchair -- in shade or in sun. We just enjoyed watching the other people enjoying the snorkling, kayaks, etc. and had a really good lunch too, with LOTS of good fruit.