Essiesmom

Cunard and MSC complain about theirs, too. EM

You posted this same question here back on Sept. 28. You had one answer that might be of some help. EM

Wouldn’t it be a moot point if each person is running a separate account/tab? Separate cards, each get their own spend points. EM

If you have a hospital supply store in reasonable driving distance, they might have one you could practice on…. EM

The large tenders based at HMC will accommodate a scooter. There are paths around the island and the picnic area. However, scooters do not do well on the beach. EM

May I make a suggestion? There is a website called cruisedeckplans.com. People submit cabin pictures to it. It is a pay site for most members, but accessible cabins can be viewed without a membership. Pull up the website, choose your cruise line, then your ship, and scroll down the cabin categories on the left. Those with accessible cabins will have ‘handicap’ to click on, and it will list the cabins, and if there are any with pictures there will be a very small camera icon you can click on. some cruise lines have ships by ‘class’, such as the vista class of HAL, which includes four ships. If you are looking at a ship in that class, but there is no picture of the type cabin you want, choose another ship in that class, as cabin layout will be the same. There is another board here called Disabled Cruising that talks a lot about cabins, and this thread may be moved there. EM

Depends on the cruise line, type of cabin, making sure it is fully accessible, not ambulatory accessible. EM

How large do you need? Many of the accessible cabins I have seen are the size of suites. Others not so much. EM

There are pictures of some of these cabins on QE and QV on cruisedeckplans.com. For those who are fanatical about cabin position, layout, etc. membership is a must. There is a nominal fee to join, but you can recoup it easily be submitting your own cabin and ship pictures. EM

They said May at the beginning of their post. EM

Have you asked on the board here for Star Clippers what others have done, or on the ports of call board for Costa Rica, which is under Caribbean. EM

Neither of those itineraries are legal according to the PVSA, unless they visit the ABC islands, or Cartagena. Quite doable on the FLL to NOLA itinerary, it would make the cruise ending in NYC quite long, or with few other ports. EM

Scratch the Nieuw Amsterdam itinerary, not interesting at all. Not good for a first cruise. Either of the others would be fine. HAL will be an older demographic, very few children. Reflection might have a few more kids, but not a lot as schools will just have restarted after the holidays. Cabins will be equal. Reflection will be larger than NS. I think the balconies on NS may be a little shallower than on HALs other classes of ships. EM

Go to www.cruisetimetables.com and choose your cruise line. That will show you a brief picture and stats on each ship in alphabetical order. But there is a menu bar above to click on each class, and that will show the ships in that class. In the case of HAL, it can be confusing because the newest ship is Rotterdam, and is in the Pinnacle class. But there is also a Rotterdam class, R, which was the first ship in a smaller, older class of ships, only two left. EM

Paging @chengkp75 to the white courtesy phone…. EM

Or written by those who only travel with delicate fabrics that don’t handle hot water well…EM

They will wand him instead. EM

For your questions about hotel and transfers, visit the Florida Departures board, under North American Homeports. EM

I would not worry much about what they might miss this trip. They are young, late 30’s, so they have plenty of years/cruises ahead to come back to see what they missed. It’s not like they are in their dotage and this is a bucket list item. EM

Yes, it’s sad. But there is a very large population of people who have no interest in exploration, education, enrichment. All they want is a beach somewhere, or a series of beaches. I had wanted to explore the world from the time I could read. EM

But in Sept there were no Panama Canal cruises, and the October ones are eastbound. EM

MSC seems to be sailing from/visiting Rotterdam instead of Amsterdam. EM

I like to suggest www.cruisetimetables.com as a good research tool. You can search cruises from departure port, ports visited, cruise line or ship…. It’s a site you can get lost in, spend hours searching cruises. EM

I see them on the Eurodam deck plans, port side Lido deck. EM

It’s the same on my iPad. EM