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Great! Thanks so much for your reply.

Do you know if you can use a scooter to get on the ship? Is the gangway accessible with regard to slope and width? The transport chair I have is OK for me to push on relatively level ground, but with any kind of an upward incline I wouldn't be able to do it. I'm hoping he could use his mobility scooter to get onto the ship. Thanks!

We do have an accessible stateroom. I just bought a collapsible transport chair/rollator combination that I think will solve most of our problems! I might not even need the scooter if we have this. It's a matter of how independently he wants to go around the ship. With this, he'd need me to push because he just can't go any tremendous distance walking. With the scooter he can get around on his own. We'll have to decide. But this collapses to a manageable size and only weighs around 22 pounds, so I think it will work really well. Thanks so much for your reply!

Thanks so much - same to you!

Thanks so much Idubs! I will definitely look into the collapsible wheelchair, then.

Thanks so much, Capriccio. Considering all the things I'm juggling, I'd much rather park at the pier than an off-site lot even if the cost is a bit higher. The only thing putting me off was the inability to reserve a space. I feel much better about it now!!

We have cruised many times, but at this point my husband has very limited mobility so for the first time we are traveling with a mobility scooter. I know this isn't a problem on the ship (Ruby Princess out of Port Canaveral, partial Panama Canal transit leaving Nov. 20, 2023), but my question is how to handle shore excursions. Hardly any of them are wheelchair accessible. He can walk short distances and handle a few steps, but he could never walk hundreds of yards or more down a pier to get to the van or whatever is taking us on the tour we signed up for. As you might imagine, we signed up only for "easy" excursions, which require little or no effort once you get to the conveyance you're taking - but I don't know if they could accommodate his mobility scooter. So I was thinking I could bring a long a collapsible wheelchair to get him to the van or whatever, and perhaps there would be space to put that so we'd be able to go out on the excursion. I'm hoping someone has some experience with this and could give me some advice. There's no point in adding a collapsible wheelchair to our luggage if that wouldn't work either. Thanks for any help you can give me!

I am traveling with my husband on a Princess Cruise leaving Nov. 20 from Port Everglades. I understand that you cannot reserve parking at the port. He is somewhat disabled so I'll have to deal with a mobility scooter and a collapsible wheel chair in addition to luggage. It would be a huge problem for us if there were no spaces available in that lot. Have you ever found it full, or is that just not an issue? Thanks!

It would be great if your explanation could be posted on the Princess site, or even if Princess just made sure all of their employees were aware of it. So far three out of three (two in LiveChat and one on the phone) have told me that this was not possible and I'd have to purchase the package for multiple devices. Hopefully they will straighten this out sooner rather than later even though they might lose a few dollars in the process when people stop purchasing unnecessary upgrades.

Thanks cavecreekguy and bubbaed. The process you describe is exactly what I imagined it should be, so I'm really glad to know that it works very similarly to a hotel that limits devices. You can have as many as you want, but you can only use one or two simultaneously. This sounds even easier than that as it is so automatic, and it's really helpful to know that you can still use your phone to order things while on your computer. Thank you so much for the detailed explanation!!

This is so good to know! I have had two separate LiveChat agents tell me that you couldn't do this and I just had a hard time believing that it would be impossible. It will save me about $400 for the two of us.to just switch devices rather than purchase the upgrade. Thanks!

I apologize if this has been recently asked and answered, but I couldn't find it so here goes . . . My husband and I are scheduled to sail on a Panama Canal cruise on the Ruby Princess in October, 2023. If you select a package that allows you internet for one device does this mean that just a single device can be registered for the duration of the cruise, or that only one device can be on the network at a time? For example, if I have internet on my smartphone but I want to use my computer, can I take the smartphone off the network and then, when I'm done with the computer, take that off the network and put the smartphone back on? Or would that require that I purchase a package that allows multiple devices? I can't find the answer to this specific question written anywhere on the Princess site, and I have found this question answered both ways on other websites. The multiple device package is a lot more expensive and I don't want to purchase it if I don't have to. If you have direct experience with this, could you please let me know? Thanks very much!