Special Needs Equipment

[cruise love]

Hi All

 

i am travelling with my 89 year mother in Jan 2020 on the Ovation of  the Seas

 

She does not need an accessible cabin but needs to use a shower chair and a raised toilet seat

I can hire a portable scooter for her to use aboard ship 

Does any one know can I arrange these things through the ship or do I have to bring them with me

If it is too hard to arrange she can do without by they do make her life easier

 

Thanks in advance 

 

Cruise Love 

[The_Big_M]

I believe you have to bring those with you. 

[GUT2407]

I think the scooter is the only thing you need to bring, but if you bring a scooter you probably need an accessible cabin to get through the door.

[cruise love]

On 2/27/2019 at 7:22 AM, GUT2407 said:

I think the scooter is the only thing you need to bring, but if you bring a scooter you probably need an accessible cabin to get through the door.

the scooter I am looking at is a fold up portable one

i saw someone use one on a cruise in Mexico last year and have found a place that hires them in Sydney

 

Cruise love

[GUT2407]

2 hours ago, cruise love said:

the scooter I am looking at is a fold up portable one

i saw someone use one on a cruise in Mexico last year and have found a place that hires them in Sydney

 

Cruise love

But will you be able to get it through the door to your cabin.

 

i have one chair that folds like a stroller so is still too wide to wheel into a standard cabin and needs to be lifted in, my old chair folded like a manual wheelchair so could be wheeled in.

 

cabin doorways are around 22”.

[LokiPoki]

Shower stool can be provided upon request - though the ones I’ve had provided are very basic - small, no arms or back (and honestly, anything bigger probably wouldn’t fit into the shower cubicle). I have had a raised seat on one cruise, but it was a total and utter nuisance - took up already limited space, and also prevented the toilet lid ‘sealing’ - so the thing would never flush properly. 

 

Just get in touch with special needs/access dept for whoever you’re cruising with.