tender access on ovation of the seas

[rabbit1971]

Hi,

 My family are travelling on the Ovation of the seas for a transpacific crossing in april next year. This is the first time we have travelled with Royal carribean, having previously cruised with carnival and princess. My question is, what is access to the tender like? My youngest is in a wheel chair, and we have found varying degress of difficulty on different ships. If anyone is cruising on ovation soon, if they could post photos of where the tenders sit next to the ship, and where you disembark from at the island jetty, that would be amazing.I have found it can vary greatly, some ships you walk on to the tender and disembark the tender, from the same location. On others you walk off the ship onto the top of the tender, then to disemabark you walk downstairs on the tender, to get to the jetty on a lower level.

 We are trying to decide if trying to get him off on the tendered ports is worth it with a manual chair, or to remain on the ship and have his powered chair.

 I hope this post is not too confusing.

 cheers maree

[taglovestocruise]

26 minutes ago, rabbit1971 said:

Hi,

 My family are travelling on the Ovation of the seas for a transpacific crossing in april next year. This is the first time we have travelled with Royal carribean, having previously cruised with carnival and princess. My question is, what is access to the tender like? My youngest is in a wheel chair, and we have found varying degress of difficulty on different ships. If anyone is cruising on ovation soon, if they could post photos of where the tenders sit next to the ship, and where you disembark from at the island jetty, that would be amazing.I have found it can vary greatly, some ships you walk on to the tender and disembark the tender, from the same location. On others you walk off the ship onto the top of the tender, then to disemabark you walk downstairs on the tender, to get to the jetty on a lower level.

 We are trying to decide if trying to get him off on the tendered ports is worth it with a manual chair, or to remain on the ship and have his powered chair.

 I hope this post is not too confusing.

 cheers maree

We did the transpacific Victoria to Honolulu on Quantum last year, tender port was Lahaina and it was God Awful.  3 - 4 foot swells and they were literally throwing guests from the tender up to the ship, it was a good 2 foot upward jump to get off the tender. If the seas were calm it would be a piece of cake. I would make a decision the morning you tender.