If you haven't already seen their accessible guidance, see here (scroll to Accessible Cruising). Princess will need to know you are bringing mobility equipment and will have you complete a mobility questionnaire. If it is unclear, contact Princess' Access Department or Shore Excursion Department.ĭo you have an accessible stateroom? (Maximum width of a scooter for a non-accessible stateroom is 22".) Your scooter will have to be stored in your stateroom when you are not out and about using it. Read the "special notes" on your excursion description some say "Not suitable for wheelchair guests because of the few steps and the gravel" or similar. Very few excursions accommodate scooters (unless it's a small fold-up type). The transport chair is used at the airport, hotel and getting aboard the ship (usually his scooter is already in our stateroom when we get there).ĭepending on what type of vehicle your tour is using, it may be able to accommodate a collapsible wheelchair. My husband has a collapsible transport chair and he rents a scooter for the cruise. Hopefully, those that have used collapsible wheelchairs will reply. It is where your fellow Cruise Critic members with physical limitations share their advice & experiences.
To help you out, your new thread has been moved to the Disabled Cruise Travel forum where it will be on topic. Your inquiry concerns cruising with a collapsible wheelchair and really should be on another forum for replies from other cruisers using collapsible wheelchairs. Hello you for your new topic on the Ask a Cruise Question forum! However, it is the forum for general questions regarding cruising. There's no point in adding a collapsible wheelchair to our luggage if that wouldn't work either. I'm hoping someone has some experience with this and could give me some advice. 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. 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. 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. Hardly any of them are wheelchair accessible. 20, 2023), but my question is how to handle shore excursions. I know this isn't a problem on the ship (Ruby Princess out of Port Canaveral, partial Panama Canal transit leaving Nov. 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.