2 nights on the MSC Virtuosa from and return to Southampton. We actually hadn’t planned on sailing with MSC again, from our last cruise with MSC we wasn’t impressed and it wasn’t for us. We were booked on P&O Aurora for 3 nights beginning of July 2022 but this was cancelled due to her still…
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Disabled, full time wheelchair user who loves to cruise with hubby and live each day as your last, when I can!
Accessible Port Guide For A Scandinavia / Baltic Cruise
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude. Kristiansand Kristiansand is a city in southern Norway. Its old town, Posebyen, features…
Accessible Port Guide For A Caribbean Cruise
The Caribbean is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands and the surrounding coasts. The region is southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland, east of Central America and north of South America islets, reefs and cays. The Caribbean is one of the most popular…
Accessible Port Guide For A Northern Europe Mini Cruise
Mini cruises are a great if you are new to cruising and would like to sample cruising before committing to a longer holiday onboard. Many cruise ships feature mini cruises to some of northern Europe’s nicest cities such as Bruges, Paris and some of the Channel Islands. Zeebrugge (Bruges) Bruges, the capital of West Flanders…
Accessible Port Guide For A Mediterranean Cruise
The Mediterranean countries are those that surround the Mediterranean Sea or located within the Mediterranean Basin.[1] Twenty sovereign countries in Southern Europe, the Levant and North Africa regions border the sea itself, in addition to two island nations completely located in it (Malta and Cyprus). Barcelona Spain Barcelona, the cosmopolitan capital of Spain’s Catalonia region,…
Princess Cruises Pool & Hot Tub Hoists
One of the many questions that I get asked is, “Are there hoists for the pools or hot tubs”? I have recently reached out to a lot of cruise liners with this question and I’m awaiting still to hear back but….. Princess cruises got back to me recently with this wonderful information and some great…
Accessible Port Guide For A Norwegian Fjords Cruise
Norway is a Scandinavian country encompassing mountains, glaciers and deep coastal fjords. Oslo, the capital, is a city of green spaces and museums. Preserved 9th-century Viking ships are displayed at Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum. Bergen, with colorful wooden houses, is the starting point for cruises to the dramatic Sognefjord. Norway is also known for fishing,…
Accessible Port Guide For Ireland & Iceland Cruise
Ireland The Republic of Ireland occupies most of the island of Ireland, off the coast of England and Wales. Its capital, Dublin, is the birthplace of writers like Oscar Wilde, and home of Guinness beer. The 9th-century Book of Kells and other illustrated manuscripts are on show in Dublin’s Trinity College Library. Dubbed the “Emerald…
Accessible Port Guide For A Canary Island Cruise. Includes Cadiz, Vigo, Lisbon & Madeira
The Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the coast of northwestern Africa, are rugged volcanic isles known for their black- and white-sand beaches. Tenerife, the largest island, is dominated by the sometimes-snowy active volcano Mt. Teide, which has its own astronomical observatory and is part of Teide National Park. Tenerife hosts a huge pre-Lent Carnival…
Enchanted Princess 15th May to 20th May 2022 5 Nights
5 nights on Enchanted Princess from and to Southampton May 2022. This was our first real cruise since the pandemic started except our staycation last year. We booked this as a little extra cruise due to how cheap it was. It was 5 nights to Zeebrugge, Rotterdam and Guernsey, however we decided to stay on…
Sky Princess, 4 Nights, 1st UK Staycation Covid Pandemic 30th Aug 21 – 3rd Sept 21 Adapted Club Class Mini Suite B433
This was the Sky Princess’s 1st cruise in 17 months and it’s inaugural sailing from Southampton UK. Well what a few years it has been for us all! Sadly many haven’t survived and many are still very sick, companies have been hit hard and it has just been really rough. In this Pandemic I was…
Wheelchair accessible staterooms for all Princess Cruises fleet.
Crown Princess cont… Diamond & Sapphire Princess Cont… Discovery, Enchanted & Sky Princess Cont… Emerald & Ruby Princess Cont… Grand Princess Cont… Island Princess Cont… Majestic, Royal & Regal Princess Cont…
Wheelchair accessible cabins for all P&O fleet
Please see below a chart of the cabins and grades of the wheelchair accessible cabins on the P&O ships, I hope this help people out. Iona, inside accessible cabins have been reclassified as PARTIALLY ACCESSIBLE. This is due to the turning circle not being big enough for certain mobility aids, such as scooters, basically they…
Accessibility in Madeira for wheelchairs
Madeira Right in the middle of the Atlantic, The sub-tropical island of Madeira is located in the Atlantic Ocean around 960 kilometres southwest of Lisbon.the island of Madeira is a haven of natural beauty. The exotic colours of the flowers stand out from among the blue sea and the emerald green vegetation; this is an…
Celebrity Silhouette Ireland and Iceland 14 night Cruise. 11th-25th August 2019 Concierge Class, Wheelchair accessible balcony 1026.
So the cruise I had been waiting for since April 2018! My bucket list cruise to Iceland and to see the blue lagoon!! We boarded at Southampton, really easy, pre booked disabled parking with ABP and had our pass in the windscreen. Upon arrival we were directed straight to the disabled space and our suitcases…
Independence of the Sea 7324 wheelchair accessible balcony cabin May 2018 just after refits.
I did the sister ship Freedom of the sea back in 2008 for a week in the Caribbean which I loved and I really wanted my hubby to trial them out, so when I saw Indy was doing a 2 nighter from Southampton I was right in there booking it. Royal Caribbean are well known…
MSC Preziosa 9135 wheelchair accessible balcony Fantastica cabin review May 2019
We wanted to try out MSC Cruises as their prices seem to be very reasonable and their ships look stunning, we did 7 nights Northern Europe May 2019. First impressions on the ship itself was amazing, beautiful and very clean. Our cabin wasn’t as clean as others we had stayed in on other cruise lines…
Pacific Princess 8046 wheelchair accessible Mini Suite review Aug 2018
This was a hard holiday to take as I had promised my dad we would go, he was poorly in hospital and unfortunately he passed away 6 days before this cruise. We had got an upgrade from Princess to a mini suite which was our first upgrade ever!! If your not familiar with the Pacific…
Sapphire Princess C303 wheelchair accessible balcony cabin June 2018
We did 7 nights to the Norwegian Fjords on the Sapphire Princess in June 2018, unfortunately the weather wasn’t in our favour and it poured down for the most. Our room was typical of a princess ship, traditional roomy and the sapphire is the same class as the crown princess so we had the same…
Star Princess A304 wheelchair accessible balcony March 2018 review
We joined the Star Princess in LA for a 15 night Hawaiian 🌺 cruise for our wedding and honeymoon. The whole itinerary is wheelchair accessible and where not the people and staff will help where they can, The cabin was exactly like all the other Princess ships apart from the balcony’s stubs one was just…
P&O Aurora C150 wheelchair accessible balcony cabin review Dec 2017, Oct 2018, Dec 2018
We did 2 NYE 5 night cruise on Aurora in this cabin, Dec 2017 we went to Hamburg for NYE, Dec 2018 we went to Amsterdam and then in October 2018 we did 12 night Canary Island cruise which was extra special as we laid my dad to rest on this one. I could do…
P&O Ventura E304 wheelchair accessible partly obstructed outside cabin Nov 2017
Here we are again on a 2 night cruise to trial out the ship, the sister ship to the Azura and as it’s winter we booked an outside accessible cabin which was good as we were on a cruise to nowhere as the weather was so bad! This cabin is bigger than the outside on…
P&O Aurora cabin E179 wheelchair accessible outside review Oct 2017
We did a 2 night cruise to get a feel of this ship as she is one of the smaller in the P&O fleet but as it was winter we only booked an outside cabin rather than a balcony. As expected the room isn’t too large but it is a smaller ship, we had to…
Coral Princess 16th September 2017 Alaska 7 nights.
We stayed in the same cabin as our cruise we did in 2016 to the Caribbean, Costa Rica and Panama Canal, pictures are all on that blog. I wanted to briefly talk about how wheelchair accessible the 7 night inside passage Alaska was for me in my manual wheelchair. We flew to Vancouver and did…
P&O Arcadia Cabin E52 wheelchair accessible balcony review July 2017
P&O Arcadia so far is my favourite ship of the fleet, there is just something about her which touched me. We did a 2 nighter to trial this ship in July 2017 and we were not disappointed. Our room I personally loved, it was very quirky with a button at the bed to open and…
P&O Azura cabin C301 wheelchair accessible balcony review June 2017
We did a 2 night cruise on the Azura to get a feel of the ship. P&O Azura is the sister ship to the Ventura and in design is exactly the same except the Azura has a TV screen on the main outside pool. Large ships but very wheelchair accessible and friendly. Our room was…
Crown Princess cabin C304 Wheelchair accessible balcony 6th May 2017
We joined the crown princess for a 7 night cruise around France and Spain 6th May 2017.This ship is bigger than the Coral but seemed like coming back to see an old friend with all the quirks Princess have. Our room as usual was very spacious with enough room for a wheelchair and I have…
What This is About & About Me ⚓️
Ahoy there you lovely people & thank you for popping over to my site. Before I personally introduce myself so you all get some background about me and my husband, I wanted to explain what this is all about. Accessibility for disabled people whether it’s for wheelchairs, hoists, changing rooms etc is not very well…
P&O Britannia 2 night to Belgium cabin B719 Wheelchair Accessible balcony 24th March 2017
On the 24th March 2017 we thought we would trial out the new ship to the P&O fleet Britannia. Ourselves personally we like the smaller ships up to a maximum of around 2500 passengers but still we want to at least try! This was also a few days before my heart surgery where I ended…
Coral Princess Cabin C627 Wheelchair Accessible Balcony 8th Nov 2016
So, this Cruise was a very special cruise for one main reason, I was proposed to ❣️This was 10 nights Caribbean, Costa Rica and Panama Canal (Partial transit) cruise on the beautiful Coral Princess 8th November 2016. We stayed in cabin C627 wheelchair accessible balcony and on C deck the balconies are larger but are…
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