brillohead

As stated above, a transport chair has four small wheels, while a wheelchair has two small wheels on the front and two big wheels with handrails for self-propelling the chair. Transport chairs are lighter and fold up smaller, but require a person to push them. Wheelchairs are heavier and take up a bit more space when folded, but allow someone to move independently. Both should be allowed onto a bus/van with no problem, although you may be required to lift it onto the bus/van without assistance from the driver.

In the future, ask Guest Services for an In Transit Pass. You'll still have to go through security, but you should be whisked through all the lines with the In Transit Pass.

As long as you get onto the island within the first couple of hours, you should have your pick of chairs. Closer to lunchtime, and you'll have to walk around a bit more to find a chair, but they will still be available -- just maybe not in your first choice location.

If he'll need assistance to get to/from the bus and ship, then I recommend purchasing your own "transport chair" or standard wheelchair, and using that for excursions. You can also use it to get on/off the ship on embarkation/debarkation days, and in the airport if you're flying to the homeport. A transport chair will fold up and can be taken on the excursion bus/van and also used at each stop, as needed. Unless you book a chair-accessible excursion, they're not going to be able to take the scooter on the excursion, unless you have your own scooter that is specifically able to be easily folded up and carried.

Labadee also has cabanas and an Aqua Park, so not sure what you're trying to correct them about.

Combinations of same ship and different ship, so there are S2Ss mixed in amongst the B2Bs. My travel agent just rolls his eyes when he sees another email from me.... I have a bit of a sickness when it comes to cruises!

Was this out of Puerto Rico, or Europe? Because I never seem to hear of this for cruises from CONUS.

When I have the same room, I tell my stateroom attendant that I don't need my room serviced on Turn Around Day morning. I just leave my Do Not Disturb magnet on the door. No need to be out of the room until it's time to go to the official meeting.

Personally, I have groupings of 5-8 cruises. That's a bit of unpacking and repacking and unpacking and repacking. Like I've said before, they work for some people and don't for others. To each their own.

I would avoid being over Cafe Promenade -- the drunks tend to hang out there when the nightclub shuts down, and the conversation can get loud. Other than that, Promenade View rooms are a budget-friendly alternative.

They do have names, but they're irrelevant.

Ah, I misunderstood that part. Thanks for the clarification.

Also usually the "promenade" deck (with the outside walkway) on the port side.

I don't think you understand. Voyager, Freedom, and Oasis class all have multi-level dining rooms. They all have the same menu, but they have different names and are located on different decks.

Yes, I've even turned one completely in a circle. If the room has a coffee table, just ask to have it moved out of the room if you need more space.

Gotcha, I see it now. And I agree -- Voyager class is the smallest I like, too.

Just didn't want someone to think that the one you showed was the ONLY beach there. And I agree, there are TONS of free areas at Coco Cay -- I never spend a dime there other than the dollar cash I tip with each drink.

Just want to point out that this is only one of SEVERAL beach areas. This is Harbor Beach, but there are three beaches for Chill Island, another for Breezy Bay, and another for South Beach. All of those are free.

Unless you're on an old/small ship, you CAN fit a scooter into a regular balcony room that has the bed by the balcony.

I think you've gotten your classes mixed up. Voyager class DOES have the Royal Promenade -- it was the first class that did.

They've actually changed to handing them out on the pier / at the tram station now. I think a lot of people were just throwing them away, because if you've been there before (or ever looked at one of these many Coco Cay threads), you just don't need it. So they've gone away from delivering them to every room and just handing them out to people who want/need them.

Eagle Beach is only maybe ten minutes tops from the cruise port. There's a good parking lot area there. Here are a couple pics from my spot on the beach last month, view right, middle, and left:

Not everyone only packs/unpacks once when cruising, though. I've started bundling cruises together to reduce my airfare costs, so I do a lot of S2S and B2B cruises. And while it may only take ten minutes to unpack "normally", you need to also consider the time to repack (and then unpack and then repack and then unpack, etc.). Packing cubes keep my clean and dirty clothes separated. Packing cubes keep my items all together so each drawer/shelf is just a single trip from closet/vanity to bed (where the suitcase is opened up). That single trip can be even less than a single trip, if I take all the cubes at once. Look, I get it -- packing cubes don't work for everyone's situation, just like not everyone gets the drinking package, the internet package, the dining package, etc. Heck, I avoided them forever because everyone was talking about "space saving" and it didn't make sense for me from a space-saving perspective (still doesn't, unless you're using compression-style cubes). But the organizational aspect is a game-changer for me.

Exactly! And you can still "smoosh" the cubes together to fill in the empty spaces, too. They're not solid.

Set up Wi-Fi Calling now, at home. (You have to be connected to your cellular network to do this.) Then when you're on board next time, go into Airplane Mode and turn Wi-Fi on and connect as normal. Then you can text/call each other just like if you're on your regular cellular network. You can also just test this at home -- turn on Airplane and turn on Wi-Fi and you can make/receive calls and texts normally. I'm an Android user who lives in a basement, and I get almost no reception from my cellular provider in the basement; in my previous home, I had horrible reception even on the main floor of the house -- our neighborhood was in a tiny pocket of no reception. I've been using Wi-Fi Calling at home for several years as a result, and it works great, both at home and on a ship. I never turn off the Wi-Fi Calling function -- any time my cell signal is worse than my Wi-Fi connection, the phone just automatically routes any calls through the Wi-Fi, and vice versa.