croosinjulie2

Though the information you posted is helpful the post your responded to is 5 1/2 years old.

It was posted on April 27th, 2012, 02:45 PM

Ah, but the problem is timeless! 😉

My husband uses this when we travel:

It keeps his opened bottle cool or at room temperature. If he's nearing the last 1/4 of an opened bottle, then he will take two in the case, since he will need to open the new bottle soon. His unopened bottles can be at room temperature for 28 days.

I have had family members for the past 25 years that were/are handicapped for a variety of reasons: stroke, Parkinson's, being elderly. So, I have a LOT of experience taking a handicapped person out and about. I just extend my normal habits on cruise ships.

I have self-assigned myself as "elevator monitor" on cruise ships, and I have physically blocked people by holding out my arm so a person in a wheelchair could get on first. I'm polite about it, but firm. Many times I will stand next to the handicapped person waiting for an elevator, so the occupants have to move to one side to get off, and leaving a clear path for the handicapped person to get on. It would be rude to block people from getting off on one side normally, but I have seen over the years how inconsiderate people are about letting someone get on the elevator in a scooter or wheelchair, and it upsets me to see someone wait and wait. So, just blocking the path is sometimes the only way to do it.

My friend will be traveling on the QM2 on a crossing. He has ALS and uses a bidet at home. He has a care giver joining him but I think would prefer to take care of certain hygiene issues himself if possible. Until I started helping plan this trip I was very ignorant to the hurdles disabled travelers face, very dissapointing to learn of the limited availability of accessible hotels and cabins etc.

Anyhow there is no bidet in the cabin which surprises me as I would have assumed someone designing such bathrooms would have considered there could be a need for one. I have been doing various searches and have come across some travel bidets but most appear that he would have to be able to squeeze it to work which might be difficult. I did see some battery opperated ones and was wondering if anyone had any experience with them? I am wondering if as there is a raised toliet seat if it could fit between the gap and he could just press the button taking care of that situation himself.

 

Please excuse the delicate nature of the question. Any tips or advice would be appreciated.

No apology needed: many of us have issues like this. My husband and I both have hemorrhoids, and have bidets attached to all our toilets at home, and use the toilet's water supply. We just bought a condo near our youngest son, and I ordered another one last week. (We get them on Amazon, they cost $30, and attach to any toilet in about 15 minutes. We will never live anywhere without one.)

While purchasing the last one, I researched travel bidets, and ordered two TOPINCN rechargeable ones:

We've used them for about 3 days, and I must say I'm impressed. On a scale of 1-10 our attached bidets are a 10: super fast and easy to use. These travel bidets are around a 6. They come with a USB charger cable, so if you have any USB wall charger, you just plug them in to recharge. There's no battery to install.

They have 2 water pressure settings, and I use the strongest, which is just right. I use warm water in the travel bidet's cannister, and it can be used to clean from the front or the back. My husband uses it from the back. The "wand" angle is adjustable, too.

It can be easily refilled for a second round, and washes / rinses up easily. I store the two parts detached so it can air dry in between uses. It's actually very sanitary to use. The soft button to operate the water flow is easy to push, too.

There's more finishing mop up with the travel bidet, but it's a perfect solution for us. With our attached bidets at home I'm done rinsing and finishing in less than a minute; the travel bidet is about 3 minutes if I have to refill it.

Do you know why it's legitimate to use Easy ETA & not the official Aussie website for the travel visa???

 

Thanks:rolleyes:

EasyETA is just a vendor that provides processing for visa applications and sends them on to the Aussie government web site. Perfectly legal, etc. I got my approval email this morning. This is minus my id information:

TYPE OF TRAVEL T TOURIST

ENTRY STATUS UD/601 ETA

AUTHORITY TO ENTER AUSTRALIA UNTIL 16NOV2014

PERIOD OF STAY 03 MTHS

MULTIPLE ENTRY

NO WORK - BUSINESS VISITOR ACTIVITY ONLY

ETA APPROVED

I just used Easy ETA for the second time. We used them several years ago, too. Took me about 3 minutes to do 2 visas, got my receipt and acknowledgement in about 10 seconds, used PayPal which has a buyer protection service. It's all good.

The Aussies really know how to make it easy with their electronic (and inexpensive) travel visa.

Good work! If it took 20 hours of effort, you've "paid" yourself $156.60 per hour. Which is over $325,000 annual salary...I know that's totally illogical but it sounds nice!

I like your calculations!

Some people would think I'm a little nuts, but it was a challenge to see if I could do it.

But the person you quoted mentioned picking up the plate. You then categorized someone as one dumb woman for saying something.:rolleyes:

The Cunard woman picking up the plate unnecessarily to test the temperature is the dumb one, NOT the poster on this thread!!

One dumb woman? How do you pick up a plate while only touching the back of it? I see no reason to be touching a plate unless you are going to be using it.:rolleyes:

I sanitize my hands, walk directly to the plate stack, if I'm going to get cold food I will touch the middle of the back of the top plate with a (sanitized) finger to test if it's too hot to put cold food on it. I never pick a plate up and put it back.

Hmmm, so my :cool: is not the only inappropriate? So I guess there´s some more I posted that didn´t get your approval:rolleyes:.

 

I can assure you I know enough about the effect of Noro on people that I will do everything to avoid getting it, this however results in should I ever get Noro, there´s nothing I needed to change in what I described above. Nothing I do will make me more prone to catch noro than anybody else. But of course to know this you´d need to have some knowledge about noro.

 

See you in the WJ:cool:

Ha, there's plenty in your posts that most on this thread are grossed out about. I think pcur was commenting on your using the "cool" smilie when what you were describing was not what the general public would consider cool: spreading germs with your "buffet habits".

There is a thread on the Cunard forum about how a woman was called rude because she spoke to another passenger who had picked up a plate at the buffet, put the palm of her hand on the plate, (she wanted to see how warm it was), and then put the plate back into the stack of clean plates.

 

What is with these people? Were they raised with no manners?

That's one dumb woman, because the plates are stacked UPSIDE DOWN, and you can touch the BACK of the plate to see how hot it is. I do this all the time at buffets (after I've sanitized my hands on the way in).

We are flying LAX-SYD next year. We are breaking the flight into segments (which I've done before on another trip), and flying into Honolulu. HNL is a good hub for flights to NZ and Australia.

You can go to HNL in economy, have the overnight sleep, and then purchase business or premium economy for comfortable seating for the longer flight into Auckland.

I've used Bose for about 8 years, had them replaced for free once, and then paid $150 to replace them again. So, I've had three sets for about $167 average each.

The reason I mention this is that $167 is not that much over your $100 budget, because Bose's replacement warranty is really good.

Now, my husband wouldn't pay for Bose, shopped around a lot, got another brand (might have been Sony) and used them on flights. They broke in his backpack when we were in FLL before a cruise, and I literally forced him to go to the Bose store in the local shopping mall and try them. He gave in and bought them.

He could not believe the difference in noise reduction when we flew home after that cruise.

Seriously, if you want long lasting quality, free / cheap replacement, and only hear what YOU want to hear on an airplane, then Bose is truly the way to go.

I even had a screaming toddler in the seat behind me on one flight and didn't hear a thing for 5 hours!!

I've been putting together this air fare for 10 months, and I'm not done yet.

We are booked on a b2b2b and flying LAX-HNL, then HNL-SYD (business/first class), then HNL-LAX; all one way flights. Yes, I could have done LAX-HNL roundtrip, but you will see why I didn't do that.

This all involves two different airline points rewards credit cards, and a whole lot of price checking.

The total fare if I just booked it as multi-city through a consolidator would have cost $4,704 for two people, including the business/first class leg to Sydney. We will end up paying around $1,575 for BOTH fares total, including luggage fees.

First, we got Sapphire Visa cards and racked up 125,000 points. You need to spend $3,000 on each card, and that was easy: pay for part of the cruise cost with the two cards, get double points for travel expenses, and end up with the points. We then used the cards for all our expenses. I found the HNL-SYD on Virgin Australia, so I jumped on it to get the last two side-by-side seats in the business/first class section. The flight is actually on Hawaiian Air.

Then, we got two American Airline credit cards, paid another $1,000 on each card toward the cruises, and after 3 weeks had our one-way flights LAX-HNL for $55 for 2 people, including baggage fees.

Now, we are waiting to pay the final payment for the cruises with the Sappire card, and have been using it all along for all our expenses. We will have enough points that the HNL-LAX leg will cost about $195 including baggage fees. That won't happen for another month.

This isn't for the faint of heart, but it's time well spent, I think, to save over $3,000.