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You need to keep it in your cabin at all times. Leaving it in a passageway or a lobby creates a fire and safety hazard.

One adapts. A much greater amount of planning is often required.

We had 11147 eons ago and found it yo be convenient and quiet. As I recall (it’s been years), there was plenty of space (I was 170 lbs, my spouse was 135 lbs).

Fort Lauderdale can be a busy airport if there are slot of ships in port. Often, ships’ passengers are not all that familiar with TSA procedures. Add on to that, TSAPre and Clear are not the advantage they once were.

There will be good availability of taxis and ride share vehicles at the port.

Can you make a 9:30 flight? Yes. Will you? Maybe. Have a good plan if there are bumps.

Walking into the port is not usually an issue at the Eisenhower Avenue entrance, from a security perspective.

The entrance is not exactly pedestrian friendly. There is ALOT of traffic, and drivers are not especially attentive.

Be very aware it can be a LONG walk from the port entrance to your ship, and Florida heat and humidity can come into play.

Safe travels!

Your TA should have booked your new hotel prior to releasing your Panpacific reservation. Unfortunately, from what you’ve said, they didn’t.

I would not expect them to find a room. Alaska cruises are sailing full or more than full, and hotel rooms in Vancouver on nights before cruises and near the terminal can be challenging to come by. And if it’s a Fire in the Sky night, almost impossible citywide.

I would grab something to have and then see if the situation can be improved. 

Best of luck!

Your service animal should remain with you at all times. 

Ship’s personnel can and may enter your stateroom for a variety of reasons, including verifying ship’s equipment and safety. Your dog could, of course, bark. There are lots of different noises aboard a ship, many of which may be unfamiliar to a service animal.

If you left your service animal in the cabin unattended while you were in port, you might very well come back to the pier and find your suitcases and dog on the dock, having been unceremoniously disembarked at the captain’s orders.

Of note, regardless of whether you go ashore or remain on the ship with the animal, you will need to comply with each country’s requirements for registering your animal.

It’s a one hour drive each way.

Assume ashore @ 1:30,

Out of rental car pickup @ 2:00

Arrive Disney Springs 3:00

Depart DS 5:45

Arrive Cape Canaveral 6:45

Shuttle to ship: 7:10

Doable, but not a bunch of wiggle room

The offerings have changed quite a bit. At a quick glance, I did not see the packages we used. There is an English option. I can read quite a bit of Italian.

Most facilities, at least years ago, would not pre-register/sell tickets for the disabled. The big issue is determining how the queue is managed. On a busy day (like the day we were at the Vatican), we did not want to risk waiting in the standby queue to buy tickets, plus we wanted early access to the Sistine Chapel, plus we could get a much earlier start on the day, making more time for touring. At the time we went, no discounted pricing was provided for individuals with disabilities for special event tours, only for general admission activities, and only when purchased in person.

At the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, we knew the standby line was going to be long, but we also knew to go to straight to a special check in desk that didn't require waiting in the standby queue and would sell immediate entry tickets to the disabled. I think regular tickets at the time were 10 Euro, with the companion free. The Ufizzi was similar, but a bit more difficult to find the right entrance. Again, we could bypass the ticketing entrance queue.

You'll be an in transit passenger. You will need to assemble with all other in transit passengers. likely in the theater and escorted off the ship for a quick check with immigration and to validate all passengers have been accounted for. Bring your ship ID and travel documents.  The check can take as few as 10 minutes.

Hope that your fellow passengers comply- it's all or nothing, and they won't proceed until everyone shows up.

Once done, you can return immediately to the ship or continue to go ashore. There is a Walgreen's at the port entrance and a Total Wine and Publix supermarket several blocks away. It is walkable if needed, but be very careful about cars. Many crewman will be walking the same path.

I am not sure about how clean the bathroom floors may actually be. I'm not suggesting they are not cleaned between passengers, but am unsure what products are being used at this point.

As a general perspective, if you have need of the room's modifications due to a disability, that should not be a barrier to reserving/occupying the space.

There are an extremely limited number of accessible cabins. Many of us cannot cruise without having an accessible cabin- it's all or nothing. I use a custom power wheelchair and cannot walk/stand/step without assistance. A shower- or any portal- with a step- is an insurmountable barrier.

My personal take is to try to make the smallest footprint possible and take only what is needed, leaving opportunities for others. You need to strike a balance that you can live with.

Avis snd Enterprise have separate, stand-alone locations focused on Port Everglades.

The Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) is adjacent to Port Everglades. It's rental car center, with all the usual and some other companies is about a 10 minute (or less, depending on terminal number) ride/drive to/from the cruise ships.

Free shuttles between Port Everglades and the airport are NOT provided.

Safe travels!

No. Ships' pools are generally too small to support ramped access. Margaritaville @ Grand Turk DOES have a lovely ramped pool entrance, excepting that it foes not have any handrails nor s water wheelchair or waterproof walker. 

Sharing where you are sailing would be helpful in members identifying potential alternatives for you.

5 hours ago, Crew News said:

Tunnel traffic exits Whittier for 15 minutes beginning at the top of the hour.  Entering Whittier traffic begins at the bottom of the hour for 15 minutes.  If you miss a tunnel window, your plans will be interrupted or delayed.

Thank you for being more eloquent than I was! 🙂

There is also the issue of the tunnrl and what direction traffic is flowing at the time.

It's very plausible.

If a lot is used only for one ship then there are a limited number of hours that need to be staffed for that lot, depending on ships' schedules. In your specific case from what you posted, you expect your ship to be at Terminal 19 on return. That means that the ship that was at 19 isn't there at your return. So. if the port staff limited initial access to the lot to cars associated with that ship, they could lock the lot gates for the duration of the cruise, which means no staffing costs and increased security via no access to the lot.

Some of the decision-making is also based on the total number of cars expected in the port. They could reopen the gates if spaces were available but other lots/garages were full.

Port Everglades' terminals can be and are occasionally reassigned at the last minute. 

If you mean the Port Everglades entry kiosk, there is usually not an extensive delay. Additionally, all vehicles are subject to review, I believe.

I don't think I've ever waited more than 5 minutes in probably 150 entrances.

Same cabin? Yes. Different cabin? No.

You are welcome. however, to join them.

After about 9:30 pm, any stateroom underneath Canaletto should be as quiet as a mouse. It is also pretty rare for people to sit in those spaces during breakfast or lunch hours in the Lido.

Verandahs do not extend beyond the edge of the ship. If you can't hang out over the edge, you can't look down and in. The windows in Canaletto don't open.

Flying out of West Palm Beach (PBI) is quite doable. it is about a 55 minute drive between the two. Yes. both TriRail and Brightline are rail options, but unless you have a friend giving you a ride to or from one of the stations you are going to need to build in some extra wait time. You would have 2 changes in transportation modality- car to train yo car. A taxi or rideshare means no transfers between transportation modes.

I used to live around the corner from the port and worked next to the airport. I did take the train because I was going every day and it was M-F rush hour.

It is very unlikely the cruise line will offer bus service. There is not usually a major demand.

PBI is a small airport. with limited food choices and other amenities. It also means security is manageable.

I would be reluctant at this time to boon a Sunday flight after January 20, 2025. PBI would be the airport Mr. Trump uses most frequently when flying to/from Mar a Lago. If he were to win the election, presidential security protocols would return to the airport. The protocols could/would cause unexpected and unscheduled delays for commercial aircraft. This is NOT intended as political commentary. It is simply a statement regarding the impact of security protocols on a particular airport. A parallel example is the impact of presidential protocols on whatever airport Mr. Biden typically uses. If he wins, they will continue to impact the airport after Inauguration Day. If he doesn't, the airport may no longer be impacted.

HAL has done this several times to us when we've selected an accessible cabin in an obstructed view cabin and then been moved to an unobstructed view accessible balcony cabin. Except we'd purposely selected the obstructed view because it had a larger protected balcony. Each time, they've told us they had resold our original cabin making a move back impossible.

Good luck!

You may very well have a "square peg, round hole" problem. At a minimum, you will want to clarify the true width of the scooter, not only at the base but also the dimensions of the seat with and without arms in place.

Princess does not provide non-cabin storage of your scooter. It needs to go into your cabin and cannot be left in the passageway.

It will be easier for you if your cabin is configured with the bed nearer the window/exterior door. Often, there is little space between the foot of the bed and storage. Getting through there on a scooter can be challenging.

Safe travels!

I can ask the powers that be about a camera. I know some of the folks on the construction team.

Pinnacle Grill decidedly has charges for multiple entrees and appetizers.

Canaletto behaves a little differently since many of the plates are intended for sharing (or at least can be ordered as sharable. There is at least one entree on each menu (lobster) that incurs an additional surcharge.

The days of surf and turf that included lobster at the base price seem over.