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But can vary substantially on battery condition and weight!

About 900 feet up the Borgo di Greci road.

As I remember, two of the requirements is a white/light background and an unfiltered photo. I don’t think their standard backdrops include white, though you could find a white wall on the exterior of the ship, especially on Deck 11 on a Pinnacle or somewhere similar.

Sometimes in includes crew gratuity, sometimes it does not, depending on what sale is in effect. I wish they’d include it as a “plus” to differentiate when it was included, (eg HIA+).

The drink packages don’t include specialty restaurant dinners/lunches (though you can use the beverage packages for drinks/drinks with dinner IN the specialty restaurants.) Lobster is available at every restaurant, in one form or another. It is ob the “regular” menu at Rudi’s. Yes, wi-fi is “extra,” (eg, not included in your base fare). HAL’s Have it All package includes the signature drink plan, wifi, and a couple of specialty dinners, depending on cruise length.

Your insurer is the best entity to tell you what information they require to substantiate a claim. My GUESS is that they would want medical information, including diagnosis and treatment/procedures provided and a statement from the physician regarding thir medical necessity. I am sure they would want billing information. I expect the insurance company would also want a copy of an order requiring quarantine. They would also want descriptions of any events ,including reveipts/pricing) you could not participate in due to quarantine and the cancellation policy for each of those events. If you incurred additional expenses due to travel restrictions resulting from infection/quarantine and they are coveted by your policy/you got any necessary preapproval), I expect they would want all relevant receipts.

Sydney is a tender port,I believe. Halifax depends on the number of ships. At Portland, there are two separate places where cruise ships dock.

You may want to clarify whether the validity expiration date is the date you enter the US or the date you return (finally) to Canada. Here is the CPB list countries that the US permits travelers from with less than 6 months’ validity remaining (see the downloadable file on the page). https://www.cbp.gov/document/bulletins/six-month-passport-validity-update

See replies in the other thread. While you may not get great detail, you can get highlights from both in a single day, depending upon what else is on your agenda.

You might want to/need to consider how the use of tenders may affect your cruise. Depending upon the specific ship and weather conditions, the transfer between the cruise ship and tenders can be a little challenging. Sometimes scooters and/or wheelchairs are not permitted aboard tenders (especially if the ship is using her own vessels).

What specific phone/version of Android? The app does not get on well with older phones/versions of Android. It requires Android 10 or later: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hollandamerica.navigator.moapp&hl=en&gl=US. A new version of the app was released yesterday (Monday). For reinstalling, did you delete the original installation first?

It’s Spring Break. It’s not unusual for hotels to be sold out.

Many excursions will be challenging for you. There is no place to put a scooter on a 12 or 15 passenger van or many minibuses., which are frequently used. Excursions that use Greyhound-style buses may be able to stow your scooter ib the luggage compartment, however you would likely need to ascend and descend the steps into/out of the bus. One of the (free) shuttles at Sitka can accommodate wheeled devices. The train can as well, in the accessible car, with a reservation.,

The Academiia is probably more wheelchair friendly in itself, but largely because it is smaller. Getting to the Ufizzi was much eaiser. We took the ship’s bus to Florence and, as a group, walked about 1/2 mile into the city center. The Ufizzi was right there. We guessed (right) on a very accessible city minibus, on a one-way street, and had enough Italian in us to validate with the driver that the bus did go to David and he’d tell us when to get off. We rolled back to City Center after our visit. And yes, we visited both. I had set up an executive tour at the Ufizzi so had a guide who helped us through (in English). We’d done our homework and had lined up tickets for both locations in advance- no waiting on any lines We even had rime for a quick lunch in the Ufizzi’s upstairs cafe.

For pool/spa use, no. For laundry, highly irregularly. My guess is that they MAY offer a discount based on capacity. If they are still having staffing issues, they may very well be assigning staff to other duties.

You may want to set up an account with Italiarail and then email Blu with your account name and a request to reserve wheelchair seating for the specific train (date/route/time) you want. They can then set aside the seat and assign it to your italiarail account. You can then log into italiarail and purchase the seat. You can also purchase the seat on italiarail’s site and email the confirmation number to Blu, which can then reserve a wheelchair space, as available.

You will have access to the ship’s Internet throughout your journey. Ship’s basic/premium Internet dies not include phone services. You should expect intermittent coverage from land towers when/if your ship is at dock.

Fort Lauderdale airport is basically adjacent to Port Everglades. Miami airport is about 40 minutes away, depending upon traffic. Fort Lauderdale customs and immigration is usually less of a line. Flight duration on a nonstop should be nearly the same Unless Miami was $125 per person cheaper and/or flights were much more convenient fir you, I would pick Fort Lauderdale.

I glanced at several excursions in Sitka on Viator. I noticed one that specified a seat width of 17 inches, advising potential customers to purchase multiple seats if additional space was wanted. I may not have seen all wheel-based tours, but there was decidedly most that said. explicitly, no wheelchair accommodation. The ADA is not front and center in tour operators’ minds.

It will be there when it gets there. There are too many variables to try to account for.

You didn’t say what kind of excursion it is or whether you’d asked at the time you made the reservation about bringing your daughter’s service animal on the excursion. It’s very believable that, say, they are using 15 passenger vans for transportation. If the van has a full load of passengers (every seat occupied), there really isn’t excess space. if you’d asked at the time of reservation and the provider did not set space aside, that’s a different matter. I’ve often found it easier to work directly with the operator of the excursion- and purchase tickets directly from them- rather than involving a third party. And yes, with the ADA in place it shouldn’t make a difference. But is seems to. I don’g have the energy to pursue legal action every time the provider doesn’t follow the law.

Vatican tickets and tours can be booked directly through the Vatican Museums’ sire, https://m.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani-mobile/en.html, as well as indirectly from various outlets. I don’t know their current practice regarding scooter transfers. At the time I was there I was mostly using a rollator (about 8 years ago). A couple of friends were at one of the breakfasts a few weeks ago, bug they don’t use equipment. At least some of the hoo-on-hop buses in Rome and Barcelona have ramps.

Florence is also a city that is much easier to get around when not in a motor vehicle, though the streets can be a but rough on scooter, wheelchair, or rollator wheels. It can be challenging to get point to point and have parking. A golf cart tour of Rome is a possibility to consider. Authorized drivers can get you much closer to many attractions than a regular car can, especially for things like the Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps. Booking some tours well in advance can be helpful. One of out smarter moves was breakfast in the Vatican, which included early access to the Vatican Museum. Our group of 30 people had 25 minutes or so in the Sistine Chapel to ourselves. Many museums offer discounted admission not to the disabled individual but to their aide, with proof of disabling condition. We used my disabled parking placard since the US doesn’t produce any identification card with the international symbol for disability. We had a letter if needed, but it was in English and wanted to be respectful of the countries we visited and not have things lost in translation. Upon seeing me, it is really obvious that I have mobility issues. I don’t think we ever actually showed documentation, but always had it available.

I had quite the discussion about this. My issue was the only “excursions” available on a cruise last December to a wheelchair user (me) were accessible villas at Margaritaville at Turks and Caicos, the “train” at T&C, and a villa on Half Moon Cay (which was much more than the credit. I’ve been on the train tour 4 times. No dice.

Ship’s or other port-authorized providers are on the ship-side of security. Private taxis are outside the gates. Distance can vary depending on what berth the ship is in. For one berth, it is 125 feet from the gangway to in-securty buses and 250 feet to the gates. Add 400 feet to each if in one of the other two (non-central) berths. Smaller ships almost always are in one of the “other” (non-central) berths if multiple ships are in port.