Carnival Victory Review

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Carnival Victory - Canada/New England

Review for Canada & New England Cruise on Carnival Victory

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Sail Date: Aug 2007
Cabin: Ocean View

This review will primarily focus on issues that are of interest to travelers with physical disabilities. I traveled with my 86 year old father on the Carnival Victory's tour from New York to St. John's and Halifax in Nova Scotia. Unfortunately, the trip proved to be quite challenging for my father in ways we had not anticipated.

We booked the tour through a travel agency we have used before, and were told that Carnival now relies on e-docs and that therefore we should not expect to receive any paper documents. I went to Carnival's website, completed the online registration forms (which included giving Carnival information about airline reservations, etc), and printed our FunPasses, which were supposed to be our boarding passes. I did not book our air travel through Carnival for reasons too involved to explain here, and our travel arrangements required us to arrive in New York the day before the cruise began. Because we arrived early, Carnival declined to provide any transfer to the hotel or pier. They did offer to book a hotel room for us (the Crowne Plaza), but the rate we were quoted was considerably higher than I could get for the same room on the Internet, so I made my own reservation. The Crowne Plaza is expensive, but not exorbitant by NY standards, and was very nice.

When we arrived at the pier for embarkation, the problems began. I had no Carnival luggage tags, since I hadn't received any paper documents. So I had to get tags from an official and fill them out on the spot while Dad stood by in his walker. There were no wheelchairs anywhere in sight, so he had to hike from the place where we were dropped off all the way to the ship. That's a pretty substantial distance for a man in a walker. Carnival officials did wave us to the front of the line, so he was not forced to stand in line for embarkation procedures, but he was still worn out by the time he made it through security checkpoints, photos, check-in, and finally all the way to the ship.

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Ocean View

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