Emerald Princess Review

Carried Around the Baltic

Review for the Baltic Sea Cruise on Emerald Princess
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billfishmc
First Time Cruiser • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Sep 2009

As a disabled person this was the most challenging cruise that I have ever been on, both on the ship and on the shore excursions. To get around the ship I use a small (fold up) electric scooter and on shore excursions I use a wheelchair. Our next-door neighbors and good friends, Dan and Ellen were on the cruise with us, which was great for my wife (she did not have to push me around all the time).

On The Ship Positives for Mobility The best part of the cruise was our accessible outside stateroom (with blocked view). It had plenty of room for me to move around on my scooter and the bathroom was equally roomy and well laid out (good job Princess). Also the public accessible restrooms were roomy and well laid out. The doorways to the outdoors areas were wide and usually automatic with low thresholds.

Negatives for Mobility The hallways in the stateroom areas were wide enough for a scooter or wheelchair but were usually blocked by numerous carts used by the room attendants. This meant that I had to go up or down to one of the public decks to move fore and aft on the ship. But the ship had a "chopped up" layout. To get down to the Botticelli dining room I could only use the aft elevators

Cabin Review

Cabin E304 on the Emerald Princess had the best design for an accessible cabin that I have found on any cruise ship. Roomy with a very good bathroom layout. Clean, neat and quiet with a thermostat which controlled the cabin temperature very well.

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