wdwstateofmind
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Cruises and the cast members on them are everything you expect from WDW but end up not receiving...you couldn't be making a better choice to take a DCL cruise if you're a WDW fan....
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To cruise or not?
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jencor
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I am one that would recommend the cruise. My wife and I just did our very first cruise and she is in a wheel chair. We use a manual chair as she would run everyone over in a ECV. I will say she can walk very short distances (though bad coordination). We took a regular room and I folded up the chair and stuck it in the room. She gets around in the room without too much difficulty. I know you might be looking on advice from the wheel chair point of view. I will say we were able to do a lot. We did not get off the boat at Nausau as most excursions exclude wheel chairs, but Castaway Cay was fantastic. We took the wheel chair off the boat and when off switched with one of their wheel chairs which works on the sand. My wife did snorkeling. She is so proud of that and makes sure she tells everyone about that. ( I must admit I was so proud of her also). We pushed the chair right up into the water and picked her up right on the water. She did most of the swimming with her arms and not feet, but she got out there and had a lot of fun. We went to the theatre every night, saw sunrise, and so many activities we were able to see and do. Sailaway party, movies and just what ever. Some things I will say I was a bit surprised on. Their doors to the outside of the ship upstairs are not wheel chair friendly and with the two of us I sometimes needed to wait for someone or struggle to get out of the double doors. The halls to the rooms were difficult to do as they were big enough for the chair, but there was always a cleaning cart out there and we did not squeeze through. Over all, experience was great and we will do it again. We were hesitant at first, but were on the ship with other family members and it all worked out. I hope this helps and just FYI, my wife just asked me what I was doing and she responded she had a great time.
StageFrenzy
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jencor
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We were on 4 day Dream with double stop at Castaway. Loved the double stop at Castaway and would look for that again when we decide to go again.
StageFrenzy
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I would think aft would be your friend with cabanas being the exit to the pool deck and close to the elevators.
jencor
Active Member
I did not say did not enjoy the aft, just getting to it there are double doors that can be difficult with a chair. No automatic handicap doors. You would think the boat would have it, but did not. Was harder one floor up cause the doors were tougher to open and there was a floor bump that was tough to push over. Did not let it stop us, just inconvenient.
StageFrenzy
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Yeah I guess those doors can be hard to manage in a chair.