[Travelandtourism] RoyalCaribbeanCruiseLinesnolongerprovidedBraille on their ships

Wed Jun 1 14:43:32 UTC 2011

I am currently using for other cruises a supplier for travel agents called 

http://www.specialneedsatsea.com/<http://www.specialneedsatsea.com/>

Since I am part of the SATH.org Society for Accessible Transportation and Hospitality, they will have things brailed for my clients that don't offer braille already.

Again, I am looking within the travel community to find out what is up with Royal Caribbean.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Peter Donahue<mailto:pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com> 
  To: NFB Travel and Tourism Division List<mailto:travelandtourism at nfbnet.org> 
  Cc: Mary Donahue<mailto:braille at satx.rr.com> 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 10:37 AM
  Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] RoyalCaribbeanCruiseLinesnolongerprovidedBraille on their ships

  Hello Cheryl and everyone,

      Perhaps Royal Caribbean should consider having their material produced 
  in Braille through one of the Braille producers. I'm sure that the Education 
  Service Center Region Twenty would love to have such a contract.
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  From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com<mailto:cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>>
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  Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 4:49 AM
  Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Royal 
  CaribbeanCruiseLinesnolongerprovidedBraille on their ships

  I am also working very closely for the last 2 years with Norwegian Cruise 
  Lines, and working with both nagdu and will be contacting my guide dog 
  school as well, they are wanting to do a tour of the ship, luncheon and q 
  and a with access desk in reference to guide dogs. I have sailed on NCL in 
  the past, no they don't have braille, but I love there customer service and 
  willingness to help, plus I have an outside supplier that can do the braille 
  on the ship for them.

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    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Barry Campbell<mailto:jazzlion1 at comcast.net<mailto:jazzlion1 at comcast.net>>
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    Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 4:42 AM
    Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Royal Caribbean 
  CruiseLinesnolongerprovidedBraille on their ships

    Hello:
      If this is true it is very sad.  My wife and I were told that Braille
    printers were on each ship of the fleet.  Much of the time they are not 
  used
    but as for being broken my guess is that the persons who do the printing
    have not read the instructions or have not loaded the proper drivers into
    the computer.  We just came back from a cruise in mid February and we had
    Braille compass (the ships newspaper).  I do not like the idea of having
    someone read the compass to you very much but may have to live with it.
    When my wife and I travel with another group on Carnival ships the travel
    agent gets a crew member, usually one of the cruise director staff, to
    record the event schedule each day and it is replayed on a TV channel. 
  This
    would be a great solution and even others who are not blind may appreciate
    it also.

    We may have to make a call to RCCL to investigate.  We are Emerald level 
  on
    the Crown and anchor society and could switch easily to Carnival/Princess 
  if
    a sufficient answer is not provided.

    Barry Campbell
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    Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 8:51 PM
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    Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Royal Caribbean Cruise
    LinesnolongerprovidedBraille on their ships

    You say the Braille printers have been broken every time you try to get an
    agenda Brailed.  Who has been Brailing the material for them?

    Reese

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    well I am still investigating the whole thing.  I don't like the answers I
    am getting, and a few times that I had sent clients that needed Braille 
  the
    printers were broken.

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