[Travelandtourism] RoyalCaribbeanCruiseLinesnolongerprovidedBraille on their ships

[Peachtree Travel]

Vicki:

I think Carnival has the best way of addressing this issue so far.  Although 
the Braille option would be nice, I can see why its not the best method on a 
cruise.

  Its like going to your favorite restaurant where the special of the day is 
constantly changing.  Your Braille menu will always be out of date either 
with the prices or different items.

Cruise ships are much like that.  The menu of food could be one way on a 
cruise and another way on the next cruise.  Making your Braille menu/program 
out of date real fast.  So the way Carnival does there programming works 
nicely.  They record it a day ahead of time and within 24 hours its on the 
TV for you to view at your leisure.

Reese

----- Original Message ----- 

     I have taken lots of cruises and will chime in here.  I am a Braille
user and have used it for all my life but also read many talking books as
well.  I have been on many Royal Caribbean cruises and had great times but
only had a Braille schedule one time.  The Braille printers were either not
working or people were not trained in how to print Braille appropriately.

     Having said these things, I did not have any problem to get schedules
read and actually recommended to my travel agent that they put the schedule
daily on the TV.  I just came back from a carnival cruise where the schedule
ran in a loop each day all day on a TV channel and it was great.  You could
turn on the TV at 7:30 in the morning and hear what was going on and even
record it yourself on any recording device that you had.