[Travelandtourism] RoyalCaribbeanCruiseLinesnolongerprovidedBraille on their ships

Thu Jun 2 21:14:43 UTC 2011

I have been on many cruises, they only change the specials, which if requested you can have read to you. But most of the time it is the same stuff, they are also not brailed at the buffets.

Only in the main dining rooms and restaurants, again they only change the specials, I have been on some repeat sailings and they don't change that much.

Again, I haven't received anything yet, I posted what I sent to RCCI, and still waiting for a response.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barry Campbell<mailto:jazzlion1 at comcast.net> 
  To: 'NFB Travel and Tourism Division List'<mailto:travelandtourism at nfbnet.org> 
  Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 4:58 PM
  Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism]RoyalCaribbeanCruiseLinesnolongerprovidedBraille on their ships

  Hello:
    Most cruiseships work off of a menu depending on the length of the cruise.
  For example for a 5 night cruise they serve the same items on each 5 night
  cruise, or a 8 night night cruise theyserve the same menu for the 8 night
  cruise.  /This is done to make the food ordering process easier when
  ordering food supplies for the ship.  My guess is that from time to time
  these menus are updated but not  each month perhaps each year.

  I never have a problem having the server/waiter reading the menu when we are
  on the RCCL ships as we have only had braille menues on the Independence of
  the seas.  However I would like some kind of option for the ships newspaper,
  Compass, on the rccl ship.  I would not have a problem if it was recorded
  and put on a loop on a tv channel or recorded on a voice mail system and the
  number given to the blind/low vision person to call whenever they want to
  review what is happening for that day.  I really don't like the option of
  having a person assigned to you as they are crewmembers and they have a
  personal life also.

  -----Original Message-----
  From: travelandtourism-bounces at nfbnet.org<mailto:travelandtourism-bounces at nfbnet.org>
  [mailto:travelandtourism-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peachtree Travel
  Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 7:56 AM
  To: NFB Travel and Tourism Division List
  Subject: Re:
  [Travelandtourism]RoyalCaribbeanCruiseLinesnolongerprovidedBraille on their
  ships

  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.

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