[Travelandtourism] Eliminating braille to your clients.

Mon Jun 6 17:07:57 UTC 2011

Wendy, I am sorry you went through this.

I hope you were working with a travel agent that understood your needs, and directly with the Access Department prior to cruising, again the problem is that many blind people do not cruise and that is why myself, Maurice, and I hope others on this list are travel agents, we are trying to get blind people in general to travel and not just to conventions.

I am getting the ball rolling I hope with the talks with Norwegian, they are wonderful, and I hope others who have contacted them in the past, that when you need management with them, they are on twitter, facebook, phone, e-mail and really people and not automated systems or not even giving the proper information to the travel agent.

We really need to work together with this division to getting what is needed for the cruise lines, airfares, etc to make sure they understand stand our needs and implement them, and not just offering when it doesn't work they eliminate it.

Let walk the walk and not talk the talk. I am only one person, who is working on behalf of my clients.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wendy David<mailto:wendydav at mindspring.com> 
  To: NFB Travel and Tourism Division List<mailto:travelandtourism at nfbnet.org> 
  Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 12:43 PM
  Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Eliminating braille to your clients.

  Cheryl, I had to provide my own Braille for menus, activity schedules, and 
  other docs for Princess.  They only had the in-room emergency information 
  and room service menu in Braille.  My last Princess cruise I had requested 
  Braille Bingo cards and they couldn't find them until the last day.  So, 
  what they say isn't always what you get. In my 3 Princess cruises, I have 
  had to provide a thumb drive but the formatting of the electronic docs could 
  not be read by my Braille Sense.  It was pretty frustrating.

  Wendy David

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com<mailto:cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>>
  To: "NFB Travel and Tourism Division List" <travelandtourism at nfbnet.org<mailto:travelandtourism at nfbnet.org>>
  Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 9:29 AM
  Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Eliminating braille to your clients.

  > Maurice:
  >
  > Princess does offer it, and it was re iterated on the recent posting that 
  > I did about guide dogs on Princess Cruise Lines, in the video on 
  > Princess.com they do have braille upon request as well.
  >
  >
  > Leading the Way in Independent Travel!
  >
  > Cheryl Echevarria
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  > Affiliated as an Independent Contractor with Montrose Travel 
  > CST-1018299-10
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  > Inc.
  >  ----- Original Message ----- 
  >  From: Peachtree Travel<mailto:info at peachtreetravel.net<mailto:info at peachtreetravel.net>>
  >  To: NFB Travel and Tourism Division 
  > List<mailto:travelandtourism at nfbnet.org<mailto:travelandtourism at nfbnet.org>>
  >  Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 12:05 PM
  >  Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Eliminating braille to your clients.
  >
  >
  >  Hi Wendy:
  >
  >  I'll have to research which cruise lines still offer the Braille option 
  > for
  >  its customers.  I no Carnival/Princess  no longer provides Braille 
  > however,
  >  there information channel is a great substitute.
  >
  >  RCL is phasing out Braille and not sure about NCL.
  >
  >  Reese
  >
  >  ----- Original Message ----- I would like Braille to remain an option for
  >  those who request it
  >  specifically.  It is a deciding factor for me whether or not to choose a
  >  specific cruise line/ship.
  >  Thanks,
  >  Wendy David
  >
  >
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