[Travelandtourism] Orlando and Cruises

Fri Nov 18 20:56:23 UTC 2011

It is actually a 45 minute to an hour away, it is Port Canaveral which from there you can do the theme parks in Orlando, or go to Cocoa Beach, or Orlando sightseeing.

In fact the Rosen Shingle is a recommended hotel when going on the Disney Cruise Lines either the night before cruising or the day after cruising.

Cruise lines have contracts with local hotels the service there clients.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Peter Donahue<mailto:pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com> 
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  Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 3:43 PM
  Subject: [Travelandtourism] Orlando and Cruises

  Good afternoon everyone,

      Truthfully I didn't know that Orlando was on the Florida coast so was 
  surprised to learn that some cruises originate from there or Have Orlando as 
  a port of call. And we were just there last July. I knew that Cocoa Beach 
  was near-by but didn't realize that Orlando too was on the coast.

  Peter Donahue

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  From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com<mailto:cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>>
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  Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 1:47 PM
  Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Traveling with a guide dog out ofthecountry 
  and on a cruise ship

  Orlando is in FL.

  It seems pick on me day.

  In reference to the excursions I was mentioning that our stop was in 
  Orlando, Great Strirrup Cay and Nassau, and that we didn't have any issues 
  in Orlando.

  Cindy we all make mistakes.

  I hope you have a great holiday.

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    From: Cindy Handel<mailto:cindy425 at verizon.net<mailto:cindy425 at verizon.net>>
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    Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 2:38 PM
    Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Traveling with a guide dog out of 
  thecountry and on a cruise ship

    Cheryl,

    Where is Orlando?  You said:

    "Orlando is a US State so there is no worry in that of where you want to 
  go
    on an excursion, "

    I'm not aware of this U.S. state.

    Cindy
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    Subject: [Travelandtourism] Traveling with a guide dog out of the country
    and on a cruise ship

    Good morning all:

    Now that I have some time, I will be posting my reviews and experience of 
  my
    recent cruise and excursions.

    This particular post is in reference to cruising with a guide dog from the
    prep work, to the onboard experience, this is also in reference to leaving
    the main land of the US.

    Before I start, yesterday, as I had posted, someone asked me about 
  traveling
    with their guide dog to Puerto Rico.  Well, since I have yet to take Maxx 
  to
    PR with us, it was an awakening to the fact, that whenever you leave the
    mainland of the US, which also includes Canada and Mexico (some people may
    not have had this issue in the past, but these are the rules per the 
  USDA.)
    that you must have in your possession a Certified USDA Veterinarian Health
    Certificate, now when you call your  vet and let them know you are going 
  out
    of the country, you need to ask if he/she is one, if not they will know
    where your closest one is, if not there is a listing on the United Stated
    Department of Agriculture website.

      Which I am willing to send to NAGDU/travel and tourism the information 
  so
    that everyone has the link to the as well.

    The link is:
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    When traveling especially with a service animal, in this case, a cruise.

    Planning ahead, if you know you want to cruise in April starting planning 
  as
    early as possible.  For those that have cruised before the staterooms are
    sometimes smaller than a hotel room, and having the room for the dog might
    be limited.  In this case, even though I will not be doing this again, I
    asked for an accessible stateroom, some of this might repeat when speaking
    of traveling period for someone who is disabled.  Because this was a 
  travel
    agent graduation cruise with Norwegian Cruise Lines, all us travel agents
    had balcony accommodations, and every level of the ships have an 
  accessible
    stateroom and no they are not more or less money then those for everyone
    else.

    When planning your cruise with a guide dog, you need to call like I said 
  way
    in advanced if you would like an accessible stateroom, there are many 
  people
    I am glad to say that are traveling, and these rooms go very fast.

    You need to let your travel agent, know you are bring your guide, they 
  will
    accommodate you but if you don't tell them, they will not know to make a 
  box
    for your dog to do his business.  Also, they do not put the box in your
    room, it is a health issue, and no they will not put the boxes on the
    balconies if you have one.

    On Norwegian Cruise Lines, what they do is they will ask you what kind of
    stuffing you want in the box, it is a similar box to what we do at
    convention only smaller.  The placing of it is in a crew area only area.

    Explanation here:  On a cruise, there is an area every few staterooms in
    between that the crew move between to take there carts or need to take an
    elevator to get to the next floor, basically behind the scenes, so near 
  our
    stateroom there was one of these doors and we were shown the box for the
    dog.

    Again, depending on the floor you are staying will determine where this 
  is.

    Maxx was confused at first because it was inside and not outside the box,
    and when Maxx is away anywhere, it takes him at least a day to go do his
    business, but he finally liked it and all was good.

    You also need to do your homework on where you are going in my case it was
    Orlando, Great Stirrup Cay (which is Norwegian's own private island in the
    Bahamas), all the cruise lines have them, and Nassau (Paradise Island) in
    the Bahamas.

    Orlando is a US State so there is no worry in that of where you want to go
    on an excursion, we decided not to go anywhere in Orlando, and stay on the
    ship, and check out the rest of what was available to do.

    We didn't go to Great Stirrup Cay because at the island they bring ship
    tenders to the ship and that day their was 9 and 10 foot swells and the
    manager of the island said it was to dangerous to bring the boats out, so 
  we
    had another day at sea. Also in the same area was Disney and Royal 
  Caribbean
    and they couldn't get into there islands as well. These private islands 
  are
    to shallow for the ships to have a pier to port to.

    In the Bahamas, we did have an issue with one of the excursions we wanted 
  to
    do.  I did call the excursion department with the cruise lines prior to 
  what
    we wanted to do, and they told me we never had a problem with services
    animals and our excursions.  Well, I did and the cruise line has been
    informed, I did give a report back to the Access Department and management
    upon my return, the good, the bad and the ugly.  They are on it, so that
    these issues never happen again.

    Anyway the issue we had was, I wanted to go swimming with the dolphins, my
    sister and brother-in-law, niece and nephew, were cruising with us, and 
  they
    were going to this.

    So when I registered for this on the ship they had no problem with it, but
    the following day I was told that I couldn't bring my dog.  This was not
    from the cruise lines but the people who run the program.  They were going
    to allow it this once just for me, since I was a travel agent. I said no,
    and that we were going to do something else.  I have the e-mail from the
    company themselves of the excuse of why they didn't want to dog there. I
    mean Maxx was not going to go in the water with the dolphins, the supplier
    was concerned, since afterwards that in the same area that they have sea
    lions and that they have a less tolerance for illness and that they were
    concerned that they would get sick from the dog.

    In either case, I don't do anything that all of you cannot go and do.

    We went to the Atlantis Resort and it was well worth it, had an awesome
    time:

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