[Travelandtourism] My Friend and I
vejas
brlsurfer at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 23:23:51 UTC 2013
Hi,
I don't know if you have this already, but if you use sendero
GPS, it has maps of most European countries (all of them that you
mentioned, except for Romania.) If you don't already use the GPS,
you can download the manual and buy the European map bundle so
that you can find destinations, both vehicle and pedestrian.
I haven't been to Europe but I brought that bundle because I was
curious to see what was around.
Vejas
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From: Keitei Colton <kekiangeles111 at gmail.com
To: "travelandtourism at nfbnet.org" <travelandtourism at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:45:34 -0700
Subject: [Travelandtourism] My Friend and I
Hello all,
My friend and I are planning a trip to a few different countries
in Europe and I was wondering if we could get some help. My
friend and I are planning to travel to France, Ireland, Scotland,
Germany, Poland, Romania, Switzerland and Italy. We are looking
at taking tours around castles, concentration camps and art
museums. We are also thinking about staying in hostile a and
traveling around by train, and when necessary, by either ferry or
plane. Is there anything that anyone on the mailing list can
help us with?
Thank you very much,
Keitei Colton
(435)-901-4265
555 South 200 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
kekiangeles111 at gmail.com
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IT ACCESSIBLE TO ALL CLIENTS (cheryl echevarria)
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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:57:36 -0500
From: cheryl echevarria <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com
To: travelandtourism <travelandtourism at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Travelandtourism] Happy New Year from NFB Travel &
Tourism
President, Cheryl Echevarria
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Happy New Year and good morning all:
The division is growing every day, and we hope with 2013 in full
gear we will make it one of the better ones.
After this e-mail I will be posting an item that was posted in
the Echevarria Travel Blog this morning. Hopefully we will have
pages for blogs on the NFB Travel & Tourism Website that is under
construction, I am the webmaster for that, and so it should be up
and running by the end of the week. The link will be
www.nfbtravel.org
Since we will be in Orlando at the National Convention, a number
of the Travel & Tourism officers and myself will be checking out
a number of things at Walt Disney World prior to the start of the
Convention, as well as, we will be having Mr. Mark Jones, Access
Manager, for both Walt Disney World and Disneyland parks at our
meeting, which will be July 2 from 1-4pm, and he will also be one
of our Tour Guide at the Magic Kingdom this year.
Some other people who have mentioned they might be coming to the
meeting and will give full agenda to the meeting once everything
is finalized. Such people as someone hopefully from Norwegian
Cruise Lines, BAB - Beautiful Accessible Barbados and others for
a panel discussion. So try and make plans to attend the meeting.
Every year, we plan on going to at least one of the theme parks,
since we will be in Orlando for the next 6-7 years.
If you haven't registered yet for the convention, as of January
1st, 2013 you can get all the information from the December and
January Braille Monitor or go to the NFB.org website and
register.
The NFB Travel & Tourism website will be up sometime by the end
of the week and we will be having information as well.
Some other things going on.
I know you have seen the postings but I will be posting this
again.
Our division is doing its first group trip, it is opened to
everyone to join, blind or not.
Here is the information, it is during meet the blind month of
October, if you are interested in going the 20% deposit is due by
January 30th, if you cannot make the 20% by then please contact
me and we can work out the details.
For those who are interested in going, you can contact to book
either myself at 631-456-5394 or Maurice Shackelford, Vice
President of the Travel & Tourism Division at 770-280-5029
We can accept checks and money orders made out to the NFB Travel
& Tourism Division and mailed to our Treasurer, Milton Taylor his
e-mail is milt2533 at gmail.com and his mailing address is below, we
can also accept credit card payments through paypal.com, let us
know and we will send you an e-mail for payment :
Milton Taylor, TreasurerNFB Travel & Tourism 654 W 1820 N,Orem,
Utah 84057-2081
Here is the information:
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND TRAVEL AND TOURISM DIVISION
PRESENTS:Group Trip to Las Vegas and some of the great National
Parks for EveryoneFrom October 9-13, 2013Pricing and Itinerary
follows
Pricing per person does not include transportation round trip to
Las Vegas, NV, but can be arranged. Also should you want to stay
an extra day prior to the trip starting or after trip ends can be
arranged and pricing will vary. Also travel insurance is
offered; please ask pricing upon booking your trip.
If you are totally blind and are worried about not enjoying the
trip because it might be to visual for you we are working with
Scenic Tours, Ron Helquist who is the owner of Scenic Tours and
Jason Murray, who is the manager, will make it happen. We want
everyone to enjoy the trip using all of your senses.
Pricing includes: Tour bus, tour guide, hotels, all meals,
entrance fees to the parks, taxes and fees, only thing not
included is the tip to the tour guide upon end of the trip.
Payment structure: 20% of trip due at booking, full deposit due
8/1/2013, and final payment due 9/1/2013. But we are offering
once 20% of trip has been paid, payment plans can be arranged.
Single Occupancy - $860 p.p. - $172 per person due at
bookingDouble Occupancy - $721 p.p. - $145 per person due at
bookingTriple Occupancy - $625 p.p. - $120 per person due at
booking
Itinerary:Day 1: Las Vegas, NV - Fly into Las Vegas, NV. You
will be met at the airport and shuttled to your hotel in downtown
Las Vegas. You will have the evening to explore Las Vegas and
catch some sleep before our big trip. Lodging at Bally?s Resort
Dinner Included
Day 2: Day 2 ThursdayGrand Canyon National Park & Page, AZ -
After an early breakfast, we will depart at 7am to the South Rim
of Grand Canyon National Park. We will cross over the new bridge
in front of Hoover Dam, the largest dam in the United States. We
will meet famous Route 66 in Kingman, AZ. After a short break,
we will continue down Route 66 until Williams, AZ. From there we
will enter into the National Park.
We will make 3 stops along the rim and view this natural wonder
of the world. We will also enjoy lunch inside the park before we
move on. After leaving the park we will enter the Navajo Indian
Reservation. We will traverse the reservation to Page, AZ. We
will lodge for the night in Page. Our lodging for the evening
will be at Quality Inn, Page AZ.
Lodging at Quality Inn Breakfast & Dinner Included (snacks and
water is supplied)
Day 3 Friday - Zion National Park & Bryce Canyon National Park.
Today we will depart Page for Zion National Park. Once we arrive
at the park, we will enjoy lunch at the Zion Canyon Lodge. Once
we are finished with lunch, we will enjoy seeing the not only
Zion Canyon and the beautiful oasis within the canyon, but we
will also see the east bench of Zion. It is a unique area that
offers a different view of the sandstone cliffs that make up Zion
National Park. Once we have enjoyed Zion National Park, we will
depart the park and go to Bryce Canyon National Park. In Bryce
Canyon, we will visit Fairyland, Sunset, and Bryce Points.
Afterward we will check into our hotel at Ruby?s Inn for the
evening. Lodging at Ruby?s Inn, UT Breakfast & Dinner Included.
Day 4 Saturday - After a delicious breakfast, we will depart
Bryce Canyon and travel down one of the most beautiful highways
in America, Highway 12. This road provides you with the beauties
of the sandstone canyons and the wonders of 9,500 ft mountain
vistas. We will then travel to Capital Reef National Park. In
the park we will some petroglyphs, the old school house, and the
capitol dome. Once we have finished enjoying Capital Reef, and
had a delicious boxed lunch, we will depart for our return
journey to Las Vegas. We will travel through the beautiful
Aquarius Plateau and then get back to the I-15 corridor. We will
stop in St George, UT for a final dinner and a pleasant walk in
town. After dinner, we will travel to Las Vegas, NV where we
will spend the night. Lodging at Las Vegas, NV Breakfast &
Dinner Included
Day 5 Sunday - Breakfast and returning to the airport
Disabled Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 of NY State
Leading the Way in Independent Travel!SNG Certified - Accessible
Travel Advocate!Cheryl Echevarria,
Ownerhttp://www.echevarriatravel.com631-456-5394reservations@eche
varriatravel.comhttp://www.echevarriatravel.wordpress.com2012
Norwegian Cruise Line University Advisory Board Member.
Affiliated as an independent contractor with Montrose TravelCST
- #1018299-10Echevarria Travel and proud member of the National
Federation of the Blind will be holding a year round fundraiser
for the http://www.NFBNY.org after Hurricane Sandy and other
resources. Any vacation package booked between November 6
2012-November 6, 2013 and vacation must be traveled no later than
12/30/2014 a percentage of my earnings will go to the affiliate.
Also is you book a Sandals for couples or Beaches for families
and friends resorts vacation, $100.00 per booking will go to the
affiliate as well. You do not need to be a member of the
NFB.org, just book through us.
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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 12:58:28 -0500
From: cheryl echevarria <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com
To: travelandtourism <travelandtourism at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Travelandtourism] TAKING THE DISNEY GUEST EXPERIENCE
TO THE
NEXT LEVEL: BUT IS IT ACCESSIBLE TO ALL CLIENTS
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Here is that blog posting I was talking about earlier:
Good morning all:
I send clients of abilities and disabilities to the different
Disney Resorts and Cruise Lines, and when they have new items
out for the Disney Guest Experience, I have to check to see if it
is accessible to all clients, especially the blind and disabled
clients.If you have been following my posts, and what I do for a
living as being a travel agent, especially a Travel Agent, who
specialty the Special Needs realm.
Yes I do everyone who wants to travel and I make sure that all
clients have the best vacation that money can buy.So, as of today
Monday, January 7, 2013, when you book with me to go to Walt
Disney World in Orlando Florida, and lets just educate a little
bit on this end, because people call me up and they want to go to
Epcot and Epcot is only one of the theme parks in the Walt Disney
World Resort in Florida.
Walt Disney World has (Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, MGM Studios, Animal
Kingdom, ESPN WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS, 2 Water Parks, Downtown
Disney - Shopping and other entertainment, miniature golf, Water
Sports, and so much more!) plus free shuttle service to clients
staying at the resort hotels from Orlando International.
Now I hope I haven't lost you.
The main topic is Taking the Disney Guest Experience to the next
level: But is it accessible to everyone!
As mentioned as of today at the Walt Disney World Resorts in
Orlando, FL. from the press release today it states:We?d like
you to be among the first to hear from Tom Staggs, Chairman, Walt
Disney Parks & Resorts, on how we plan to enhance the Guest
experience. Our efforts are driven by a fundamental desire to
exceed our Guests? expectations, and we aim to make your job, as
one of our valuable travel professional partners, better as well.
At Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, we continually push the
boundaries of creativity and innovation to deliver the best
possible experience for our Guests. We?re always looking for
ways to take what we do and do it even better. Over the past few
years, we?ve devoted considerable time and resources to create a
more immersive, more seamless and more personal experience for
each and every Guest who spends time with us. I know there?s
been significant speculation about these efforts among our fans,
so we?re pleased to give you a glimpse into the work we are doing
to take the entire Disney Guest experience to the next level.
Some of these initiatives are more apparent and can already be
seen by our Guests ? like our interactive queues at Walt Disney
World? Resort and the Enchanted Art on our cruise ships ? while
others are more behind-the-scenes and are focused on ?how?
visitors plan, access and enjoy their experiences with us. Over
the next several months, we?ll be rolling out a collection of
tools at the Walt Disney World Resort called MyMagic+ that will
give Guests more opportunities to customize and personalize their
entire visit.
Now that you know what I am talking about, I have sent out an
e-mail to Mr. Mark Jones, Access Manager, of both Walt Disney
World Resorts and Disneyland, to see if these are accessible to
the disabled.
The blind and visually impaired clients can access kiosks and
queues that have plugs on the machines like ATMS at banks and
other places so that we can put our headsets on and plug in and
use them, since we cannot few the screens, they maybe touch
sensitive but it we cannot see them, then they are not accessible
to all clients and guests.
We will see what happens on this. I will be having Mark Jones
sometime in the future probably in April or May on the Echevarria
Travel Show if you have been watching/listening over the last few
months. Also when I attend the Annual National Convention of the
National Federation of the Blind in July with the board member of
the NFB Travel & Tourism we will find out for ourselves if they
are accessible, or they have once again put out a product that is
not accessible to everyone at the time of launching them.Disney
and other places need to realize that you cannot have something
and say it is for the Disney Guest Experience when some guests
cannot experience them.
Cheryl Echevarria
Disabled Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 of NY State
Leading the Way in Independent Travel!SNG Certified - Accessible
Travel Advocate!Cheryl Echevarria,
Ownerhttp://www.echevarriatravel.com631-456-5394reservations@eche
varriatravel.comhttp://www.echevarriatravel.wordpress.com2012
Norwegian Cruise Line University Advisory Board Member.
Affiliated as an independent contractor with Montrose TravelCST
- #1018299-10Echevarria Travel and proud member of the National
Federation of the Blind will be holding a year round fundraiser
for the http://www.NFBNY.org after Hurricane Sandy and other
resources. Any vacation package booked between November 6
2012-November 6, 2013 and vacation must be traveled no later than
12/30/2014 a percentage of my earnings will go to the affiliate.
Also is you book a Sandals for couples or Beaches for families
and friends resorts vacation, $100.00 per booking will go to the
affiliate as well. You do not need to be a member of the
NFB.org, just book through us.
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