[Travelandtourism] Disney Announces Important Information Regarding European Union Regulations

[cheryl echevarria]

Not only that Vicki and all.
There are other excursions that you don't need to take through the cruise lines, either a good travel agent doing the work for you who recognizes what you need, or do it yourself. There are many opportunities that we can do, that others don't want us to do.
It is not only letting the excursion office go, but the people booking your cruise or any other transportation.
I mean take for example and not a cruise, the trip to las vegas and the canyons of the west that our Division is doing.
We are still taking reservations for that as well.
That we are making sure that we have a guide that is the owner of the company by the way, who is going to make sure we are not just sitting there on the buses and them pointing at things we cannot see.
If you haven't booked yet and want to go. The information is on the www.nfbtravel.org website. Still a work in progress, but getting there.
Cheryl

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> From: vratcliffe01 at comcast.net
> To: travelandtourism at nfbnet.org
> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 15:53:38 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Disney Announces Important Information	Regarding European Union Regulations
> 
>      I'll chime in here with a couple comments from experience.  My
> preferred cruise lines are Royal Caribbean or Celebrity but in 2004, I took
> a wonderful cruise on Holland America to Russia from Denmark.  Another blind
> friend and I had absolutely no problem going on tours or getting around the
> ship.  In 2005 I took another cruise with Holland America to the Panama
> Canal with the same friend and worked with an access agent, who was
> fantastic, for the trip.  We booked our tours in advance but when getting on
> the ship, the lady in charge of the shore excursions told us on the third
> day of the trip that we would not be able to leave the ship unless we had a
> guide.  She really, I think, freaked out as to how blind people could get
> around so my friend and I telephoned the travel agent and a lot of emails
> were sent between the cruise line and the travel agency.  We did not need
> guides but they were provided and we were able to do the tours that we had
> booked.
> 
>      Now when booking a cruise, I notify the shore excursions department in
> regard to the tours that I have booked and tell them that I will not need
> any accommodations unless it is a kayak tour and I would need a guide.  I
> print and take the confirmations received from the cruise line or shore
> excursions or from the travel agent and if there is any doubt or question, I
> pull out the papers which states in writing the confirmations.
> 
>      My only concern about this matter is that I would not want any company,
> cruise or tour, to deny anyone access to going on a tour that a person could
> very well do.
> 
> Vicki Ratcliffe
>   
> 
> 
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