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Regent Cruise Line Actively Discourages People with Disabilities

Review for Bermuda Cruise on Seven Seas Navigator
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Bob Zen
10+ Cruises • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Oct 2018
Cabin: Penthouse Suite

I have been a long time Regent cruiser and was concerned about the quality of service after the takeover by Norwegian. In October my wife and I took a 10-day cruise to Canada and then Bermuda. We found the staff as warm and friendly as in the past and the food was at least as good. The entertainment was moderate as I expect on a small ship, but the performers were enthusiastic. But…

My wife uses a mobility scooter and transport chair which we brought on the cruise. The access to the pool deck and specialty restaurants was made especially difficult. Scooters had to navigate the lip between the corridor and deck and they created an extra barricade with an inclined plane to ease the scooter across the lip.

But the plane did not slope to the ground but started with a two-inch vertical rise. To negotiate this the scooter had to be perpendicular to the rise and moving relatively fast. The problem was the stairwell was close to the deck access and there was little room for maneuvering. It was worse leaving the deck since the fast-moving scooter was headed toward the stairwell. A tense experience, to say the least.

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Penthouse Suite

Cabin C

We were given a cabin for the handicapped that took a regular cabin Penthouse cabin and downgraded it. The matress on the bed was too high for my wife to navigate. We asked for a stepstool bur nothing was not available.

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