In this video, I'm going to walk through the process of filling
out the NCL special needs form.
And this case I've already made a reservation.
I reserved an accessible cabin.
I'll show you what happens next.
The next thing that happens is you get a email from Norwegian cruise
lines, and this is what the email looks like and associated with.
It is a PDF form.
And it'll have your reservation number on good ideas to go ahead and copy
the reservation number or get it off the email because you're going to
need it when you start filling out the form and then it goes through
your accessible state room policies.
I'm not going to read this to you.
The one thing that is really important.
And is that it talks about the need to keep your wheelchair
or your scooter in the cabin.
You cannot leave it in the hall, which is why, in most cases, you want
to make sure that you either have a very large state room or you want
to have an accessible state room.
You can get by.
In a for example, we went to Alaska with a balcony cabin.
With my granddaughter, my wife and I are in a regular balcony and we were okay.
It was a little scrunchie, but we were able to do it and do it in a way
that was safe and an interior cabin.
The odds are pretty good that it's not going to work well.
Okay.
So what happens in the bottom of this letter?
There is a link that takes you to their access form.
And when you click the link, you wind up here.
You wind up here, which is the guests special needs request information.
And I started filling this out.
Now, it pre-fills out the ship and the sailing date, but you have to put in
your reservation number and then you put in your email address and I've
already filled this out from my wife.
And so I'll go through what I checked.
Do we require accommodations?
Yes.
If you don't check the mobility.
A box.
My guess is, is your risk of losing your Spanx state room facilities.
We don't need a shower stool, but we do need a toilet seat riser.
So I marked that mark, that I, and bringing a scooter
battery operated, gel packed.
There's the information that they want on the scooter.
Now, in this case, I did not fill this out and this is not absolutely necessary.
Uh, this primarily is used in the event that they wind up putting a,
you know, you're going to have to tender or you're in a port where the
gangway is narrow and trying to get you to the gangway is a challenge.
So they need to make sure that they can get you through the doorways.
It wants to know if you're a full-time wheelchair user.
In my case, my wife is not, she needs it for distance and she
uses it in place of a Walker.
If she's going to walk.
Can you take care of your own needs on board without assistance?
I believe that if you check don't check, yes, there, they may deny you
a boarding and they may tell you that, that you're not that you cannot cruise
with them because they're not going to have somebody that can take care of you.
Are you able to walk up and down steps?
My wife can manage steps, not a lot of steps, but you can manage a few.
So I'm gonna mark that.
Yes.
Do you require a wheelchair assistance and embarkation, and debarkation
now this is only at the port, not in your, not at, uh, for port stops
is only getting on and off the ship.
And so I'm going to check.
Yes, because I want some help maneuvering my wife, the wheelchair,
and the luggage up to the ship.
So normally they'll provide somebody that'll come down from the
ship, push my wife's wheelchair.
And get her up on the ship.
That way, if I'm, if we're using a scooter, like we are this time, we
might say no, because I may not need it.
If the scooters in the room, I'm obviously going to check.
Yes.
Because I'm going to need help getting up there.
So again, that explains, it talks about vision, what your situation is.
If you're bringing a service animal, you will check yes.
And dot tells you what you need to take care of.
They only accept.
They only accept, uh, animals that are ADA animals.
So emotional support dogs are not accepted.
Now, if you're hearing you want to mark that, if you need a sign language
interpreter, you want to make sure that you notify them at least 90 days.
And I would recommend the, as soon as you decide on the cruise, get it booked.
I would make sure I check this.
If you're pregnant, you tells you what you need to provide
your allergies and special diet.
So if you wanted to gluten free, which they says they can accommodate,
you have a nut allergy, any of those kinds of things, you want to make
sure that you mark it so that, that you don't have to worry about it.
It also tells you that when you get on board, you'll meet with the
executive chef or the restaurant manager to make sure they understand.
Dialysis.
This is a question that comes up often.
They will let you do dialysis on board.
You can do self peritoneal, self hemo dialysis.
You can do hemo dialysis.
If you're traveling on a cruise, for example, there's a company
that does dialysis at sea, where they provide technicians to do it.
You have to have your own supplies, and if you need to have them
delivered, you need to provide information on who delivers them.
Breathing, my wife and I both have asthma.
So I checked that bi-pap, we're going to both carry that.
Uh, if you're going to have contracts, oxygen, you need to check that.
Or if he's oxygen concentrator, if you're diabetic, uh, in particular, you want to
let them know if you need a refrigerator and a sharps container, which most of
the modern ships have both of those.
Anyway, medication, if there's something special that you need.
You want to make sure that, uh, and actually I should say if there's
something that if you miss it or might cause a reaction, you probably
want to make sure you let them know.
In my case, we both take medicine, but none of us particularly significant if you
have any kind of cognitive intellectual or developmental disabilities, which
would include, I mentioned autism down syndrome, but it also includes a dementia.
Alzheimer's those kinds of things.
In this section, they want to know if you need help with the pier,
and if you need a private safety or muster drill, and anything else
that you want to tell them tells you to advise them as soon as possible.
If anything changes you check the box, type, your name hit, submit the form.
Now at this point in time, you have submitted what they need in
the way of special needs requests.
But if we go back to the letter, there is a, another.
A piece of information that another link there for you, and we're going
to cover that in the next video.
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