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Thank you Emily, this is exactly what I was looking for! Having continued researching, I found what I think might actually work better than ABD, for our needs, called Africa Dream Safaris. They do a private tour for JUST your group in Tanzania, and as that is where the Serengeti is (and my...

We have a travel agent that books 95% of her bookings as special needs bookings, but has as yet not done ABD (she IS however very Disney aware as the majority of her bookings are Disney related). She is working on finding out more information for us as well with ABD and other agencies. I have...

thank you for your thoughts. Absolutely we would get travel insurance, we never do extended travel without it. And yes, Africa is definitely a very different cultural experience than what we have seen and experienced before as a family, I have however experienced travel in Europe many years...

Shipping the formula ahead is what we are doing for the Alaska trip (3 weeks worth is far more than I want to haul along on a cruise!) and will be good practice to learn the kinds of packing we need to make sure it is safe and secure for mailing. Great idea, and definitely something I will tuck...

By the time we go the hope and plan would be no scooter would be needed. He can walk a mile at a time with short breaks now, probably 2-3 miles a day for things he is interested in. He can definitely with help climb into busses, as we have done that kind of thing before and will continue to do...

I don't mind. Especially as it helps us to figure out what we can and can't do do for him. He has come so far in life, we want to try to make dreams come true... He was born with Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH... Means that his abdominal organs were in his chest at birth, 50% of these...

He is my young adult son, and has pretty much always wanted to go to Africa. We had to turn down his Make a Wish to go to Madagascar when he was 5 because his health was way to precarious at that point! San Diego zoo/wildlife park, etc was about the best we could do... we have been to probably...

Thank you, I will. And... since he won't be eating ANYTHING on the cruise (he is strictly tube fed and occasionally gets nutrition through his IV access) perhaps that may also help!

Hmm. I guess this means we will need to buy a water package for my son's medical needs. He uses a liter a day for his oral rehydration solution (powdered pedialyte essentially) and because he is missing half of his intestines we really DO have to use bottled water for it if it is not from our...

He actually uses 5 outlets just for his machinery. Then there his ipad/ipod (autistic spectrum... i.e. mommy sanity savers!). Crazy, right? Obviously something we need to plan ahead and contact them about ahead of time!

Hmmmm.. I am assuming since my son uses not only bipap but also an oxygen concentrator, multiple feeding pumps... he uses 2 per day...., and his scooter that we will be bringing with us that they will be able to provide appropriate power strips for us to use for charging all his machines? (how...

Ok, so I have had a recommendation from a friend who also has similar special needs as my son to use RCCL for our Alaska cruise if we decide not to go with DCL... does anyone have experience with any other cruise lines and special needs? For example my young adult son is on the autistic...

I have a question as well, if anyone can answer.... how good is RCCL at working with disabilities as compared with DCL? We last traveled DCL in 2008 and they were fantastic, and as we are planning a trip to Alaska in 2017 are trying to decide if it would be worth trying RCCL given the...

Really appreciate all the comments in this thread. We are hoping to cruise Alaska in 2017 with our disabled young adult son (he uses a scooter some of the time, bipap, tube feeds etc, and is on the autistic spectrum). He LOVES animal and wildlife photography... on a recent trip to see...

wonderful information, thank you! He can walk some, and in fact his physicians want him to. Its just when it gets to over a mile without rest he needs the scooter. (for example he can handle our little zoo in Boise, but it takes him 3-4 hours to see the whole thing, partly because he is...

I had a similar question... we are looking at an Alaskan Cruise, probably in 2017. My son uses a scooter that is about 23 inches wide but at THIS time only needs it for excursions (that may change in the future depending on his health). In the past we always booked a HA accessible cabin because...

A friend of mine is going to Disneyland in a few weeks, and has agreed to purchase (assuming they are available!) Diamond anniversary ears for my son. Any idea how much money I should send with her for this purchase? My son LOVES ears, he has the 50th anniversary ears, as well as the first pair...

Count us in too! :) Check in Paradise Pier on the May 10th, check out on the 15th... WooHoo! Celebrating our special needs son's 18th birthday and high school graduation... the docs never expected him to reach this milestone, so we are over the moon with joy!

Not bad for a holiday... I received a phone call response this afternoon and she spent a lovely 20 minutes on the phone answering all my questions, helping me with all kinds of issues. She contacted all the restaurants for me so we could choose whichever one we wanted to go to, and all the...

Just checking, though I probably already know the answer.... my son is strictly tube fed, hasnt eaten since he was 9 months old and is now 18 yrs old. We are going to DL in May of this year to celebrate his graduation and actually reaching his 18th birthday (he wasn't even supposed to live to...