Renting a mobility scooter at Port Canaveral

[Kritn4]

Has anyone had a good experience, renting a mobility scooter to be delivered to the port at Canaveral? Is there a company that delivers the scooter directly to the state room?

Also, people that use mobility scooters-

Were they easy to get up and down the gangway at ports? Especially at castaway key.

Thank you for any advice

 

[happycamper47]

For DCL they are placed in the Stateroom, or at least that was always our experience. Scoot-A Round as well as Special Needs at Sea both had that policy. As far as getting up and down the gangway Cast Members are normally there to help and for safety reasons. We've never had any problems. I'd recommend Special Needs at Sea.

 

[lanejudy]

Brevard Medical and Walker Mobility also rent for delivery to Port Canaveral.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Special Needs at Seas leaves the ECV’s right at the port, outside the terminal, so, you get to use it to get on the ship. We arrived by DCL transportation, and a CM went around to the other side and brought the ECV right to me.

 

[happycamper47]

Special Needs at Seas leaves the ECV’s right at the port, outside the terminal, so, you get to use it to get on the ship. We arrived by DCL transportation, and a CM went around to the other side and brought the ECV right to me.

That's apparently fairly new, but even better...

 

[bobbiwoz]

My experience was in September on the Wish . It was a Halloween on the High Seas cruise on September 8-12.

 

[JPTexan82]

Outside the United States ECV’s are not a thing, as most countries aren’t tuned into this. It amazes me the amount of usage here.

 

[happycamper47]

Outside the United States ECV’s are not a thing, as most countries aren’t tuned into this. It amazes me the amount of usage here.

However, Special Needs at Sea does have a link for Europe...and Scoot-A-Round also provides service in Europe.

https://www.specialneedsatsea.com/cruise_category/croisieurope/

Scootaround Powered by WHILL provides a wide range of cruise mobility rentals at nearly 50 major ports throughout the US, Canada, and Europe.

 

[tkd lisa]

We used walker, and picked it up outside which was helpful for the fairly long (at least for my disabled mom) walk aboard.

My experience is that ecvs can be a challenge on the ship. You have to park them and have someone bring it to your stateroom unless your in a handicap accessible room. For us, they made us leave it by the deck 2 restaurant, which added 20 minutes to any outing.

In addition the hallways and restaurant aisles are narrow and my mom had challenges navigating due to the scooter width. We went with a collapsible push wheelchair on our last two cruises which was better for us. It fits in the room next to the desk, can make it around the state room host carts, etc. But my mom isn't very heavy, and we had able bodied people to push.