P&O Ventura?

[hocus pocus]

Some friends of ours are cruising for the first time this summer, and have realised that one of their number has a
phobia about using a lift to get to and from different decks,so they have asked me to come on here and ask if
there are staircases that will enable them use. They have
tried to contact P &O without success. Please help. Thanks.

[wardie100]

I havent been on the ventura ship but all the P&O ships i have been on have staircases next to every lift. THe P&O website probably has a deck plan showing it, i'll go have a look for you now.

[craft1948]

I always cruise with P&O...........all ships have stairs as well as lifts..........fire regs you know.........

[Buenchico]

No cruiseliner would be given a sea-worthiness certificate if inter-deck access relied solely upon the use of lifts. You can be confident that there will be stairs available. In fact, if you examine the deck plans, you'll see that the stairs are directly opposite the lifts. e.g. this is one end of A Deck:
http://www.pocruises.com/DeckOverlay.axd?ShipN ame=Ventura&DeckName=A%20Deck
(Use the drop down menus to view plans of other parts of the ship).

Chris

[wardie100]

http://www.pocruises.com/Ships/Ventura/Decks.a xd

if you click on the link that says deck plan next to any of the floor levels you should be able to see the pic of the stairs next to the lifts.

I've just thought I hope your fiend is reasonably fit as you tend to do quite a lot of swapping floors and if you're going from your cabin on F deck up to say the sports deck then that is a good 9/10 flights of stairs!

[pinkpenguin]

I went on the Ventura last summer. Dont worry staircases easy to find. Hope they have a good holiday.

[craft1948]

wardie I always fancied cruising with a fiend...so much more exciting.....

[wardie100]

haha yeah I noticed that mistake after i posted, i just hoped no one would notice :P

[Naomicorlett]

This site ought to have an automatic splee chucker.

[hocus pocus]

Thanks so much everybody, I'll phone them straightaway.

[lilacben]

You need stairs to walk up and down after all the food they give you.!!

[tamborine]

Staircases on outer decks.....hang on tight in wind - easy to be blown off into soup.

[coccinelle]

About lift phobia; there are those who can get into a lift if there are other people in it but would never get in on their own or with just one other person AND there are those who won't get into a lift if there ARE other people in it but would get in on their own.

[auntiebertie]

The only website to use re cruises is:http://boards.cruisecritic.com/index.php
There is a link to P&O, there is a link to what to do in Ports of Call and there is a link to the Roll Call which is communicating with others on boards. Ventura has had some terrible reviews so good luck!!