Holland America Line undertook the Shore Tender Accessibility Project, with Cap Sante Marine, Inc. of Anacortes, WA to provide wheelchair access to tenders. The prototype was installed on the Statendam for its 2000 Alaska season.
While the cited press release claims:
"Holland America Line has long been at the forefront of accessible ship design, and has always maintained a high percentage of handicap-accessible staterooms across all price categories on its vessels."
This has been proven to be false by the editor of the Rolling Rains Report through shipboard inspections revealing a lack of high-end accessible cabins on even its most recent ships. Their Tender Project has not yet spawned a thorough rethinking of ship design.
Posted by rollingrains at April 9, 2005 09:04 PM