Cruise Guest Sues Royal Caribbean After Mobility Scooter Left in Walkway
If you're sailing on Jewel of the Seas or another Royal Caribbean ship, note that scooters must be stored and recharged in staterooms and parked out of walkways, fire doors, and elevator lobbies per company policy. In crowded venues like Casino Royale, be mindful of parked mobility devices and other guests. This applies regardless of which of Jewel of the Seas' 3- to 4-night Caribbean and Bahamas sailings from Fort Lauderdale you're on.
What jumps out to me is that Parsons isn't suing the guest who allegedly bumped her or the scooter's owner — she's going after Royal Caribbean directly, betting that a jury will find the line failed to enforce its own written scooter policy. That policy is public and specific: scooters must fit through a stateroom door and stay parked out of walkways. Whether Casino Royale's roughly 6,459 square feet and 195 machines were genuinely overcrowded that night is unclear from the filing, and that ambiguity is the whole case. This is the second scooter-related suit Cruise Hive has flagged recently, following a Carnival Valor debarkation fall, plus a fatal Celebration Key incident — a pattern worth watching. My read: cruise lines will face pressure to actively police scooter parking rather than just post rules. If I were sailing, I'd give parked scooters a wide berth in tight casino aisles.