Haemodialysis Cruising Holidays

With haemodialysis onboard you can enjoy a cruising holiday with family and friends relaxed knowing that your treatments are available on board your ship together with a renal specialist and dedicated dialysis team. Using the latest dialysis equipment (an integral part of the ship’s infirmary) for your on-board sessions, we have fully equipped and staffed ships travelling all over the world, we're sure you will find just the cruise to meet your requirements and most importantly your expectations....

Sea and River Cruises with Haemodialysis

Dialysis cruises are an alternative for guests seeking recreation, relaxation and adventure in their holidays. It's fantastically reassuring knowing that your dialysis is onboard and that you won't have to get up and travel to a unit miles away for treatment. It's also reassuring to know that you have a renal specialist onboard together with a dialysis team just incase you have any concerns. Many of our clients rate their holiday treatment extremely highly and are always impressed by the high level of professionalism not to mention the benefits of using the latest Fresenius equipment.

Haemodialysis is available onboard cruise ships visiting a wide range of destinations including the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, USA & Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, Argentinia, Brazil, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuala, Australia, China, Singapore, Dubai and around the coast of the UK.

You can choose to cruise onboard contemporary 4* cruise ships, small and intimate 5* ships or why not treat yourself to a cruise onboard 5* plus luxury cruises. Alternatively you may prefer a river cruise sailing along the beautiful Blue Danube onboard wonderfully appointed 5* cruise vessels.

For the more technically interested, the onboard dialysis equipment is an integral part of the ship’s infirmary together with a team of experienced nurses and specialist doctor who will take care of you from the beginning of your cruise right up to your disembakation. The equipment is the Fresenius 4008, with full volumetric control, sodium modelling and are set up to handle your individual dialysis prescription. All you have to do is sit back relax and look forward to enjoying your cruise!

Cruising with Haemodialysis....What We do

After chatting with you about the type of cruises and itineraries on offer and you have chosen your cruise our work begins. We take care of everything from there on. All of the required pre-departure coordination, inter-unit liason, and medical administration with your renal unit right through to all of the necessary onboard co-ordination with our ship-side renal team, and, following final approval by our onboard dialysis specialist your cruise arrangements are finalised.

Within this process we also take care of any other requirements you may have. This could include obtaining permission for wheelchairs or scooters to be taken onboard or making the arrangements for the delivery directly to your cabin of any specialist equipment you may require during your cruise. This is all part of our service and comes at no extra charge to you our client.

We are not a call centre and as such you will have a seamless, one to one personal service from your holiday dialysis co-ordinator, who will contact you with regular updates and progress reports all the way through from booking to your cruise departure.

Over the years we have sent many delighted dialysis clients on cruising holidays, most of whom had never cruised before and who now number many of our clients who cruise again and again. We understand the sensitivies involved in taking your first trip with dialysis and hopefully our experience will lend confidence to your decision and help you to find the cruise that best suits your requirements whilst taking care of everything else involved in creating a holiday that you, your family and/or friends will remember.

You will without doubt have many questions if you are considering a cruise for the first time, so please do not hesitate to telephone us on 0844 8002624 or alternatively send your questions in on the form at the bottom of this page and we will endeavour to get back to you promptly.

Whichever cruise you choose, our experience and in depth knowledge will ensure that you, your family and friends enjoy the holiday of a lifetime – a holiday we hope you will want to repeat again and again.

A word of warning....Cruising can become addictive

Just a quick Note...

As you may have noticed, our site is continually being updated and shortly will have details of all of our latest land based holidays, cruise itineraries and lots of information relevant to holidays with haemodialysis. If you would like us to send you an email when the site is completed (although we will always be adding to our site to keep it interesting and up to date) please contact us via the links and we'll send you a note. We won't send any spam or unsolicited emails as we know how irritating that can be, nor will we pass on your email address to any third party.

Should you have any suggestions for articles, musings or information that you consider merit publishing or you would like to pen a few lines yourself please send it to us in an email. Also, why not send us a couple of your holiday snaps or photos of the unit etc and we'll include them on the website, we know how much confidence you need to take the first step, and even if you're not a client of ours (which we hope you will become) we would still like to think this site will be of some use in making people aware of what's out there holiday wise.

We believe the best recommendation for a holiday is a personal recommendation so top of our 'to do' list is a review section where we hope our visitors and clients will share experiences, knowledge and perhaps some 'top tips' for making your holiday one to remember (for all the right reasons).

Thanks for visiting we hope to see you again soon.

Lisa Parnell DipM MCIM

Cruise Specialist & Dialysis Co-ordinator

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