Cruise Ship Diabetes Navigator
Ship Medical, Port Days, and Insulin With No Fridge
For couples, families and retirees taking a cruise with diabetes, a week at sea with no pharmacy run.
Inside Cruise Ship Diabetes Navigator
- The full guide, read online as a book, always current as new issues land
- Six short videos to share before or during the trip, added after launch. Everyone who bought earlier gets each one, and the price goes to $50 once all six are in.
- An overview deck that walks the whole trip in one sitting, for the planning talk at the kitchen table.
- One-page team cards for how your travelers talk and work together: a before-we-leave huddle card, a who-does-what card, a card for when something goes wrong, and one card per issue.
- Printable checklists: packing, an emergency protocol, and a partner discussion guide.
- A 6x9 paperback to carry in the bag, with the team cards, checklists and emergency protocol each on its own page. It comes after the online guide.
A cruise gives you seven days where no one is going to the pharmacy for you, so you decide how much is enough before the ship leaves port. You walk into the ship's medical center on day one, find a place for insulin when the cabin has no fridge, and plan six hours off the ship around a boarding time. The guide also covers food at every hour, sea days with no shape, and the clock the ship changes while you sleep.
A week with no pharmacy run means the whole group agrees on the plan before the ship leaves port. The team cards cover who carries the port-day kit and who knows the way to the medical center.
Every issue in this guide
The guide, online as a book or a printable PDF, in 10 issues:
- 1. Seven Days Where Nobody Is Going to the Pharmacy For You
- 2. How Much Is Enough When There Is No Store
- 3. Walking Into the Ship's Medical Center on Day One
- 4. Where the Insulin Lives When the Cabin Has No Fridge
- 5. Food Available Twenty-Four Hours and What That Does Over Seven Days
- 6. Off the Ship for Six Hours With a Boarding Time
- 7. Sea Days, the Drink Package, and Days With No Shape
- 8. The Ship Changes the Clock While You Sleep
- 9. Sick at Sea, and the Distance to a Hospital
- 10. What to Write Down Before You Get Off the Ship
The guide follows one cruise that goes well, from packing for seven days with no store through a port day and a sea day, to what you write down before you get off the ship.
How it will work
- Sign in free and you'll hear the day it lands.
- On launch day, add it to your cart in the BTD Store and check out for $25.
- Open your access link and read it with everyone traveling, before you go.
BTD Vacation Time: Online Coaching built around your trip
Three months of online sessions with your trip as the syllabus: a planning session with everyone who is traveling, written trip notes your family can carry, a check-in while you are away, and a debrief once you are home. It starts at $8,000, and availability is extremely limited. Family-to-family coaching, never medical advice.
If you're taking a cruise and want help fitting it to your family, that's what BTD Vacation Time is for.
If your family wants Trapper on the trip itself, that is Diabetes Concierge: four days is $46,000 plus travel, inside the Diabetes Concierge range of $28,000 to $72,000 plus travel.
See BTD Vacation Time → Complete the intake form →Questions about a BTD Travel Guide or an order: Ask through the question form