Westbrook Housing Bus Trips

Westbrook Housing offers fun bus trips every month to activities including theater performances, 餐馆, shopping centers, and outdoor activities. Here is everything you need to know about bus trips.

Who can go?
Residents of Larrabee Village, Larrabee的伍兹, Larrabee的高地, 江景露台, 米尔布鲁克庄园, Preumpscot Commons and Spring Crossing residents and their personal aides may go on these trips. The bus only carries 14 passengers. Relatives of residents can go if there are opening at the bus driver’s discretion.

How do I sign up?
The flyers advertising each trip information will tell you how to register. Some trips are for all Westbrook Housing residents and some are organized by a single building for its residents.

For Westbrook Housing trips, you must call the trip line at 854-6767. For building trips, you usually simply sign up on a sheet posted in your building.

Sign the bus waiver before you ride.
Before you join a trip, you must sign a bus waiver. Click here to download and print out a bus waiver. Mail it or drop it off at Westbrook Housing’s office, attention Nikki Nappi, 在 30 丽莎哈蒙驱动器, 威斯布鲁克, ME 04092. Typically residents sign the form once a year.

How to pay for an activity.
You are expected to pay ahead of time by cash or check. You can pay the driver at the start of the trip. Cash and checks made out to WSC are accepted.

Are there refunds?
There will be a 100% refund if Westbrook Housing cancels the trip, for example because of weather. If you’ve signed up for a trip and do not go, no refund will be issued.

Cancelation policy.
If you sign up for a trip and can’t go, you are responsible for finding a replacement. You can do this by reviewing the sign-up sheet to see if there is someone on the trip’s waitlist or if it’s a Westbrook Housing trip, you must call the trip line at 854-6767 to ask if there is anyone on the wait list.

When you sign up, you commit to pay.
When you sign up (by writing or through a verbal commitment to a Westbrook Housing staff member) you are agreeing to go on the outing and pay the cost. You must comply with the refund rules.

Drop-off times are unpredictable.
When trips are open to all Westbrook Housing residents, the pick-up and drop-off times at each community will vary. The trip organizer will call you and tell you pick-up times, but he/she cannot predict when you’ll be dropped off after the activity. If you have an appointment later in the day after a trip, remember we can’t guarantee when you’ll get home in time for your appointment.

Rules of the Road

Personal items must go in overhead storage.
The bus provides tight quarters for 14 people, so personal items must go in the overhead storage space. If they don’t fit there, you need to leave them at your community.

No pull/shopping carts are allowed.
They will have to remain at your community. Walkers are welcome.

There is no bathroom on the bus.
Keep that in mind before you board.

A minimum of six residents must sign up.
Otherwise, the trip is cancelled.

The bus waits for no man or woman.
You must be ready when the bus arrives at your community, and be on board when it’s time to leave the event. It’s not the driver’s job to track down residents who have signed up for the ride but are not ready at boarding time. If you miss the bus when the activity is over, you will have to find your own transportation home.

Respect everyone.
Residents are expected to treat community helpers, office staff drivers and other passengers with respect.

Don’t distract the driver.
The driver may actively engage in conversation with passengers, but residents must not be distracting.

Please do not ride the van if you are not feeling well.
也, complete the “ICE” line on your registration form so we know whom to contact “in case of emergency” = ICE.

If you require an aide, be sure to include that on your trip application so a seat is reserved for him/her. If you require an aide, you will not be allowed on the bus without one. The aide rides at no cost. If you have a service animal, they must be leased and under control of the owner. You also must sign a release form and inform the activities coordinator before bringing your service animal. Pets are not allowed.

Relatives can come only if there are openings.
If the van is not at full capacity, a relative of a resident may join the trip with the permission of the driver. All riders must be at least age 18. Relatives will pay a slightly higher fee than residents.

All riders must wear seat belts. The driver can assist with seat belts if required.

Smoking, eating or drinking is prohibited.
No one may ride the van if they are under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The driver will make that judgment.

Disruptive behavior is not be tolerated.
Riders cannot disturb the driver or other residents; nor physically or verbally threaten other riders or the driver. Riders may not damage or destroy any equipment on the van. Such behavior will result in loss of ridership privileges appropriate to the offense. Residents will have to cover the cost of any damage they cause.

There is a weight restriction on the lift of 500 英镑.
All owners of electric wheelchairs must provide documentation of their wheelchair’s weight to the Activities Coordinator. Riders must disclose their weight so we can calculate an acceptable limit for admittance. No scooters are allowed on the van because they cannot be locked in place securely.

Westbrook Housing reserves the right to change the rules at anytime if there is a threat to the safety and well-being of the staff and residents participating in the outing.