Holidays for people in wheelchairs

lulu1

Hoping to go on our first ever foreign holiday sometime this year. One of our party uses a wheelchair and we have no idea where to go. It must be on the flat and just about as warm as it would be in Ireland on a good summer.

Would that be possible?

abarkie

What is your budget and what are you looking to do / what type of holiday do you want?

What facilities do you need eg Hoist etc

My partners daughter is in a wheelchair and we have been to numerous destinations

We found Dubai one of the worst places due to very high kerbs and pavements either not wide enough or grass covered, so the wheelchair sunk in the grass and the Dubai mall, we had 3 shop staff carry the chair down a floor as there were no lifts

Subject to your circumstances, i would say you need to think holiday first and disability second

Often places have disabled entrances that bypass the queues and are very helpful - Empire State building,Rome's Colosseum and Orlando theme park rides are a few that spring to mind

Loveinapril

The IWA are great for this sort of info. Maybe contact them. They have ads in their newsletter for holiday destinations for wheelchair users, including resorts with pool hoists and accessible bathrooms.

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That sounds just perfect our friend is not confined to a wheelchair but at the same time cant walk any distance Would it be suitable for teenagers as we will have 3 with us. Then again if there is a pool there they will be fine.
I am going to look that up thank you

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Brilliant will check out the other hotel

Eponymous

Another, cheaper location in Lanzarote is the Nautilus Suites in Matagorda.

It's very flat all around there so getting down to the seafront and a lovely wide promenade is very easy with ramps down onto the beach and wooden walkways in the sand to take you to the sunbeds. The Nautilus also has an apparatus for getting wheelchair users into the main pool as well as accessible rooms with wet rooms.

For a first foreign holiday, Lanzarote would be ideal. Even most of the hire firms have adapted cars/people carriers available. Take a look at Cabrera Medina for those.

Ashbx

Los Christianos in Tenerife is very wheelchair friendly also.