Disability Travel Suggestions

I’ve travelled all 7 continents, but in recent times have been facing progressive disability with MS. Heat is not my friend, but neither is icy cold nor slippery surfaces, nor hills. My world is narrowing. I welcome any suggestions for hotels & places which are as step free and smooth in surface as possible. I can just about do a smooth surface on a stick but this is not going to last.

Ginger83

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058302699/disability-travel-suggestions

Ireland or abroad?

Strumms

personally I’d get and bring a rollator. That way you can pick any destination and not worry.

you’ll get your bearings after a day or two and know what trips or excursions you might want to take with the rollator and what ones only the stick. Might be the rollator stays in the hotel room for the majority of the holiday but it’s there if and when preferred and will be helpful for transfers to and from the airport.

fits

Finland in summer. Reasonably flat and good wide footpaths usually. Helsinki is beautiful in summer and has good public transport.

I’m due to Thailand this month. As mobility is getting worse I think I will have to bring rollator, and notify airline.

Back In 2000s I used to be familiar with bringing my elderly mother on lots of great overseas trips, including huge case of continence wear etc. She was great at doing her bit of directing rolling luggage with her hand, taking massive bags in her tiny lap, all with great humour “we’re on holiday, yay!”’

In her own day, back in 1940s she prided herself in her independence of solo travel, I subsequently drew from that model and started solo tracel at 17, if you discount the Wales ferry trips at 17.

Now I’m frighteningly becoming, at times, more disabled than my mother was in her 80s. I’ve had “bad turns” in addition, observed to have had seizures. Not a bit confident in solo travel, other than certain places.

alexago

What about cruises? I read that the newest ships have made more amenities available to passengers with limited mobility and other disabilities.

Mrs OBumble

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Thank you , ChatGPT. Would you care to share these gems with us?

Ginger83

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I would be very interested in reading your findings also please.

I was in Mexico at Christmas, Maya Riviera and I must say I had no issues with accessibility as the Occidental Xcaret hotel had a great set-up of paths and right next door to Xcaret theme park with direct access. Went on a bus excursion to Chichen Itza where there were se real wheelchair users accommodated

I’m booked to Costa Rica of all places for August. They have a government policy of access for all abilities in the jungle walks and hotels. Paths have been laid out to accommodate everyone and local people trained and employed to assist where necessary.