The ‘D’ List takes a regular look at new things in a disabled world and as the holidays season approaches we thought we’d digress into useful sources of disability travel information. These are not exhaustive and disabled travel is never that simple but we hope these may lessen the anxiety of going somewhere new. 1ST.…
Update 2016: Originally based on a visit in 2013 we reviewed an accessible villa in Portugal and a hotel in The Algarve. Casa do Lago the villa featured below, now has a video of it’s facilities and at 3.25 minutes you can see it’s accessible bathroom. On the northern Silver Coast of Portugal beside the…
Last year we produced some travel tips for the ‘less able’. This year they’re still valid and I’d like to add one more……Wherever you’re going to stay make sure the access is completely paved. Last year we went to Mykonos.It was a great trip apart from our arrival. Where we stayed was a little out…
Update on Madrid Nov. 2014: Our friends at EIB in Madrid have given us some useful sites to look at re accessible Madrid. Here they are:- Accessible rooms http://www.spain.info/en/informacion-practica/turismo-accesible/guias/Madrid-accommodation-accessible.pdf Places to go with access http://www.spain.info/en/informacion-practica/turismo-accesible/guias/Madrid-resources-accessible.pdf Other information on Accessible Spain http://www.spain.info/en/informacion-practica/turismo-accesible/ ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… It seems we’ve covered the Blue Badge Style award winning journey to Madrid in every which…
Last year, in our guide to less able air travel, we collated the information provided by pretty near all of the major airlines in the UK. The aim of the guide was to start a conversation and to create a more enlightened picture based on the experiences of BBS readers. We tried to make clear that we weren’t…
The Musical Lieutenant has sent us her story of becoming temporarily disabled on holiday this summer and her terrible trip home. It turns out that East Asia may be quite a lot better for wheelchair users than England is…. Over the summer, I was fortunate enough to go travelling in Asia. I was mainly in…
Yesterday we profiled how it has become easier for less able people to drive a car. Today we’re going to go one step further and tell you about Aerobility – the charity dedicated to teaching disabled people how to fly a plane. If space is the final frontier, then the skies are surely the penultimate…
The Air Access Wheelchair is a great design that could improve travelling by plane for the less able. In the wake of the Paralympics, Priestmangoode have created a Air Access Wheelchair that will transform air travel for passengers with reduced mobility. Without wanting to oversimplify things, it’s basically an airplane seat on wheels but it’s much more…
For the less able, travelling by plane can be difficult but it’s more difficult when you don’t know what you need to do and where you need to go. Different airlines have different policies regarding disabled passengers making it hard to know where you stand before you travel. With this is mind, we decided to…