Please let me know of places you know that are wheelchair accessible and great to visit for vacation anywhere in the world. Thanks!
Please let me know of places you know that are wheelchair accessible and great to visit for vacation anywhere in the world. Thanks!
I travel a lot in the US. Generally if you stay in tourist areas and stick with cities with lots of buildings you will do OK.
Washington DC is very accessible as long as you stay in DC, and don’t try to venture too far away into the neighboring states.
New York City is really very easy for the most part as long as you don’t mind taking buses. The subways are not all accessible and I find difficult to use. Some restaurants & shops are just too tiny to get into and move around easily.
Chicago is tough. The buses are good, but the sidewalks are in very poor repair and lack a lot of curbcuts. My body hurts after a day out and about in Chicago. The museums are very accessible once you get to them. Michigan Avenue stores were all accessible that I ventured into. I filed my first Department of Justice complaint in Chicago (successfully I might add.)
San Juan, Puerto Rico was surprisingly accessible. Not perfect, but curbcuts were more plentiful than I expected. All buses I encountered had lifts. Most tourist sites were accessible at least somewhat – parts of the rainforest were tough but I still was happy with what I could access. Some of the castle forts were only partly accessible. Most of the stores were accessible, but not all. There is an accessible beach with a boardwalk into the water and water chairs available. I expected to encounter far more problems than I did.I strongly suggest you rent an accessible vehicle and see the whole island. The access isn’t great, but the people are really helpful. I really want to go back!
St Louis, MO was a nightmare. I didn’t feel like they had heard about the ADA yet. I found myself taking a lot of time looking for accessible entrances to get inside places and sometimes none were to be found.
Springfield, IL is not a tourist town, but it was a nice place to spend a few days and I found it very accessible. It has a few really interesting museums about Lincoln, that even a Canadian would find interesting.
Berkeley & San Francisco, CA are accessible to a point. There are a lot of hills and some are really difficult to manage in a chair. The buses are great and accessible. But sometimes getting to where you wanted to go from the bus was difficult. Most of the main tourist places are very accessible. A disappointment to me was that the trolley cars are not accessible.
That’s a start/
anywhere in the world if you want to ,equipment on your wheelchair a helicopter which has to be invented in the future period
Encinitas ca with moonlight beach on it.very wheelchair friendly w an amtrack to surrounding seas of north San diego
Very laid back here but fun
The Disney parks: CA-Disneyland, FL – Disney World are people friendly on all counts: wheelchair, restrooms, nearby hotels in range of prices, all kinds of food, accommodating staff.
I am a fan of city travel- when the are on flat land. (SF is lovely, but the hills can make things difficult.)
My solution is go someplace where there is a lot to do and see near hotels and restaurants. So, I do not try to see an entire city in one trip. Pick one area and focus on that. In NYC, there are theaters, museums, restaurants, and people watching packed densely enough for pedestrian travel.
NY is a city of villages: the southern tip of Manhattan has South Street Seaport- almost all is accessible.
DC fits this too.
Also, if you qualify for special public transportation in your home area, there may be a reciprocal arrangement with your destination area. It is worth checking into any privileges and associated costs. Most of these services allow an escort person to travel as a routine part of the service.
Cruise ships are waking up to the large population of people who need mobility devices. There is so much to do, you may not want to leave the ship until you return to the home port.
I personally found that Cuba and Jamaica to be rather wheelchair friendly. Specifically the Breezes Jibacoa in Cuba and the Starfish Trelawny Resort & Spa in Jamaica I found both to be mostly accessible and the parts that were not totally accessible the staff were extremely helpful in overcoming these glitches in accessibility.
I absolutely loved Atlantis in the Bahamas. They sent a wheelchair accessible van and came and got us at the airport. The airport staff was absolutely wonderful. I did have to basically wheel down the tarmac to get to the plane, but it was the best trip ever. Las Vegas is also very wheelchair friendly. We always got wheelchair accessible taxis if we needed to go somewhere further away. but most of it was within walking distance. NYC is ok too. You just have to find the correct subways to use and know where you are going. They also have a wheelchair accessible taxi program.
I go to London a lot and it’s totally accessible to most places, including disabled loos, low sinks, ramps to virtually every building (they usually have a portable one if there’s not a permanent one, so just ask), ramps on all the buses, low cashpoints, lots of lowered curbs and nice smooth pavements. The tube network is generally impossible to navigate in a chair, because of its age (oldest network in the world), but you can easily get around on buses – if you get a nice driver, they sometimes let you on for free
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