East Dorset and New Forest Branch
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Hotel Acorn Pionero, Santa Ponsa, Majorca
This hotel is located a few minutes from the beach, shops, bars and restaurants. It has adapted rooms available. The rooms are quite spacious and have wheelchair access. The restaurant is easily accessible. The adaptations to the bathroom are a stand in shower with a seat and handrail, there are handrails for the toilet. The outside pool has easy access but there are no hoists by the pool. It has shared facilities with it’s sister hotels. There is ramped access to the reception area, which is quite steep. Details of the hotel can be found at http://www.hotelesglobales.com/cgi-vel/globales/index.pro?idi=0 and select the required hotel link under 'Accommodation'. The holiday was available in the Palmair 2005 Summer brochure. If this holiday is to be considered then please check with the Travel Agents special needs department for suitability.
Hotel Acorn Santa Lucia, Palma Nova, Majorca
This hotel overlooks the beach and is minutes away from shops, bars and restaurants. It has adapted rooms available. Access to this hotel is up a slight incline then straight into the reception area. Details of the hotel can be found at http://www.hotelesglobales.com/cgi-vel/globales/index.pro?idi=0 and select the required hotel link under 'Accommodation'.
This hotel and resort is absolutely ideal for disabled people. The hotel has 7 adapted rooms and if all of them are to the standard of the one we stayed in then they are all OK. The room was big enough for me to use and stay in my wheelchair. I could even get into the bathroom in it. The bathroom has grab rails for the toilet and shower area. The toilet was a bit low but a high seat can be hired if the need is there. The shower has a pull down seat and though the grab rails are not ideally positioned I managed OK. The shower is not a wheel in shower so there is a slight threshold to get your foot over. Scooters, wheelchairs and all sorts of aids can be hired from a shop in the hotel reception area. In fact there were that many scooters being used while we were there that it was hard to get a socket to use the battery charger. The food was OK and the restaurant and bars were all wheelchair accessible. There are disabled toilets on the ground floor in the reception area. The pool area was wheelchair accessible. All in all we had a pretty relaxing holiday there and will definitely go back again.
Gil and Betty Rice
If this holiday is to be considered then please check with the appropriate Travel Agents special needs department for suitability.
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Hotel
Bahia del Este, Cala Millor, Majorca
This hotel is located a few minutes from the beach, shops, bars and restaurants. It has adapted rooms available, which are on the ground floor. The adaptations to the bathroom are a shower with seat, handrails etc. The restaurant is on the 1st floor, which is accessed by a lift, which is large enough to take a wheelchair easily. There is ramped access to the reception area. Details of the hotel can be found at http://www.majorca-mallorca.co.uk/hotel_bahia_del_este.htm This fully inclusive holiday was available in the SAGA Summer brochure 2004. If this holiday is to be considered then please check with the Travel Agents special needs department for suitability.
Hotel
Helios, Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Spain
The Hotel Helios is located next to the promenade. The promenade is very flat and leads to the old town of Almunecar. The town has a big market but there are some slopes to the town. These are easily coped with using a scooter and not too difficult with a wheelchair, though the pusher may lose some weight! There is a bird garden and park, the bird garden is not suitable for wheelchairs except at ground level. There is a variety of shops in the town. There is a MacDonald’s next to the market area, which has a disabled toilet. The hotel has disabled rooms but with a bath/shower which may cause a slight problem for some. Scooters can be hired from Mobility Abroad at http://www.mobilityabroad.com/index3.html and are delivered to the hotel. To see more detail of the hotel visit http://www.heliosalmunecar.com/en/index.htm this site has photo albums, which show different aspects of the hotel. The hotel is available from SAGA on a full board package but not during the main season. If this holiday is to be considered then please check with the Travel Agents special needs department for suitability.
Promenade
Hotel, Minehead, Somerset
The Promenade Hotel offers holidays to people with disabilities and guests just keep coming back.
This
comfortable, welcoming hotel won Best Florally Decorated Hotel in Minehead. With
its unrivalled location you can enjoy picturesque views of the harbour and
coastline from the gardens and conservatory. There's also the delicious cuisine
to look forward to.
The Promenade Hotel has been sympathetically converted to category I status, and
offers a full range of amenities including fully accessible rooms, each with an
emergency call system and wheel-in shower, with fixed and manual hoists
available. Every room has colour televsion and tea & coffee making facilities.
You'll find there's lots to see and do, and the hotel runs its own special
excursions during the week such as trips to Exmoor using its specially adapted
minibus. More than enough to please everyone!
Details of the hotel can be found at www.somersetriviera.com/promenadehotel/index.asp If this holiday is to be considered then please check for suitability.
Maison des
Landes Hotel, Jersey, Channel Islands
The disabled, and their families, can enjoy a carefree and memorable holiday in Jersey at Maison Des Landes Hotel. The hotel caters for disabled guests and their families or escorts. The accommodation has been specially designed to meet the needs of the disabled. The hotel is situated 9 miles from St. Helier on the gorse and heather covered headland with panoramic views over St. Ouen’s Bay and the Atlantic. Details of the hotel can be found at http://mdl.2000net.com/ If this holiday is to be considered then please check for suitability.
Blagdon Farm
Country Holidays, Ashwater, Beaworthy, Devon
Blagdon Farm was designed from the outset to be disabled friendly especially
where accessibility is a priority and has succeeded having been awarded an
accessibility grading on all cottages of either 1 or 2 - the highest achievable.
The second objective was to create this within luxurious environment. This too
has succeeded, and Blagdon Farm has been awarded either a 4 or 5 star by the ETC
on all its cottages.
In addition to being recommended by many specialist organisations as a truly
accessible holiday complex, we have also been awarded an
Excellence Award under
the Tourism for All category in recognition of our excellence in providing
Holidays for ALL.
We hope that we may have the privilege of helping you enjoy your holiday too.
Details of all the cottages and facilities can be found at
www.blagdon-farm.co.uk .
If this
holiday is to be considered then please check for suitability.
Recommendation
I thought you would like to know about my holiday in Devon last year.
It is called Blagdon Farm in Beaworthy. The nearest town is Launceston, which is a good hour’s drive away, so it is way out in the country. There are lovely cottages of varying sizes all with balconies overlooking the lake. They are all very well furnished and wheelchair friendly. The ducks and chickens come every day to be fed.
It is self-catering but there is a small café where meals can be ordered and sent to your cottage or you can have a meal there.
They also cater for families and have a play area for the children.
I would recommend it to anybody for a very relaxing holiday.
Margaret Beach
January 2006
Disabled
Access Holidays, Puerto Pollensa, Majorca
7th September 2006 - We have just come back from a 2 week, self catering holiday in Puerto Pollensa, Majorca. We stayed in the 1st floor apartment in the apartment block in the picture above. Access was by lift and the lift took a normal size wheelchair with room to spare and I managed to get a scooter in there, but no spare room that time. The apartment was adapted for disabled people and is well equipped. The apartment is 2 minutes from the main square and also 2 minutes from the beach. For full details of the apartments available got to www.dah-europe.com
We arranged the holiday online, using Thomson airlines from Bournemouth and got travel Insurance from Free Spirit and we were able to arrange the flights and insurance online as well.
Puerto Pollensa is an absolute delight and is very flat, which is good for wheelchairs. The promenade is very long and goes into the ‘Pine Walk’ which is great. The beach is safe and the sea is warm, so my wife Betty told me. No access on to the beach for wheelchairs but with the pine trees there is a good deal of shade. Like all Spanish towns their idea of dropped kerbs isn’t too good and dropped kerbs may be one side of a pedestrian crossing but not the other side but you soon get used to that. There are many restaurants both in the square and along the promenade that supply wonderful meals, even for vegetarians like us!
It is a place we would certainly recommend and if you like self catering then the apartment is ideal.
Gil Rice.
The Russell Hotel, Weymouth
This hotel has been included on recommendation but as I've had no personal experience of it I emailed the hotel for more information
In reply to your recent email regarding The Russell Hotel list below is all the information needed for a potential
Group booking
- Parking at The Russell Hotel is limited we do have disabled parking spaces but these spaces can not be reserved and are on a first come basis
- Disabled access to the hotel is through the back entrance and The Russell hotel does have a lift from ground floor to the fourth floor
- The Restaurant and entertainment lounge has Wheelchair access
Accommodation at The Russell Hotel for wheelchair users has an en-suite walk in or wheelchair access shower with chair and grab rails, toilet seat is higher but no toilet
Seat raise can be provided but you can bring your own
We do only have one wheelchair access room on the ground floor
If you have any more queries please contact myself on 0845 450 4596
Claire Bebbington
Sales Advisor
Hollybush Hotels
If this holiday is to be considered then please check with Claire Bebbington on the above telephone number for availability and suitability.
The hotel is one of the Hollybush Hotels group and they have a website at:
Premier Inns
We had a holiday with ex RAF friends in N Ireland. As their accommodation wasn't suitable for us to stay in we had to find a suitable hotel. My friend did a bit of research and came up with a hotel in Belfast city centre. We checked it out of the Internet and found it was a Premier Inn. They are a chain of Inns nationwide so on their website they don't have photographs of their hotels. They do however have adapted rooms available and these rooms are the ones with a shower in. Having got to hotel we booked in and were pleasantly surprised at the efficient and friendly way we were dealt with. The room, all be it on the 8th floor, was huge so plenty of room for a wheelchair. The shower was in a wet room which was extremely well adapted with plenty of grab rails which were also well positioned. The bed was a bit low for me so we asked if we could have a higher bed and it was there almost immediately. The restaurant was fine and the breakfast was either a full English or a continental. We had Bed and Breakfast for the week. I can highly recommend the Premier Inns as a good place to stay in if you are visiting friends or family who can't accommodate you for whatever reason. To check for hotels in the area you are visiting then go to their website at www.premierinn.com As always ensure that the hotel fully accommodates your specific needs before booking.
We had a great time in N Ireland with our friends and revisited places where we'd lived and gone to while stationed there at RAF Ballykelly in the mid 1960s. We hadn't been there or seen our friends for over 40 years.
Gil Rice
