Hire of equipment for special needs passengers

Dear Linda,

My pleasure,

If I have some more interesting websites concerning accessibility for disabled persons, I will let you know, ok


Dear Annie,

Thank you so much for that information. It is so difficult to find information for passengers with special needs in Spain. I will include a link to this website in our next newsletter and it will certainly help me with the questions I get on the message board.

It's much appreciated.


Linda


Dear gary

Do you know the website www.accessiblebarcelona.com ?
This is a site, made by an english disabled person who has been living in Barcelona for several years and who set up his own website about advice, hire and other useful information for disabled people. Such as transport, guide tours, hire of wheelchairs, electrical scooters, accessible museums, hotels, restaurants etc.
I, myself, am a single disabled traveller and through him I will book an electrical scooter, the transfer from inside the airport hall. Because, this is often a difficult item for disabled people. You are at the arrival hall, but can't take all your luggage outside to eg a taxi, a bus etc. So, the small distance from the airport hall to outside may already be a problem for some wheelchairers.
Further, I must say that the last few years the assistance for disabled people from the airport to or even up to the airplane has improved a lot. I myself don't mind travelling alone, because you mostly can rely on the assistance services.
So in September I go to the Alicante airport (from there I'm picked up by a belgian organisation 'Zorgvakanties' (see 'http://www.zorgvakanties.be/)that provides all the necessary medical and other help you need. I will stay in Calpe for a week
In April 2008 I go to Barcelona for a week. I still don't know that airport, but I suppose the assistance service will be comparable to the one in Alicante or elsewere in Spain. So, I don't worry and see it as a real adventure

Yours sincerely
Annie Van Thienen - Belgium