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Has a hotel ever refused your lithium wheelchair?
There’s a story going around about a hotel in Australia refusing to let a guest bring her lithium-powered wheelchair into her room, citing fire risk. They stored it in an outside shed overnight.
Has anyone here run into this at a hotel? Airlines have clear rules for lithium chairs, but hotels seem to make it up as they go. Curious whether this is…
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Reasonable Accommodations and How Much Gratitude is Too Much?
Disabled people are conditioned to be thankful for equal access, but should this be the case? Is thanksgiving warranted?
Traveling with a companion - what's the hardest part to coordinate?
Planning a trip with a travel companion adds a whole layer of logistics that doesn’t come up much. Things like who pushes the chair vs. who handles the luggage, how you split up tasks at the airport, or figuring out hotel rooms that work for two people when one needs specific accessibility features.
And then there’s the money side – if…
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Whenever I travel with a companion, I always pay for their airfare, accommodation and food and drink, as they are an essential part of my ability to travel (I’m a wheelchair user who likes to be as independent as possible, but I know I can’t do everything myself, sadly 😥)
Ever booked an "accessible" room that wasn't?
This seems to keep coming up — you book through a major platform, confirm the room, and then arrive to find a tub instead of a roll-in shower, or a “wheelchair accessible” room with a step at the door. What happened, and how did you handle it?
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I try to book through the hotel chain’s official website as much as possible.
One of the few times the room wasn’t what I reserved was at the EXCALIBUR in Las Vegas. The bed’s box spring hadn’t been removed as requested and the shower had a step. I immediately went downstairs to the front desk. The security guard directed me ahead of everyone…
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Autonomous Taxis and Accessibility Discussion
When the talk of autonomous vehicles started, they frequently mentioned accessibility and freedom for those who couldn’t operate their own vehicle or get in regular taxis.
However, things aren’t shaping up that way in many places. What are your thoughts? What are the rules and prototypes like in your country?
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Autonomous Taxis Won't Be Accessible With Laws Like These
State laws that preempted local rideshare regulation are now being used to shield autonomous taxis from wheelchair accessibility mandates.
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A friend of mine just bought a self driving car. I was also thinking about how this could help with accessibility – I am partially ambulatory but operating the pedals is getting increasingly difficult for me. The rules here are such that there must be a person sitting in the driver’s seat so I think it’s a long way from providing full access…
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I think governments should have these be in paratransit fleets on a widespread level, because the cost barrier for disabled people is very high for these
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