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Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona, Spain
I travelled to Barcelona for a weekend a couple of months back and was pleasantly surprised how wheelchair friendly it is. The Metro is about 90% wheelchair accessible. Unfortunately some of the inaccessible stations are those that you change from one line to another so you may need to go a slightly longer route, check in advance. There is a map of the Metro that shows wheelchair accessible stations, there is a link to it in my blog. I am told by other people that the buses are also very wheelchair accessible too but I tend not to use them overseas preferring rail, underground, tram.
Being my first proper trip for some years I chose a hotel chain that I am very familiar with, Travelodge. (Different places on the interweb say Travelodge have either 4 or 6 hotels in Spain but I can find 5. 2 in Barcelona, 2 in Madrid and 1 in Valencia.)
The one I chose was in Fira, somewhere near that famous Barcelona football team that I can’t recall, my game is rugby union. 🙂 This is about an hours trip in to the city centre on the Metro. The other Travelodge is in the area of Barcelona’s beaches so has higher prices. The next time I go there I will probably stay in a ‘proper’ hotel as I now tend to book from the Accor website for foreign trips.
My main reason for this trip was to visit Barcelona zoo and I was not disappointed, it was very wheelchair accessible and you get a 75% discount on entry.
More details are in my blogs, https://www.weekender.blog/category/spain/
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