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Scope community members @emilyroseyates and @Mik_Scarlet are talking about accessibility and travel in the independent sharing their favourite holiday destinations.
Emily chose Barcelona, Singapore and Berlin while Mik loves Cardiff.

From the Independent: “Holidays and adventures mostly require good planning and preparation to ensure that our flights, accommodation and activity providers are aware of our additional requirements and that we ourselves have everything we might need for the journey ahead,” says Yates, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at a young age and is a full-time wheelchair user.
Emily chose Barcelona, Singapore and Berlin while Mik loves Cardiff.
From the Independent: “Holidays and adventures mostly require good planning and preparation to ensure that our flights, accommodation and activity providers are aware of our additional requirements and that we ourselves have everything we might need for the journey ahead,” says Yates, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at a young age and is a full-time wheelchair user.
But, she adds, “As frustrating as it can be to know that just booking a flight and jetting off without a care in the world probably isn't the best of ideas, advice and suggestions from other people in similar situations can be really helpful.”
So what are your favourite holiday destinations and what advice and suggestions would you give to others?
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It was really tough and it made me realise how many barriers there are in place for physically disabled people.
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They stayed home and planned to do something nice for themselves each day, perhaps that is something you could think about?
You have spoken about your disability before and I can see it is really tough for you, there are so many different disabilities and each person faces their own personal challenges. I hope you can find a way to live happily with yours.
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http://www.misophonia-uk.org/dealing-with-misophonia.html
Have you tried noise cancelling headphones?
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I highlighted that wheelchair users using their dedicated online wheelchair booking tool are only able to book 120 days ahead and not the recently introduced 280 days ahead that is now available to able travelers.
I was told that they will now look into this..
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I am fortunately still able to drive myself.
What we did as a family of 4, was to drive from Market Rasen to Canterbury and stay the night in the Premier Inn. Excellent disability rooms. Next day, get the train through the tunnel and then drive to Ostend. We booked a flat on the seafront with a lift. Did the same coming back. Stayed in Ostend for 7 days. We had a lovely time. Excellent food and drink and so much to see, along that coast as well as places like Bruges and Ypres in France. Even went across the border into the Netherlands.
Thoroughly recommended and something you can so easily organise yourself. We even used Tesco vouchers to pay for the Eurotunnel and for meals whilst in Canterbury. :-)
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http://www.disabledholidays.com/search/europe-l27/spain-l38/costa-blanca-l145/benidorm-l189/
It may help you to find somewhere suitable, and you don't have to book with them just use them to find hotels.
It might be worth a look round at your local ones?
From the experiences on this community, it seems that accessible holidays cost so much more and that is really unfair
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I see exactly what you mean. I hadn't selected the information button. They are dead crafty and I don't like that sort of thing. My apologies about that. I am going to try and get in touch with them and see what hotels they mention and see what I come up with. They won't be getting a penny out of me :-)
They said the area around was flat, etc. The Hotel itself had wide lifts. They have a adapted rooms, with Wet Rooms etc, so sounds perfect.
The Travel company said that they arrange everything, including the support needed to get people on board etc. So it is a bespoke holiday rather than a package holiday. There are so many airports in the Uk that you can fly from. They will also arrange the hire of things like hoists etc, but that is an extra cost.
So a breakdown of one weeks holiday for high season, being school summer holidays is around £4300 for 4 people, 2 rooms, one of them adapted, including flights and private adapted transport to and from the hotel. They will arrange with the flight company for assistance at the airports and getting on and off the plane. Half board.
Personally, if they did all of that, then £2400 for 2 people in an adapted room, with all the above, would seem to me, to be not that bad.
In June/July it would cost around £1800 for 2 in adapted room.
From what they told me, it is the best hotel for dealing with people with more severe disabilities.
Anyway, this is the hotel. It is called Hotel Helios, Benidorm. which is an accessible beach hotel. http://www.hoteleshelios.com/en/home/helios-benidorm/services-costa-blanca/
So you could look and see if it would be any cheaper doing it yourself.
Trip Advisor says https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g187525-d264419-Reviews-Hotel_Helios_Benidorm-Benidorm_Costa_Blanca_Province_of_Alicante_Valencian_Country.html
Is that any help,@nanof6 ?