Elements of an accessible hotel room
It takes more than a roll-in shower to make a hotel room accessible
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For those of you without mobility issues, you may not know that there is a thing called an “accessible” hotel room. Recently returning from Quito from my first solo business trip outside of North America in a while reminded me that every “accessible” hotel room I’ve stayed in over the past year has been completely different. Since there is no standard and every hotel chain seems to be all over the place (even within their own chain) I thought I would call out from the customer’s perspective what features a fully accessible hotel room *should* have.
Accessible means accessible to everyone. There aren’t special rooms for specifically for people with hearing loss, vision loss or people who use wheelchairs. There is only a limited number of accessible hotel rooms in any given hotel, and they have to work for all disabilities.
