5 Useful Resources for Disabled Travel
May 17, 2010 by Aaron
Filed under Travel/Recreation
Our tip for the day is on accessible travel. To that end, we’ve put together a list of sites – both new and old – on disabled travel that we think are definitely useful.
Ability Trip
One of my favorite emerging disabled travel sites, Ability Trip was founded by a husband a wife team looking to provide a lot of disabled travel information from their own personal experiences. The site is organized by region with more tips and areas being added all the time. We found the layout and the thorough, travel guide style place descriptions to be very well done. If you’re planning a trip, make Ability Trip one of your first stops.
Disabled Travelers Blog
I love reading travel blogs – they serve as a way to experience travel through someone else’s eyes. The Disabled Travelers Blog captures the accessible travel experience. They’ve been adding content since 2007, so there’s a good amount of information that you can sort through – and it can be a fun read even if you’re not planning a trip.
Access Travel Center
The Access Travel Center is a large collection of links of accessible travel. Organized in categories such as van rentals, cruises, discounts, airlines, and hotels, this site offers a wealth of collected information of disabled travel and wheelchair travel.
The Accessible Travel Guide
If you’re looking to travel in the US, The Accessible Travel Guide might have some information for you. Although we didn’t find initial site navigation to be very intuitive, once we made our way to the “find” section we saw destinations arranged by US state. This made finding destinations easy, and the simple grading system attached to each location was a fun change from the typical travel review.
Disaboom
If you’re disabled, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Disaboom. Launched less than 2 years ago, Disaboom has quickly become a resource for nearly every type of disability. While it’s not always easy to find exactly what you’re looking for, the vast collection of articles here means that eventually you’ll find some really useful, relevant information. Disaboom Accessible Travel.
One more resource…
You! – what about you? Do you have any tips or resources that you’ve discovered in your own travels or on the internet? Share them – we’d love to hear from you!
I’d like to present http://rollsquare.com/ , a website where users can add their accessible places, and also use the mobile web application to easily locate them when on destination. We start covering Rome, London, Barcelona, but our goal is to increase the cities list as soon as we’ll receive your contributes.
Wonderful post… Very informative and helpful for the disabled travelers. Thank you for sharing this.
Disabled people are also fond of travelling like other individuals. But for them planning vacations might prove to be as difficult as herding cats. These are some important tips that individuals with physical handicaps can take care to make travelling an enjoyable experience for themselves.
http://www.airticket.co.uk/travel-articles/travelling-guide-for-the-disabled.aspx