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I've been doing a lot of traveling lately. Every time I rented a hotel room, I asked for a handicap room. I know I have mobility issues, and it would be nice to have little amenities like shower bars and extra space.

Every time I've asked for a handicap room, I've been told the same thing--all handicap rooms have a single king bed, not a pair of doubles. One hotel also added their handicap rooms were on the second floor, and the didn't have an elevator.

Are gimps like me not allowed to travel with children? I feel like I must have missed something in the handbook.

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Date: 2009-11-30 03:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com
also usdoj has an ada division, not only for the insane people who put their h/c rooms on the 2nd floor w/o elevator (the fsck?) but probably as well for the only a king bed people.

double doubles started phasing out when hotels realized that folk on business were often sharing rooms as long as there were two beds. My grandmother was a travel agent and noticed this perhaps 15 years or so ago.

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Date: 2009-11-30 04:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jsbowden.livejournal.com
Two queen sized beds won't leave room to move around in a wheelchair, and the hotels use a normal sized room for their h/c rooms. If you need more beds, you can book the adjacent interconnected room.

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Date: 2009-11-30 06:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magickcat.livejournal.com
Umm, I was just in a hotel, in a handicapped room with 2 beds and while I don't have a wheelchair, there definitely was room for one. It wouldn't have been super-spacious, but definitely enough room... and the bathroom was about 4x the size of my bathroom at home. I kind of wanted to sing and check out the acoustics. ;)

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Date: 2009-11-30 05:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jsbowden.livejournal.com
We were in a handicapped room over the weekend, and it was a standard sized hotel room (the footprint of the room was identical to every other room) that sacrificed the closet (it had a free standing wardrobe instead) and part of the living space to enlarge the bathroom, and only had a single king in it. Two queens would have made the room difficult to navigate for normal ambulatory people, much less those in a wheelchair. I didn't like the room much compared to the rooms we normally stay in (this is near my wife's parents and is the hotel we use when traveling there), and I suspect we were in it because all the other non H/C rooms with a single king were already filled. Generally I can't complain with Marriott's rooms, and I understand why that room is laid out like that, but we'll make a point to request non H/C rooms in the future.

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Date: 2009-11-30 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magickcat.livejournal.com
Ugh, that sucks. It was actually a Marriott that I was in a couple of weeks ago~ hopefully you can get better accommodations next time!

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Date: 2009-11-30 05:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jsbowden.livejournal.com
The room would have been phenomenally easy for a wheelchair bound person to access every part of though. Like I said, I didn't like the layout because I prefer the common space and the closets. I'm sure I'd have a very different perspective if I were non-ambulatory.

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Date: 2009-11-30 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magickcat.livejournal.com
That makes sense.
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