I don’t understand hotel handicap rooms. A handicap room, more often than not, involves an elevator. Okay, a room upstairs. Usually located down two long corridors. At the last possible room. Next to the fire escape stairs. This choice to install handicap rooms near a fire escape baffles me. Maybe if they installed a slide too it would make sense. I guess a handicapped person could roll their body down the steps in case of a fire. And can you imagine the poor firefighter who has to carry you down these steps or a ladder? I requested handicap accommodations before my knee surgeries and experienced the inconvenience of said rooms. Some Hotels still have me on a handicap room list. Which someday, unfortunately, I will need again due to hip issues. So, I sympathize with those who need a handicap room. The exhaustion of using a walker or cane to get to these rooms can be so overwhelming. Plus, a wheelchair rarely fits the space deficient handicap room. (An ample bathroom without a swing out glass door or a tub to crawl over would be nice). My recommendation is to request a ground floor room and ask questions about that rooms accommodations. Because Handicap Accessible isn’t always the best choice.
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