Travel Disclaimer

Everything on Disability Holidays Guide is here for general information and to help you understand the ground before you travel. It is not individual advice at any point, and it cannot stand in for the specific guidance a clinician, an airline, or an access provider gives you for your own trip.

The rules and the provision change, and vary

Passenger rights, assistance schemes, parking recognition, entry rules for assistance dogs, the meaning a hotel puts on the word accessible: all of it shifts over time and differs from one country, airline, and provider to the next. What was true when I wrote a guide may have moved since, and what holds in one place may not hold in the next. Whatever matters to your journey, confirm the current position directly with the airline, the hotel, or the authority that sets the rule before you rely on it.

My experience is mine, not a plan for you

Most of this site is the record of my own travels as a wheelchair user. No two disabilities, bodies, or trips are the same. An airport that handled my chair well may handle yours differently, and a room that suited me may not suit you. Read my account as company and as a realistic sense of what may lie ahead, not as instructions or a promise of how your own trip will go.

Medical needs are for your own clinicians

When I write about flying with oxygen, travelling with medication, or arranging dialysis away from base, it is so the practical side makes sense to you, not so you have a programme to follow. Whether any of it is safe for you, and how to manage it, is for the professionals who know your condition and your history. Their instructions come ahead of anything I have written.

Reading my site does not put you in anyone’s care

Visiting these pages, or sending me a message, sets up no professional relationship. The occupational therapist who reviews my guides for general accuracy plays no part in your care and is in no position to advise on your particular situation.

On accuracy and links to other sites

I make a fair effort to keep what I write accurate and current, though I cannot promise it is complete or a fit for your circumstances, and whatever you take from it you take at your own risk. The sites I link out to are there for convenience and further reading. What they publish, and how up to date it is, is their concern, not mine.

Always confirm the specifics

Before you book, and before you travel, check the details that matter with the people who can be held to them: the airline for assistance and equipment, the accommodation for genuine step-free access, your insurer for cover, and your own clinical team for anything touching your health.