Rooms and booking
Travellers · 1 thread
Roll-in showers that were really a step, and the questions that catch a place out before you pay.
The word accessible means almost nothing on a booking page, and this section is where readers pin down what it actually meant once they arrived. Threads here trade photographs of bathroom doorways, measurements of bed heights, and the exact wording that got a straight answer out of a hotel before any money changed hands.
| Thread | Replies | Last post |
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| Hotel keeps insisting the room is wheelchair accessible but WON'T send me the bathroom door width, is that a red flag? started by Derek C., Feb 9, 2026 | 5 | Derek C. Feb 18, 2026 |
The questions that save a trip
The pattern across these threads is that the best-planned stays came from asking narrow, specific questions rather than the word accessible. How wide is the bathroom door in centimetres. Is the shower level with the floor or is there a lip. Can you send a photograph of the room. A vague reply is itself an answer, and the readers who learned to read that silence saved themselves a good deal of grief.
The checklist that regulars paste into these threads lives in full in the questions to ask before booking, and the wider picture of what separates a genuinely accessible room from a hopeful listing is in accessible accommodation. What suits your own transfers and equipment is yours to judge, so treat these as questions to ask, not verdicts to copy.
If you have just booked somewhere and want a second pair of eyes on the reply you got, post it here before you pay the balance. Several people have caught a step this way with days to spare.