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13 Amenities for Under $1300 Total that can Make Any Sleeping Room or Bathroom Accessible

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Accessibility doesn’t always mean complicated, time consuming, or expensive. Hotel rooms can be made more comfortable for guests with disabilities using simple, off-the-shelf (meaning mostly Amazon) pieces of equipment. For a surprisingly small investment any hotel can make a huge difference in comfort and satisfaction for their guests. Here are 13 basic items that an accessible tour operator keeps in his trailer to make any hotel sleeping room or bathroom accessible for his clients.

Our Takeaway: Starting at under $50, the whole kit and caboodle can be purchased for less than $1300 on Amazon.

Movers and Shakers Turn out for the Grand Opening of the first 100% All Accessible Room Hotel in the World

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photo of Charles Hammerman at the opening of the Schoolhouse Hotel. He is wearing a brown grey polo shirt and holding a microphone

The Schoolhouse Hotel is revolutionary in the realm of accessible hotels. This vacation destination in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, has become the world’s first fully beyond ADA-compliant hotel, ensuring comfortable stays for neurodivergent individuals as well as those with mobility issues, blindness, and deafness. The Schoolhouse Hotel is focused on accessibility for everyone from the moment a guest books a room through its website, all the way through check-out. Learn more about their model and why they’re being celebrated here.

Our Takeaway: The Schoolhouse Hotel serves as a veritable showroom of innovations, products, and technology that makes every room accessible for a wide range of disabilities. Hotel developers should be making pilgrimages to see what’s next.

Why 80% of Shower Set-ups in Hotel Bathrooms are Inaccessible to Wheelchair Users?

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photo of John Morris a triple amputee sitting in an airline seat wearing a blue blazer an open collared blue shirt

WheelchairTravel.org founder John Morris has assessed hundreds of accessible hotel rooms, and he reports that ADA compliance is “rare” – particularly in the bathroom. Whose fault is it that many as 80% could be off-limits to disabled hotel guests? Hoteliers, who find themselves in the unfortunate position of being in the middle of architects, contractors and regulators, get 100% of the blame for compliance issues. 

Our Takeaway: With this unfortunate system of blame dumping, it’s a good thing that there are still ways to recognize the lack of, and work toward helping.

Uncover the root of the issue and what can be done about it here.