Worried about adapted facilities when you rent a holiday home?

  

Then look no further, deep in the Andalucian countryside, El Reguelo a semi-detached holiday home is available to rent with adapted facilities for wheelchair users.

The house has private garden, patio, roof terrace and dip pool.
Sleeps from 2-6 people with the option of a folding bed or cot if required.

This area is very peaceful, Casa Rural El Reguelo is situated on a quiet country road between Fuensanta de Martos and Castillo de Locubin, there are no bars or shops here!

Peace reigns along with bird song, cockerel calls, croaking frogs and roaming goats.


• The ground floor with the double bedroom and en-suite wheelchair adapted shower-room,
a standard wheelchair of 60cm will enter the bathroom door entrance.


• No ramp needed to the patio and dip pool –
there is no access chair for the pool, just standard steps.


• There is a step at the front door, for which we have portable ramp


• Kitchen has worktops are 91 cm high and the space between them is 95cm.


• The garden has too many steps to get a wheelchair down to it.

For more information:


Contact Rachel or Nick Webb on (0034) 953 564211
or use the form on the link below
http://www.andalucia-for-holidays.com/Casa-Rural-El-Reguelo.html

Casa Rural El Reguelo
23610 Fuensanta de Martos
Jaen
Andalucia
Spain

GOOGLE MAPS
http://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es&q=El+Reguelo+andalucia&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=El+Reguelo,+Fuensanta+de+Martos,+Ja%C3%A9n,+Andaluc%C3%ADa&ll=37.617215,-3.917177&spn=0.510168,0.917358&t=h&z=10

Disclaimer: I have no financial interest in Casa Rural El Reguelo, nor have I personally visited this venue. Specialneedsandalucia always recommends that you make full enquiries regarding facilities and prices beforehand.

Finally I've found one !

Wide side walks, perfect for wheel users, on right is a bicycle lane

Hoist chair
Midday view from Pool Area

Yes an adapted hotel which provides true accessibility for wheelchair users here on the Costa del Sol, in the wonderful town of Fuengirola. Hotel Confortel offers ramps, lifts, adapted bedrooms, adapted bath rooms with wheel-in-showers, lowered sink units, swimming pool with a hoist, shaded area next to the pool plus an accessible toilet.

Fuengirola also offers an adapted beach approx. 10 mins. walk/push from the hotel Confortel. 164 new wheel user ramps in the town to help with accessibility.

Hotel Confortel, Fuengirola, Spain

Tel.: +34 952 92 10 00

Fax.: +34 952 92 10 01

http://www.confortelhoteles.com/en/hotels-in-malaga/hotel-confortel-fuengirola.html

At the bottom of the page there's an interactive map

Information and Reservations: 902 42 42 42

TWO vital COMPONENTS

I’ve been asked to find a selection of adapted hotels for a special needs UK group wishing to visit in 2010. This will be for 2 wheel chair users, 4 walkers with slight mobility difficulties and their carers. Initially I thought, yes no problem, I’ll “google” it.

I found a couple of what I thought perfect hotels in Benalmadena. By coincidence I happened to be in that area so I took the opportunity to see at first hand what was on offer.

Why oh why do hotels go to all the trouble of putting wonderful, non-slip, slightly graded user friendly ramps all over there hotel and then cannot provide one room that has an adapted wheel in shower? It just does not make sense to me. For any wheel chair user these two components in any hotel are absolutely vital and go hand in hand.

Stay tuned for a real report, I’ll be continuing my investigation with plenty more hotels in Benalmadena and Fuengirola and post up all my findings.

FUENGIROLA making life easier for WHEEL USERS

FUENGIROLA town hall aims to make life easier for people using wheels, whether it be delivery trolleys, pushchairs or wheelchairs.

This is part of the Plan for the Elimination of Architectural Barriers which is to be carried out by the town planning council.

This project will allow 164 spots that make access difficult for anyone using wheels to be removed and improved by making ramps. Out of the 164 planned, 27 have already been completed and the rest should be finished by the end of this year.
Super news, well done Fuengirola.
News Article from http://www.euroweeklynews.com/ 17-23/09/2009

Google SketchUp7 in Spanish, plus Project Spectrum

Excellent news ........................

Google SketchUp 7 (free and Pro) is now available in French, Italian, German and Spanish .

Project Spectrum - Strengths of autism shine through in 3D
Project Spectrum was created to give people with autism the opportunity to express their creativity and develop a life skill using Google SketchUp 3D modeling software.

THE QUEST TO INCREASE PUBLIC MOBILITY

Approved Decree:

From 2019 all buildings of more than two storeys must have lifts

I recently picked up this news from our local press www.surinenglish.com and http://www.diariosur.es the original article was written by Antonio Montilla.

The Andalusian government this week approved a decree declaring that from 2019 all buildings of more than two floors in the region must install lifts. Micaela Navarro, head of the Equality department explained that the new regulations are not only a matter of modernising architecture in the region, but also of wiping from the public conscience long-held prejudices about the way disabled people live.

Breaching the decree would incur fines of up to 300,000 euros. The mandate seeks to benefit not only people with disabilities, but also older citizens, pregnant women and people with restricted mobility, amongst others, which implicates around 40% of the population of Andalucia.

Navarro commented that the decree marks a new era in the quest to increase public mobility, and that it attempts to adapt the environment to its citizens, and not the reverse scenario. In addition, open air spaces with a recreational, educational or cultural capacity must also provide alternative accessible routes for those with reduced mobility.

The regions’s beaches are included within this requirement, and must provide amphibious chairs or similar technical aids wherever beach rescue teams are found. As regards public transport, each bus company will have to provide 10-15% more accessible buses with respect to fleets of ten or more vehicles.
Tourist accommodation will also have to increase the proportion of accessible rooms.

It is wonderful news and truly brings joy to my heart, for many sufferers it has been long overdue, but let us all agree this is finally a positive step in the right direction.

Charity Gala at Aloha Golf - July 4, 2009

What's happening ...... This Saturday we are raising funds for the local Autistic Association www.autismoaar.org

Date: Saturday, July 4, 2009
Time: 21:30 hrs.
Place: Restaurant of Aloha Golf Club (exterior open terrace)
Tickets: 100€ per person (Charity event)
Extras: There will be live music from Punta Negra, Beautiful food. raffles, prizes and lots more fun.