Ronda, Andalucia, improving accessibility for disabled visitors

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Here's some positive news regarding one of the oldest cities in Spain.


The town of Ronda, Andalucia has launched a series of initiatives to help improve accessibility for disabled visitors.


The figures speak for themselves, as there are more than 600 million people in the world with some kind of disability.


Ronda intends to attract such visitors, and plans include designing a tourist route in the old town, adapted for the disabled, with a budget of more than 300,000 euros. The route will include bronze reproductions of the town's main monuments with Braille for the blind. There will also be a Braille map of Ronda.


For the deaf, there will be a system which will allow them to download a video about the monument on their mobile phone via wi-fi with an explanation in sign language. There will also be a tourist guide indicating which services are available and the tourist information office will be in a more accessible area.
(News Source: www.euroweeklynews.com)

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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

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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.