Boardwalk Inn oversized disabled room?

[disdad70]

Does any one know if all disabled rooms at BWI are created equally. Family will be traveling with a wheelchair and I'm wondering if some rooms are "deeper" than others in order to better manuever the wheelchair within the room. Any room numbers or info that you can share would be appreciated.

 

[dclfun]

The accessible rooms at all the WDW resorts are exactly the same size as the non-accessible ones. The difference is in the bathroom and as the bathrooms are larger for the rooms with roll-in showers, this will take space away from the interior of the rest of the room.---Kathy

 

[POOHsie]

Agree with previous poster. In my experience the WDW handicap rooms contain only one king bed. That is because of needed maneuvering space for wheelchair/scooter, plus larger bathroom. This in turn limits sleeping capacity of the room to two only. If your party is 3-4 people, this would mean a second room is needed.

 

[dclfun]

Actually the accessible rooms at BWI have two queens- we stayed in one last year.----Kathy

 

[goofieslonglostsis]

Agree with Kathy, there are more than enough resorts and/or room types where king bed isn't the only set up.

Basic rule of thumb to always remember is that you can book x amount of people into Y type room, never mind it if you are disabled or not. And yep; said Y roombooking will then accomodate sleepingarrangements for X amount of people. Nobody has to sleep out in the doghouse with Pluto.

 

[Capt. Barbosa]

Beach Club has two queens in the HC rooms also, we stayed in one last April.

 

[Andrew Bichard]

The accessible rooms at all the WDW resorts are exactly the same size as the non-accessible ones.

Not true.

For a few years (before we bought into DVC), my wife & I always stayed in a handicap room at Boardwalk Inn (now we stay at Boardwalk Villas).

The handicap rooms we were always allocated were 'Garden View', close by the elevator lobby. Because the building 'bent at this point by 135 degrees, the corridor side af the room was almost double length of window wall. making a wedge shaped room.

The room was large enough to perform a figure of eight in a rented ECV without touching the beds or furniture.

Also the rooms (we stayed in same room different trips, but on different floors) had a great view of Illuminations the higher the floor the better (not first floor)

Andrew

 

[SueM in MN]

In general, the wheelchair accessible rooms are exactly the same size footprint as the non-accessible rooms; the space in the footprint is just arranged differently. This is true not just for Disney, but other places where I have stayed in fully accessible rooms. When they are bigger, it's often a turn in the building where they have a little more space.
There are outliers, like Andrew mentioned, but it's safer to assume the room will be the same size as all the other rooms in the resort. Especially since a resort may have a mix of sizes because of the design of the resort. Even with a room blocked ahead of time, there is no guarantee that the room that was blocked for you will be the exact room you get. If someone else who needed an accessible room arrives before you, they may get the room that was blocked for you and may get theirs.