goofieslonglostsis
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Wel, the title already spills the beans more or less; I want to know all you guys can tell me about doing NY with a powerchair.
I'm poundering about perhaps adding a couple of days at NY before heading down to WDW in september 2009. I'll have to transfer flights somewhere anyway, have NY on my shortlist of 'want to see one day' so I figured; why not turn the transfer into a stopover? First of all; I'm not too worried about too major accessibility problems. Heck, I live in Europe where we got things arranged greatly for work and home but public life is still trying to catch up. If I can do southern Europe with it's no cut curbs and inaccessible architecture, no big apple is going to be too big of a pain in the rear.
I'm not new to having to find out all basic things allover again for a new destination but nothings beats hearing others experiences so this is where the DIS (amongst others) come into place. I'll probably be doing NY solo. The friend that is coming along for the WDW-DCL part most likely wont want to do this part, which is ok with me.
I'm used to solo travel so that does make it easier.
I'm looking for experience about more or less anything NY. Accessible transportation to and from the airports, tips about must does and sees, tips about what hotel you found to be doable with a powerchair while not breaking the bank (which is relative of course for such a city), anything and all!
I think the most 'difficult' question I have to figure out is getting to and from the airport. I tend to travel with, wel, ehm, an enormous amount of stuff. It's me in the powerchair, but then. Lug along the manual chair (for 'just in case' and usage at home airport where they are a big pain in the rear with the need to check in the powerchair hours before boarding and not getting it back untill bagageclaim) to the hotel and back to airport when leaving again. Of course one nice suitcase of clothes and stuff. Than another purely with medical stuff in it (good, because empty after trip and filled with souvies
). A basic carry on for the stuff needed during the flight. Than a second carry on with purely medication and a third with the charger and other stuff for both the chairs. A bit of a lot of stuff. Really a lot if you consider the fact that I shouldn't be carrying anything.
Anyhow, I can manage getting all of this around an airport, without any lifting or making movements I shouldn't. I've got a God given talent, I think.
But that still leaves the transportation. I know it is too much aked of myself to do this same stunt when using public transportation like a bus. Which leaves me very interested in the stories of how others did this when visiting NY?
I'm poundering about perhaps adding a couple of days at NY before heading down to WDW in september 2009. I'll have to transfer flights somewhere anyway, have NY on my shortlist of 'want to see one day' so I figured; why not turn the transfer into a stopover? First of all; I'm not too worried about too major accessibility problems. Heck, I live in Europe where we got things arranged greatly for work and home but public life is still trying to catch up. If I can do southern Europe with it's no cut curbs and inaccessible architecture, no big apple is going to be too big of a pain in the rear.
I'm not new to having to find out all basic things allover again for a new destination but nothings beats hearing others experiences so this is where the DIS (amongst others) come into place. I'll probably be doing NY solo. The friend that is coming along for the WDW-DCL part most likely wont want to do this part, which is ok with me.

I'm looking for experience about more or less anything NY. Accessible transportation to and from the airports, tips about must does and sees, tips about what hotel you found to be doable with a powerchair while not breaking the bank (which is relative of course for such a city), anything and all!
I think the most 'difficult' question I have to figure out is getting to and from the airport. I tend to travel with, wel, ehm, an enormous amount of stuff. It's me in the powerchair, but then. Lug along the manual chair (for 'just in case' and usage at home airport where they are a big pain in the rear with the need to check in the powerchair hours before boarding and not getting it back untill bagageclaim) to the hotel and back to airport when leaving again. Of course one nice suitcase of clothes and stuff. Than another purely with medical stuff in it (good, because empty after trip and filled with souvies


Anyhow, I can manage getting all of this around an airport, without any lifting or making movements I shouldn't. I've got a God given talent, I think.
