What's your favorite hotel chain for wheelchair access?

[BillSears]

I'm doing a solo driving trip to WDW next week and wanted to book a hotel room on my trip back. Currently I'm staying at the Jacksonville La Quinta on the way down but wanted to try a different hotel chain on the way back just to get a variety of experiences.

So do you wheelchair travelers have a hotel chain that you recommend? One that seems to have a consistent and good wheelchair access room?

 

[Michigan]

Staybridge Suites by Holiday Inn are wonderful. Nice roll in showers bathrooms with pocket doors. Lower fridge, sinks just plain great!

 

[shovan]

If someone has found a chain that is truly consistent with it's HA rooms, I would love to hear about it! We have not found any consistency in any of the different hotel chains that we've tried.

We have always had to call the specific hotel to find out exactly what they have. Even then we've been stuck in rooms that don't have a roll-in shower.

We have found that Comfort Inns seem to have more hotels with roll-in showers.

 

[Michigan]

We have stayed at several different Staybridge Suites and the room has been set up the same at everyone of them.

 

[BillSears]

I wanted to post a quick update.

La Quinta worked out great on the way down. The room had a huge bathroom with an easy access toilet and sink. The bathroom had a tub with lots of grab bars and a hand held shower head.

Courtyard by Marriott was also great on the way back. A big room with a slightly smaller, but still big, bathroom. The toilet and roll in shower were in their own room with the sink outside of it. The roll in shower had a fold down seat and a both a hand held shower head and a wall mounted shower head. The only problem was the common mistake of having the seat at one end of the shower and the water controls at the other end of the shower.

 

[pugdog]

We have stayed in several Country Inn Suites and all have been about the same for access. The only down side would be they use a prebuild ADA shower stall that might not work for everyone.

 

[SueOKW]

I totally trust Marriott.

 

[Michigan]

I totally trust Marriott.

We used to until I reserved 2 handicap rooms in just out of Chicago. My daughter's friend who also has spina bifida and is in a wheelchair and his family and my daughter, my mother and I all checked in for find out that they only had one room available and they had given the other room to someone that asked for a larger room.

Since my dd's friend can stand and walk bent over on all 4's they took the room the regular room.

Checked in which was a problem because they had the only curb cut drapped with ribbon for the ribbon cutting that was 3 days away and when I asked for a chair for the roll in shower was told that's what her wheelchair is for. Needless to say I got on the phone with the corporate office and they found a shower chair.

Two years ago for a family reunion my family booked rooms at the Residence Inn requesting 2 handicap rooms. One for my family and one for my cousin who had a stroke uses a wheelchair and can't lift his foot to get in a tub. Got to the hotel and there were no handicap rooms available. They sent my cousin to the Hampton Inn next door and paid for his room and they put us in a first floor penthouse suite so my girls could get in the room.
Getting in the bathroom was another issue.