by Bennett V

There are many factors that constitutes a disabled friendly villa. This article helps understand what is deemed suitable holiday accommodation for wheelchair users.

From a disabled persons perspective, there could be a number of obstacles facing the individual who may be wishing to travel with their family, partners or friends who as a group may be looking to book self-catering holiday rentals.

If you are a disabled person looking to travel on holiday, you need to establish whether the property you are planning on visiting is suitable for disabled people. This is never easy, but you need to ask the villa owners some key questions and seek some form of evidence that will satisfy your requirements.

Any property owners who can demonstrate with confidence that their property is suitable for disabled people and wheelchair users it will actual expose your property to a wider audience of renters, including elderly and infirm people. This in turn is likely to help successfully secure more holiday bookings for you as an owner.

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The information that a disabled person would find useful and typically is to include a description of the access and facilities in and around the property, which includes the following:

– Arriving & parking arrangements

– Access to the front of the property

– Access to side and /or rear entrance of the property

– Entrance and internal door widths

– Access to patio, pool and garden

– Details on access for wheelchair users in Bath /Shower Rooms

– Details on access for wheelchair users in W C’s

– Access to first floor via stair-lift

– Emergency Exits

Once there is a good understanding of the disabled holiday accommodation it would be a great idea to provide an overview for the visitor wishing to know about the local amenities and tourist attractions nearby and exactly what the transport arrangements would be for wheelchair users to travel to these place.

The more useful information that the property owner can provide for the visitor, then this will prove extremely useful to the visitor and equally rewarding for the owner in terms of securing additionl rental bookings.