About The Disabled Traveler

The Disabled Traveler covers travel access-first: what is genuinely step- free, what is advertised as accessible and is not, and which question to ask before you book. Access information elsewhere is usually a single icon, and a single icon is not enough to plan a trip on.

Access is described in specifics rather than labels - the number of steps, the door width, whether the lift reaches the platform, whether the accessible room is the one with the bath. Where we have not verified something, the page says it is unverified rather than repeating the operator’s claim.

Facts come from primary sources. Access claims are checked against the operator, the venue and, where they exist, national accessibility registers - and the date of checking is stated, because lifts break and stay broken. Anything numeric carries the date it was checked, because a price without a date is not information. Geographic data comes from GeoNames and OpenStreetMap, photographs from Wikimedia Commons under their individual Creative Commons licences, and time zone data from the IANA database.

We do not accept payment for a placement, a ranking or a favourable review. Where a link earns a commission, the page carrying it says so. We do not claim to have tested something we have not: plan details and prices that come from a provider rather than from our own checking are labelled as such. And we do not publish a page to fill a gap in a keyword list.

If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say that we did. Email [email protected] with the page and what is inaccurate. Corrections to a specific fact are made on the page, and the update date on the page changes with them.