Tagged: travelers-with-disabilities

I Stayed At the World's Most Accessible Hotel. Here's What It Was Like

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 26% of all Americans have some form of disability, and 13.7% of the population lives with mobility impairments. Yet under the Americans…

High-Tech Lenses Let Color-Blind Travelers See Art and Nature in Full Color

Updated August 30, 2022 New England doesn’t hold the patent on fall foliage. Come autumn, many other regions in the U.S. burst into spectacular colors, even though those places don’t…

New Travel Grants to Help Wheelchair Users Take Their Dream Trips

On top of travel expenses such as airfare, hotel rooms, museum tickets, and those churros at Walt Disney World that sell for $6.39 apiece, people who use wheelchairs have a whole other…

How Travelers with Disabilities Can Get Special Equipment for Air Travel—for Free

For travelers who use wheelchairs, airplane seats can present a special challenge—in getting into them and getting out of them, as well as maintaining a secure position during…

California Improving Coastal Access with New Beach Wheelchairs

Eighteen coastal sites in California—from Clam Beach, where Highway 101 meets the Pacific in northern Arcata, to lively Ocean Beach in San Diego—are getting new wheelchairs and other…

New App Helps Visually Impaired Travelers Navigate Airport

American Printing House for the Blind's "Nearby Explorer" app—a GPS-enabled mobile wayfinding service developed specifically for visually impaired users—has a brand-new feature to help…

Hotel Chain Brings Real-Time Sign Language Interpretation to Guests

Travelers who are deaf or hearing-impaired can now make use of a cool new free service at Room Mate Hotels, a Spain-based chain with 22 properties in cities around the world, including…

Underwater Titanic Tours, Virgin America Gets the Axe, and a Delayed Airline Rule: Today's Travel Briefing

MARCH 27, 2017 — Good morning, everybody! Here's the latest from the world's airlines and underwater submersibles. * ALASKA AIRLINES IS DOING AWAY WITH VIRGIN AMERICA (Los Angeles…

How to Pick the Best Cruise for You

With cruises, your choice of a ship can make or break the vacation. But many times that decision has as much to do with who you are as a person—and who you will be traveling with—as it…

Special Globe, A Superb New Website for Families with Children With Disabilities, Debuts

Travel was an important, and much beloved, part of Meghan Harris’ life growing up. Her father was a professor, and he used his sabbaticals to show his family the world.  Harris hoped…

Park of the Week: Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, St. Louis

Everyone knows which president's face is on the dollar bill, but George Washington has some competition now that the U.S. Mint has issued a one-dollar coin with the visage of Ulysses…

What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Norway

Oslo One of Norway's largest hotel chains, Thon Hotels, has opened its first budget hotel, Thon Hotel Gardermoen (Balder Allè 22; tel. 64-00-45-00; www.thonhotels.com/gardermoen),…

24 Hours at the Cheapest Four Seasons in the World

I really did have only one night in Bangkok. We arrived in the city around noon, after a two-hour taxi ride from the port of Laem Chabang, where we just wrapped up a cruise to Vietnam…