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my big gripe with a lot of disabled facilites is that the toilet often doubles as afamiliy bathroom. (especially on Haven sites).  This means when families are getting the kids ready to go out to the clubs on a night you often can't get access for 2-3 hours.

Having said that Grange over sands Haven site was good. They had seperate facilities. Paths were plat and reasonably maintained. There were disabled parking spaces next to the complex entrances and plenty of ramps to gain access

Most of the caravan club's disabled facilities are excellent, and even have a panic cord alarm to the reception should a mishap occur. I am disabled myself, and whilst I do use our onboard facilities a lot, as mine is more of a walking and breathless problem, and I can stand for a couple of mins at a time, I do use the caravan clubs facilities, and the Disabled pitches ajacent to them, whenever we visit one of their sites.

One thing that annoys me on some sites through, Caravan club included, is when they install speed ramps the full width of the roadways around the site, and the only option to get past them on my mobility scooter is to either drive onto the front of someones pitch, or  around them into what is often fairly deep hardstanding gravel, or risk a 'grounding' and damage to my scooter trying to get over these. By all means install speed ramps for safety's sake, but either leave a gap so that wheelchairs and disability scooters can pass safely through the centre of these, or provide a hard surface by-pass path around the sides of them. One of the worst offenders is the CC Sandringham site, where a dirty great speed ramp has been installed between the Disabled pitch spaces, and the Disabled bathroom in the main toilet block, GRRR! 

Sorry for hijacking this thread a bit, but this really does annoy me, and hence for the first season since we have started Caravanning again 4 years ago, we will not be visiting Sandringham, especailly as the prices for that site have been hiked up so much.

Julia   

The main problem with using a family bathroom Tony is that most do not have enough grab rails in the appropiate places for some of us Disabled campers to use them, and a plastic patio chair on a slippery floor is just not good enough, especially for us larger framed people who need something a bit stronger and more sturdy.

Julia

Quote: Originally posted by romany girl on 11/3/2013

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The main problem with using a family bathroom Tony is that most do not have enough grab rails in the appropiate places for some of us Disabled campers to use them, and a plastic patio chair on a slippery floor is just not good enough, especially for us larger framed people who need something a bit stronger and more sturdy.

Julia

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