A number of organisations help identify or run accommodation and offer travel advice which is suitable for people with a disability.  A list of some of these is below.

PLEASE NOTE:

Any information given here is not a recommendation and is only given as information.  All care should be taken to ensure that any holiday meets the needs of you or the person you care for before proceeding.

Find out more

• Access-Able Travel Source
  Information resource put together by a disabled traveller and her husband from America
  
  
• Allgohere (incorporating everybody.co.uk)
  Holidays, hotels and airlines all with helpful disability information and ratings where appropriate.

• Carers UK - Information about breaks and contact details for holiday accommodation, etc.
  
  
• Can be Done
  Offers a wide range of holidays, but specialises in original and pioneering wheelchair accessible holidays.

• Contact a Family
  This is a factsheet about holidays - funding, accommodation, equipment and travel insurance.

• Dementia Guest House Care  (Devon)
  Specialist holiday support for people with dementia.

• Disabled Holiday Directory
  Accessible holiday accommodation in UK, Ireland and America.  Also help with practical matters such as oxygen and dialysis.

• DISC Plus
  The holiday section offers holiday providers and information for disabled adults and children.
  
  
• Enable Holidays
  Offers a carefully selected, personally audited range of overseas holidays for disabled people, their families and friends.

• English Heritage
  Has a section on access to historic buildings and landscapes here.

• Foxes Academy Hotel, Minehead
  Tel: 01643 704450
  This is a training hotel for young people with mild learning difficulties.  It offers special occasions, short breaks, weekends as well as the usual weekly or fortnightly breaks.  Foxes Hotel does not provide any personal care but is happy to provide a list of local care agencies.

• Holiday Care
  Travel and holiday information for people with sensory and learning disabilities, older people, carers, one-parent families and those on low income.

• Independence South West
  Rockville Respite Centre, Plymstock, Plymouth Tel: 01752 401520
  
  
• Island Mobility
  Equipment hire for disabled people travelling to Lanzarote

• MENCAP Holiday Services
  Advice and information on holidays.  Tel: 0207 696 6900/6979.

• Mobilitycosta
  Services for the Disabled holiday maker on the Costa del Sol.

• National Autistic Society (NAS)
  Provides an annually updated information sheet of holidays  for people with autism and related disorders.

• National Trust
  Produces a booklet "Information for Visitors with Disabilities" available to download here or by post

• RADAR (Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation)
  Produces an online version of "A Guide for disabled people to holiday accommodation in Britain and Ireland".  Tel: 0207 250 3222.

• Youth Hostel Association (YHA)
  Welcomes people with disabilities and has a number of hostels accessible to wheelchair users.

Contact us

• Carers in Devon
  Social Services Directorate
  The Annexe
  County Hall
  Topsham Road
  EXETER
  EX2 4QR

01392 382331

carersindevon@devon.gov.uk

• or call your local Social Services office

Also on devon.gov.uk

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