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101 Accessible Vacations: Vacation Ideas for Wheelers and Slow Walkers

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If you like to travel and are challenged physically, this book is well worth adding to your library. Each of the 101 vacation chapters is full of information that is otherwise hard to find. Any one such item is worth the price of the book. That said, only about 3 pages are devoted to each vacation, so don't expect it to be complete. It's a great start to begin further research or a great resource to add knowledge about a place (or a place nearby) that you're already planning to go to. The book is organized by activity rather than geographically and the table of contents uses chapter titles that often don't tell you the geographic location of the vacation. I found it helpful to write the locations in the table of contents for later reference.

101 ACCESSIBLE VACATIONS BY CANDY B. HARRINGTON is a practical and innovative travel guidebook for the physically challenged traveler. Candy is well known in the field of accessible travel and is the editor of Emerging Horizons Magazine. She discusses the previously held theory that all disabled travelers should go to Disney World for vacations because it is know for being well planned for the handicapped tourist. But not everyone likes theme parks, so there must be many alternatives, of which most travel agents are unaware. In this book she tells of many, many different choices for ideal holidays for anyone who has difficulty traveling. She details holidays of every kind in places in many states and in several international destinations. This is a wonderful book for any handicapped traveler and for all travel agents.

As a person struggling with PPMS (primary progressive multiple sclerosis), I was depressed by what I thought was the reality that I would not be able to travel. Not so! This book makes visiting all the places I've wanted to see doable. Thanks Candy Harrington for this book and your enabling outlook on travel.

Product as described. Helpful contact information for destinations included. Appreciated honest description of wheelchair facilities or lack of.

For my husband in a wheelchair who loves to travel - this is a great resource with many new ideas we hadn't thought of. I hope future versions of this come out with more accessible vacations and information!

This book is perfect! I want to do some travelling and I was hesitant to go someplace that I wasn't familar with but this book helps with my questions.

Great ideas for both my husband ( in a wheelchair) and myself with bad knees. The locations are some that I've known about, but others have us heading in a new direction..

This book is very broad overview of the subject matter. While, this is fine, it really doesn't help very much in terms of trying to figure out the logistics that those with disabilities face on a daily basis. With a lot of the topics, I felt like there was some good introductory material, but was again left wanting details such as - How am I going to do? What activities are nearby? (And Yes, I have ton countless number of hours of my own research) I have a complicated situation in terms of my disability and read this entire book, and I still have no idea where I want to go for vacation. So, if you are looking for a book with a few ideas, that then this is fine. If you are looking for a book that has more detail and gets into specifics of access, this book is not for you.

It arrived in decent shape and with fair promptness. A better description of the emphasis of the book would have aided selection.