Travelling With Specific Needs
Though specific facilities or allowances for the disabled are rare in Tenerife, most major towns, resorts and, by law, all new public buildings are required to be fully accessible by wheelchair-users. The wheelchair-bound are likely to find most older town centres difficult (sometimes impossible) to negotiate, however - littered as they are with steps and narrow pavements - but should have an easier time in new resorts, particularly Los Cristianos where the pedestrianized centre has been designed with wheelchairs in mind. As a disabled traveller you are advised to make accommodation arrangements before you go. You will generally be restricted to package accommodation, the suitability and location of which you should check with your travel agent. Most travel agents will keep a number of accommodation gazetteers on hand which should be able to provide enough information to make sure your hotel or apartment won't cause unforeseen problems. In addition it's well worth browsing the well-designed Travel for All Web site, www.cabtfe.es/sinpromi/index2-en.html , which includes an extensive searchable database listing disabled-friendly accommodation and attractions. Transport is still the main problem for wheelchair users, since buses are not equipped to deal with these. Taxi drivers are usually helpful, though, and it's also well worth contacting the experienced local company Disabled Travellers Le Ro in Puerto de la Cruz (tel 922/373 301) or Los Cristianos (tel 922/750 289), who can organize island trips in a specially designed tour bus. The company also services and delivers equipment and can be of considerable general assistance. Their Los Cristianos office is in the wheelchair-friendly Mar y Sol , whose resident dive school teaches diving to the disabled.
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