Barrier Free Travels

Change is in the air with the way Hotels.com makes reservations for wheelchair-accessible rooms. And that's a very good thing. Currently it's almost impossible to reserve an accessible room with this major hotel consolidator, as a reservation for an accessible rooms is only treated as a request. But under the settlement terms of Smith v. Hotels.com L.P, Hotels.com has agreed to alter their way of doing business.

It's often said that able-bodied people are just a slip, trip or fall away from becoming disabled. In fact, in many circles bipeds are called "temporarily able-bodied people" or TABS. In short, disability doesn't discriminate - it can happen to anyone at any time.

There's plenty of travel advice on the internet today; in fact, the medium has opened up the communication channels, so you can research destinations, get advice and even see photos of your vacation destination. But, don't believe everything you read on the internet; in fact there's some downright bad advice floating around out there.

I was skimming through USA Today the other day when I came across an article about an interesting use of tweeting. No, it wasn't an article about  bird watching - it was about the use of Twitter, a social networking site

I was browsing through the Washington Post this weekend, when I found an interesting quote from a spokesman from Air Serv, a company that provides wheelchair pushers to a number of air carriers. He said that travelers should feel free to ask for extra help from wheelchair pushers.

Hmmm. Well I guess you can ask, but legally they aren't required to give you that much extra help. Of course I guess that depends on how he defines extra help.