Guatemala Handicap Help Needed

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Guatemala Handicap Help Needed
HEALTH TRAVEL TIP

Do you know of a friend who uses a wheelchair in Guatemala?
Do you live in Guatemala, will you please go look around your city?

I have a reader who is coming to Guatemala with friend that is handicapped and uses a wheelchair. These two women need information on housing that has wheelchair access.

Any kind of advice will be helpful; the person is coming to Guatemala for some form of special medical treatment that is not in the USA.

They need information on two cities, Guatemala City and Antigua.

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Panajachel, Guatemala
Saturday, December 27, 2008
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This is information that can help many people, and is much more important than normal. The comments you write here can help many people to enjoy Guatemala.

NEED:
- Hotels or Apartments that are handicap ready?
- Transportation for handicapped?

It is rather ironic I got this email today from a reader in the USA. I was just about to write my first daily Travel Tip as my Christmas Gift to Readers when I read this email. I then realized this Travel Tip was more important.

I am going to Antigua today and will walk around and look for Hotels for this reader that is coming to Guatemala on the 25 of January.

PLEASE MAKE A COMMENT NOW

1. Go to the Permanent link of this page. - Click Here Handicap Help

2. Go to the bottom of the page and look for the words
“Post a Comment.”

Take great care, read the instructions above the comments box, you will need to type in the “Funny Letters” and choose “Anonymous” before you click on the “Publish Your Comments”

Thank you, your comments here can truly help another person.

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CT_Bob said on Sunday December 28th, 2008 08:27:00 AM

This won't be much help, but since I travel by motorcycle a bunch, I look for such things to some extent also. In Antigua (and other places) I looked at a few hotels that had ramps to get into the first floor, which had rooms with big showers and doors. NOT specifically wheelchair designed, but would do the trick. Could not tell you which ones though. I think they used to be horse liveries or something. Or maybe the rich would just ride their carriages into their homes.Bob L

Andy HoboTraveler.com said on Sunday December 28th, 2008 12:54:00 PM

There are Hotels here in Guatemala and Antigua that have extra large colonial style doors. There are also doors that open for a carriage or car, these are great ways to enter a Hotel.I talked with about 10 hotels, and strangely the majority said there was no problem or they had rooms for Wheelchairs. The words for wheelchair in Spanish is - Silla de RuedasWhen I went inside the Hotel and looked at the room, they were just normal rooms. Truly they do not know what a handicap room is...I need to discover the width of a wheelchair. I have yet to find an extra wide opening to the restroom or handle, etc.