Excellent Disabled Accommodation and Days Out
5
5
Date of visit: August 2016
I have experience of challenges around: moving around
Overall Rating
Excellent
Full wheelchair accessible accommodation with friendly staff. 24 hour nursing care is also available and volunteer help on a one-to-one basis for washing, toileting and bathing facilities. Ensuite facilities in each bedroom. Full-board is provided. Daily trips organised to places of interest within the North-West area, taken out on adapted buses with lifts for the guests. Gives the opportunity for disabled people and people with disabilities to mix with able bodied volunteers from all walks of life and from other European countries also. Individuals are also taken out into the Southport seaside resort to enjoy the likes of shopping, eating out in various accessible restaurants and pubs and the town's amusements. People with varying disabilities are accommodated for at Sandpipers. The Sandpipers centre is based on the dunes facing the largest in land man-made lake in Great Britain.
Disabled Access In and Around
Excellent
Level access throughout the building, there are two floors with lift facilities to take wheelchairs and beds in the two lifts. It has a sun veranda to look out over the garden and marine lake. It has its own indoor swimming pool with hoists to allow wheelchair users.
Parking & Transport
Excellent
Excellent transport to travel into town and to the trips provided. Disabled parking also available.
Accessible Toilets
Excellent
Varied toilets facilities to accommodate most, if not all levels of disability.
Staff
Excellent
All extremely friendly and helpful and cannot do enough to help and assist you to enjoy your stay to the maximum.
