Disabled travellers accessible room at Goodwood hotel
3.5
3.5
Date of visit: September 2024
I am a disabled person and a carer or friend of a disabled person. I have experience of challenges around: moving around
Overall Rating
Good
For our third review of this hotel, we share with you our thoughts and photos of our recent 2024 visit to Goodwood. It’s not a posh hotel, very basic actually, but quite popular, car park is always full, with either hotel guests or those using the pleasant Spa and health club. The hotel is cosy, well maintained, comfortable. The rooms are pleasant enough, beds very comfortable, and ideal for disabled as they are high enough to allow you to slide into bed. There’s just enough room to be able to move around, and the accessible rooms are very nice, pleasantly decorated, with enough furniture to make a short break worth while. The hotel has two restaurants, one you use for breakfast and lunch, before that closes at 6.00pm, then the main evening restaurant stands alongside the hotel itself, just hope it’s not raining when you need it. The room is ok, nothing flashy, the bar is small, and old looking, it’s ok for pre-dinner drinks, but we would have hoped for better. Dogs are allowed inside bar, and that’s ok if dogs get along, but as its small, you have to hope people know how to control them, it got a bit noisy on our visit. The one problem we feel with the hotel, is that’s it’s a long narrow type of buildings, and it’s quite an effort to move from one end to the other. Our accessible room on this visit was close to reception area, so easy to get in out of car park space, but to get to breakfast, or early evening dinner before 6.00pm, you need to get wheelchair through rather narrow doorways, and then face lots of turns and twists as you make your way towards the restaurant, which is at the furthest position from reception, and there are slopes to contend with. The restaurant itself is pleasant enough, you will find room to place your wheelchair, and the food is nice, basic with a reasonable choice. The bar is tucked away in the corner of the restaurant, and not many seating spots, we struggled a bit with the chair, but coped. You may feel we have given the hotel a few negative reports, but we personally enjoyed our two visits here over the years, SO DO READ OUR OTHER REVIEWS AS WELL so as to get a better feel about the hotel.
Disabled Access In and Around
Average
The hotels car parking is on compressed stone, ok if weather dry, and to get towards the main entrance you need to be pushed across this compressed stone area, then along unlevel flat stones, rather difficult for my wife to cope with. It’s level enough to reach reception desk once inside, but then you face a twisting passageway to get to your room. After that, access to restaurant involves slopes, twists and turns through narrow doorways, we coped ok, but a large chair or scooter may curse a few times before you can relax in the restaurant bar lounge.
Parking & Transport
Good
This is a busy hotel, and car park always seems to be full during the day, there’s only a couple of disabled bays near to main entrance, we have been fortunate enough to be able to use them a few times, but we have also had to drive around a large and complicated car park areas to find other disabled bays, with again never enough disabled bays, so you could end up anywhere.
Accessible Toilets
Good
We found the bedroom bathroom to be ok, especially this last visit, and wheelchair coped very well. It had grab rails and pull cord, and working the shower head was reasonably easy enough. DO LOOK AT OUR OTHER REVIEWS AS WELL, as you will see another bathroom we had on our first visit here. We did not have to use public toilets in the hotel, actually, we didn’t even see them, so cannot offer you any idea.
Staff
Good
All the staff were pleasant and helpful, and tried hard to please us.
