Wonderful cinema - please improve access!
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Date of visit: November 2014
I have experience of challenges around: moving around
Overall Rating
Average
Beautiful, historic 'movie hall' cinema has goodwill, but needs better disabled access. A able-bodied cinema-lover's dream, but less so a disabled one's....
Disabled Access In and Around
Average
There's a step into the cinema, but they'll put up a portable ramp to allow you to get in. It's not possible to get a wheelchair to the box office. Inside the cinema, you can place your wheelchair at the front or near the back. It's small, so views are OK.
Parking & Transport
Good
Blue badge spot directly outside, buses with disabled access on the Cowley Road. Reasonably accessible.
Accessible Toilets
Bad
This is the killer. The toilets are down a staircase below the stage. Absolute disaster for the disabled. There's a disabled loo in the locked church opposite & you might try George & Davis ice-cream over the road for a loo.
Staff
Excellent
Lovely helpful staff. They'll do what they can.
Additional Information
If they could find a way of getting an accessible toilet (very difficult, as it's a tiny historic building - lovingly restored), that would make a huge difference.
