Handicapped Access Travel, Disabled Traveler Guides

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Accessibility and finding care for special needs can be a huge challenge when you travel... but it doesn't have to be. These sites explore the world of travelling with disabilities or illness.

Access-Able Travel Source - A top destination for wheelchair and disabled access information since 1995 with guides to world destinations, equipment rentals, hotels, restaurants, cruises, travel agents and related links.

Disability Travel and Recreation Resources - An extensive directory with links by category to travel planning, destinations, transportation, hotels, air travel, kid's sites, related books and more.

Society for Accessible Travel & Hospitality - What to do at security checkpoints, a travel insurance checklist, plus a number of how-to's for traveling with arthritis, speech or vision impairment, traveling in a wheelchair and other tips for the physically impaired on the road.

DisablityWORLD.com - Extensive U.K.-based directory to holidays, travel and leisure with thousands of links to hotels, tours and excursions, restaurants, activity holidays and lots more related info of interest to the disabled.

Gimp on the Go - An engaging online magazine edited by a disabled American curmudgeon ('with tongue planted firmly in cheek') and providing travel reviews, visitor recommendations, photo gallery, bulletin board, related links and a U.S. travel database searchable by a variety of useful disability access criteria.

Flying with Disability - A complete guide to air travel for the disabled with tips to preplanning, getting around the airport, plane accessibility, flying with a guide dog or wheelchair, plus related and general travel links.

Allgohere.com - U.K. directory of disability-friendly hotels in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Island, and boasting the world's only accessible airline directory with info on individual airlines' policies and services for the disabled around the world.