{"id":806,"date":"2015-04-10T01:53:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T01:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wordpress\/?p=46"},"modified":"2015-04-10T01:53:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T01:53:21","slug":"findinng-a-hotel-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/2015\/04\/10\/findinng-a-hotel-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a Hotel Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staying in a hotel when you use an electric wheelchair can be quite difficult. \u00a0Finding a room with the &#8220;essentials&#8221; can be difficult In August of 2013 I took a trip to Europe for two weeks with my brother Ethan. \u00a0While planning for this trip we wondered how we could find a hotel that would meet my accessibility needs: wide doors, spacious room, roll-in shower. \u00a0In the past I&#8217;ve used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotels.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hotels.com<\/a>\u00a0to find accessible rooms, with roll-in showers, as it&#8217;s accessibility features option is a great help. \u00a0However, as we were looking around Europe this still proved difficult. \u00a0However, we came upon a hotel Raddison Blu in Paris, and lo and behold it was accessible. \u00a0As chance would have it, there was also one in Berlin, and one in London. \u00a0I speak a little French and Ethan speaks a little German, yet we feared our speaking skills might not be up to snuff to communicate my needs. \u00a0Then I had an idea. \u00a0We called Raddison corporate. \u00a0They verified each of the hotels had a room that met my needs, handled the bookings, and also helped me to book accessible taxis from the airport in each city. \u00a0In short, when booking abroad, corporate can be quite helpful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1196.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-48 size-medium\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/_d_improd_\/IMG_1196-300x225_f_improf_300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1196\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel room bathroom at the Radisson Blu in Berlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staying in a hotel when you use an electric wheelchair can be quite difficult. \u00a0Finding a room with the &#8220;essentials&#8221; can be difficult In August of 2013 I took a trip to Europe for two weeks with my brother Ethan. \u00a0While planning for this trip we wondered how we could find a hotel that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}