These are two reviews from Barbara and much appreciated. Both could be nominated for a Blue Badge Access Award
Watatunga Wildlife Reserve Near Kings Lynn.
As a group of 5, son plus partner, daughter in a wheelchair and parents, it’s difficult to find things we can all do together. We were able to have a 90 min. Safari where our daughter was in a wheelchair trailer with adequate wheel locking clamps and we were in the golf style buggies. It was great to be able to take pictures of the rare Bongo, many different deer and antelopes, wildebeest, water buffaloes and exotic birds. Good parking, access ramps and very helpful staff as well as an accessible toilet. All this on top of the excellent conservation the centre is doing in addition to making good use of an abandoned quarry and gravel pits. Well worth the money but book in good time.
NB If you want to stay the Major’s Lodge is accessible with a wet room & (very long) ramped access. But you need 8 friends to use all the bedrooms!
(They also have two hearing loop devices for hearing aids fitted with a telecoil and two large print guide books per tour. For further infomation, please refer to our Day Visitor Access Guide. In the Guide you can see there’s a changingPlaces toilet with adult changing bed.) Ed.
Peckover House & Garden, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
A small Georgian town house with interesting gardens. Its website advises that parking for blue badge holders is permitted on the double yellow lines right outside the property. The reason why I include this in my list…..it is the best toilet we have ever come across and was installed with the help of the council and the Muscular Dystrophy Society. There was a full size adult changing bed, a full blown hoist just like the one in our daughter’s care home room, a shower and a large sink that was easily adjusted to an appropriate height. In addition to this there was ample room for a power chair to turn completely around very easily.
And here’s a video of said loo – including very Georgian music??
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