Looking for advice for a wheelchair user
Nov 12, 2016, 12:05 am
#16
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Hilton, Hyatt House, Del Taco
Posts: 5,378
Bottom line is, you can't really do anything until you know the dates. You'll just have to price things out and see what your options are after you determine when you're taking the trip. You're on a tight budget yet have specific needs, so I think your options will naturally be narrowed down.
You could try contacting one after another of all the different hotels on your link, inquiring about the availability/rate for those universal rooms. But since it seems like the inventory for those special room types is so limited at many of those hotels, you may have a difficult time finding one in a decent hotel available at the right rate.
Alternatively, you could just search for regular twin rooms in at least mid-tier hotels around Tokyo (including nearby suburbs). If you look far in advance, you will almost always find a good-size room (>25m2) in a nice hotel as long as you're not a stickler for location. Then you won't have to settle for a lower-tiered place like Toyoko or Washington, and possibly even better than low-mid-tier places like Fressa and Sunroute. Check with the hotel and make sure they'll have "shower chair" available to rent to you. Based on your criteria from your op, it sounds like you could make do as long as the room is spacious and there's a shower bench available.
You could try contacting one after another of all the different hotels on your link, inquiring about the availability/rate for those universal rooms. But since it seems like the inventory for those special room types is so limited at many of those hotels, you may have a difficult time finding one in a decent hotel available at the right rate.
Alternatively, you could just search for regular twin rooms in at least mid-tier hotels around Tokyo (including nearby suburbs). If you look far in advance, you will almost always find a good-size room (>25m2) in a nice hotel as long as you're not a stickler for location. Then you won't have to settle for a lower-tiered place like Toyoko or Washington, and possibly even better than low-mid-tier places like Fressa and Sunroute. Check with the hotel and make sure they'll have "shower chair" available to rent to you. Based on your criteria from your op, it sounds like you could make do as long as the room is spacious and there's a shower bench available.
Nov 12, 2016, 12:30 am
#17
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: YYZ
Programs: AMEX AC CX UA AA DL
Posts: 3,008
Chain business hotels with Japanese style bathrooms (many but not all Dormy Inn, Villa Fontaine) are another good option.
They don't use typical pre-fabricated "unit bath" so there is no high step up. The shower is outside of the bathtub and is designed for Japanese bathing protocol, meaning one showers and gets thoroughly clean before getting into the tub filled with water which is used by multiple people in the family.
Dormy Inn Premium Kyoto Station Ekimae:
https://www.yadoran.jp/magazine/6661
They don't use typical pre-fabricated "unit bath" so there is no high step up. The shower is outside of the bathtub and is designed for Japanese bathing protocol, meaning one showers and gets thoroughly clean before getting into the tub filled with water which is used by multiple people in the family.
Dormy Inn Premium Kyoto Station Ekimae:
https://www.yadoran.jp/magazine/6661
Nov 12, 2016, 1:38 pm
#18
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: London
Posts: 18,398
Alternatively, you could just search for regular twin rooms in at least mid-tier hotels around Tokyo (including nearby suburbs). If you look far in advance, you will almost always find a good-size room (>25m2) in a nice hotel as long as you're not a stickler for location. Then you won't have to settle for a lower-tiered place like Toyoko or Washington, and possibly even better than low-mid-tier places like Fressa and Sunroute. Check with the hotel and make sure they'll have "shower chair" available to rent to you. Based on your criteria from your op, it sounds like you could make do as long as the room is spacious and there's a shower bench available.
Unforseen circumstances do emerge - with both my trips this year, crows destroyed cables back in Spring and someone fell under the train last month; both incidents messed up trains running towards Shinjuku causing delays of at least an hour. This may not seem like such an ordeal, but riding through unexpected delays and diversions and the accompanying scrums are extremely challenging when you're wheelchair bound.
Options for any eventuality are genuinely easier if you can stick to city centres.
Not to mention how exhausted those in wheelchairs (and those with them) can feel by the end if the day. Commuting in and out each day does take its toll.
Once the dates are decided (so long as it's not a last minute rush) I think the OP is going to have more options than expected.
Nov 12, 2016, 2:34 pm
#19
Original Poster
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Alberta, Canada
Posts: 5
Bottom line is, you can't really do anything until you know the dates. You'll just have to price things out and see what your options are after you determine when you're taking the trip. You're on a tight budget yet have specific needs, so I think your options will naturally be narrowed down.
You could try contacting one after another of all the different hotels on your link, inquiring about the availability/rate for those universal rooms. But since it seems like the inventory for those special room types is so limited at many of those hotels, you may have a difficult time finding one in a decent hotel available at the right rate.
Alternatively, you could just search for regular twin rooms in at least mid-tier hotels around Tokyo (including nearby suburbs). If you look far in advance, you will almost always find a good-size room (>25m2) in a nice hotel as long as you're not a stickler for location. Then you won't have to settle for a lower-tiered place like Toyoko or Washington, and possibly even better than low-mid-tier places like Fressa and Sunroute. Check with the hotel and make sure they'll have "shower chair" available to rent to you. Based on your criteria from your op, it sounds like you could make do as long as the room is spacious and there's a shower bench available.
You could try contacting one after another of all the different hotels on your link, inquiring about the availability/rate for those universal rooms. But since it seems like the inventory for those special room types is so limited at many of those hotels, you may have a difficult time finding one in a decent hotel available at the right rate.
Alternatively, you could just search for regular twin rooms in at least mid-tier hotels around Tokyo (including nearby suburbs). If you look far in advance, you will almost always find a good-size room (>25m2) in a nice hotel as long as you're not a stickler for location. Then you won't have to settle for a lower-tiered place like Toyoko or Washington, and possibly even better than low-mid-tier places like Fressa and Sunroute. Check with the hotel and make sure they'll have "shower chair" available to rent to you. Based on your criteria from your op, it sounds like you could make do as long as the room is spacious and there's a shower bench available.
It's definitely possible for me to stay in a regular twin room as long as I have a shower bench. That is what my family has been doing when we take a trip in north america.
And of course it is preferable to stay near a train station as well.