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Old Oct 3, 2015 | 8:57 pm
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JDiver
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Hi, and welcome to FlyerTalk.

You're in the "Disability Travel" forum, and some members have already made some helpful posts. I'd recommend reading some of the existing threads here.

For travel, you've not told us origin, connections nor airline; telling us those can help. Some members have experiences with specific airlines and airports.

You'll find people in Belfast (County Down, Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, not the Republic of Ireland, as I'm sure you know) very hospitable and helpful. There's a reasonably high level of disability awareness, so visiting most venues you'll encounter few barriers or people willing to overcome them. The Titanic Museum is quite new, and offers lifts and ramps, iirc, for example.

Check the Belfast City Council's DisabledGo site for some information, here: http://www.disabledgo.com/organisati...council/main-2. Check the "Travel and Accomodation" section. Here you can read the international airport's disability guide, for example.

(DisabledGo was founded by a wheelchair user, Dr. Gregory Burke, and Belfast is one of the first five cities of 39 in the U.K. to have a DisabledGo guide.

“Belfast is also one of the first five cities to be launched in DisabledGo’s new website format. The new features include high contrast and larger text options, a listen to this website feature and an improved design for speech browser capability developed in consultation with disabled people."

Dr. Burke has said "Disabled people are no small minority. One in six of the British population is disabled and disabled people have an annual spend of £80 billion. Those are numbers that any business or service provider should take seriously." There's an incentive!)

Visit Belfast has some disability related links here: http://visit-belfast.com/home/page/getting-around

Disability Action in Belfast: http://www.disabilityaction.org
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