Tenerife

Mar y Sol-Los Christianos

TOUR OPERATOR--Access Travel/also arranged this myself on at least 3 other occassions-1991 to 1995
Submitted April 2001 Client - Gerald - Derbyshire

The studios are small but OK. wheelin showers have grab rails and I have been there 4 times on my own and I would say it is catagory 1. There are ramps and lifts, the lifts can be a little confusing, this place is set at the top of a hill so if you're on your own or got a pusher you will need some puff, apart from a bar/restaurant with entertainment about 100mts away, it's down the hill just mentioned. Breakfast was excellent but I thought the evening meals not so good. Not much by way of entertainment on site.

Mar Y Sol What can I say, on the PLUS side it caters for just about any disablement you can imagine. The apartments are reasonably spacious, particularly the one bedroomed ones, the studio apartments are a bit on the small side but whichever apartment you have they have really good access to the bathrooms. Lifts and landings can easily be accessed and the restaurant and pool area are great; even the sun beds are at the same height as the seat on a wheelchair for ease of transfer across. Help with getting to bed is available, at a cost, as is any assistance to help while staying at Mar Y Sol. The DOWN side must be the difficulty for users of manual wheelchairs to get back from the promenade, up Cardiac Hill to return to Mar Y Sol. Even returning via the top road from Los Cristianos town centre can be difficult because of the hill from the town and negotiating the roundabout before going up a hill again past the Italian Restaurant and the Hotel Reveron to reach Mar Y Sol. The other thing is, not all the apartments have grab rails in the bathroom around the toilet seat and these must be hired, usually from LeRo.

Hotel Las Palmeras-Playa de las Americas
TOUR OPERATOR-High Street-September 1993
Submitted April 2001 Client - jedda - Derbyshire

Spacious hotel but no adaptions, could get in the bathroom with wheelchair, ramps all around the hotel. Fairly flat outside hotel for about 200m each way. Great food and plenty of it and of course hot weather.

Hotel Noelia Sur-Playa de las Americas
TOUR OPERATOR-Access Travel-September 1998
Submitted May 2001 Client - jedda - Derbyshire

Holiday began badly with a 17 hour delay at Birmingham airport due to technical fault with plane. We were looked after very well with an overnight stay at the nearby Metropol Hotel. Once we got to Tenerife things were almost perfect, fabulous hotel including, spacious bedrooms, massive bathroom with wheelin shower, one grabrail. Great food and plenty of it and of course hot weather.

The HOTEL PRINCESS is a nice, wheelchair friendly hotel suitable for all age groups. It has large lifts. The bedrooms which most wheelchair users were given were down quite a steep ramp near the piano bar. There was good entertainment especially for families and older couples.

Hotel Noelia Sur-Playa de las Americas
TOUR OPERATOR-Access Travel-September 1998
Submitted April 2001 Client - Ian White--Staffs

Fabulous hotel including, spacious bedrooms, large bathroom with wheelin shower with one grabrail. Good food and plenty of it and of course hot weather. Some kerbs were very high, but once you get to the promenade it was OK and it was easy to walk to Los Christianos.

Arranged 3 bedroomed apartment very spacious but no adaptions otherwise well equipped, just around the corner from Mar y Sol, so you need a fair bit of puff here also. Onsite catering was OK and fairly priced. Like other parts the apartment we had, had a lot of cockroaches. Weather as you would expect for Tenerife.

The hotel was fabulous including, it had been recently refurbished and had spacious bedrooms, massive bathroom with wheelin shower, one grabrail. Great food and plenty of it and hot weather. The entertainment was nothing special, but much better the nights they had the audiance participating. The sea front was quite along way and a lot more dropdown kerbs were required.

Victoria Court1-Los Christianos
Arranged by a friend-1999
Submitted July 2001 Client - Gwen & Mandy - Burton on Trent

Stayed in a 3 bedroomed apartment. very spacious and well equipped, almost at the top of a long steep hill so you need a fair bit of energy. Onsite catering was OK and fairly priced. Other than one bar/restaurant all the others meant you had to go down the hill. Weather as you would expect for Tenerife.

Mar y Sol-Los Christianos

TOUR OPERATOR-- arranged this through Travelability.co.uk--1 Week 28th December/4th January 2002.
Submitted February 2002
Client - Val, Roy, Jay and Daryl --

Flew from Manchester had wheelchair assistance onto the plane. We were met at the airport in Tenerife by an accessible wheelchair minibus. The lady who met us had even collected our suitcases of the turntable carousel, and we were ready to go to our apartment. It takes about 20 minutes to get to los cristionas from the airport so it wasn’t long before we arrived there.We booked in at reception and a man brought down our luggage for us. The room had 2 bathrooms one of which was accessible for wheel chairs and had a wheel in shower. We did have to hire the shower chair though from a place in the hotel, which has, a lot of equipment for hire e.g. hoists, wheelchairs, walking frames whole range. There is a hoist into the pool and the pool is heated to a lovely warm temperature. There are raised sun loungers for easy transfers. Ramps everywhere. Raised tables in the dining room. We stayed over New Year and they had a gala dinner on New Years Eve, which was very enjoyable. You can also have health treatments at the hotel.