For mobility needs, care assistance and those with sensory impairments
If you are a looking for a holiday that will cater for all your needs, be that space for wheelchair manoeuvres, a flat floor wetroom, care whilst you’re away or ease for access for travellers with limited mobility, then we can help!
There are specialists who offer holidays around the world and in the UK for a wide range of needs, including dementia.
We can also recommend AccessAble, whose accessibility guides cover many thousands of places in the UK and Ireland, all visited in person.
Accessibility and assistance information can be found on Silver Travel Advisor’s holiday company pages and also on our Accessible Holidays page.
Specialist Accessible and Assisted Holiday Companies
Enable Holidays take you to Europe and beyond, with adapted transfers from the airport to your accommodation, which is audited for suitability. Five times winner of the Silver Travel Awards for Best Accessible Travel Company.
Limitless Travel for tours on adapted coaches, with carers, in the UK and Scotland, along with tailor-made trips in Europe. Special discounts for Silver travellers.
Dementia Adventure 
specialise in designing and delivering small-group short breaks and holidays for people living with dementia with an emphasis on nature and being outdoors.
Mind For You provides unique, life-enhancing, year-round specialist holidays in Scotland, Wales and England to people living with dementia, their family and their friends.
Revitalise is one of the largest providers of respite holidays with on-call nurse-led care for disabled people and carers in the UK, catering for over 150 different impairments.
Driving Miss Daisy provides a safe, friendly and reliable driving and companion service for people unable or not wishing to drive. It caters for wheelchair users and walkers and always offers a supporting arm if required, ideal for transportation to and from your holiday, as well as days out and assisted tours.
UK and Channel Island Breaks that offer Accessible Accommodation
Forest Holidays for beautiful, adapted Silver Birch cabins in woodland locations, for tranquillity amongst the trees. Special offers for Silver Travellers.
HF Holidays leisure breaks – singing & music, art & crafts, duplicate bridge, meditation – at their wheelchair accessible country house hotels. Contact Reservations Team for accessibility and assistance information on 020 3974 8865.
Original Cottages for self-catering properties in England and Wales for couples, families and larger groups, pets too in some cases!
Warner Leisure Hotels stay in accessible country house hotels or seaside villages with daytime activities & live evening entertainment. Silver Traveller discounts – quote PHC Silver.
Europe and Beyond
Artisan Travel offer slightly off the beaten track trips and adventures, so if you have special requirements, give them a call on 01670 785085.
Aurora Zone are experts in Northern lights holidays, up in the northern climes. There are lots of activities, suitable for beginners.
Eurocamp with adapted accommodation in France, designed for wheelchair users, flat floor wetroom, ramps and wide doors. Pre-book wheelchair hire also available.
Kirker Holidays provides tailor-made holidays – let them know what you’d like, and they will arrange it!
Saga Holidays go almost everywhere and do almost everything from Rhine cruises to jazz weekends, to trips for single travellers and escorted tours in Borneo, as well as the UK too!
Santa’s Lapland take the grandchildren on a magical trip to visit Father Christmas and the elves. For accessibility and assistance information, please call 01483 676956.
Accessible Ocean Cruises
Azamara 
offers accessible staterooms and all reasonable assistance to make your voyage as enjoyable as possible. Call 0344 493 4016 to discuss your requirements.
Celebrity Cruises create wonderful opportunities for everyone, mobility issues and sensory impairment and autism are well catered for here.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines have adapted rooms and provide full information about disability and reduced mobility.
Holland America Line have good provision for wheelchairs and mobility scooters, as well as hearing and visual impairments. Be sure to discuss your needs when booking.
Hurtigruten welcome those with limited mobility and have cabins on nearly all their ships that are suitably adapted.
Princess Cruises have wheelchair accessible staterooms on all ships, and will do all they can to assist you, there are medical staff on board.If you need oxygen on a cruise, they can help.
Saga Cruises have adapted cabins for wheelchair and mobility scooter users.Assistance dogs can be accommodated too.
Accessible River & Canal Cruises
Some ships have accessible cabins and lifts, but please be aware that getting on and off the vessel requires good mobility. Planks are narrow and cannot accommodate a wheelchair or scooter, and it is common for a river ship to tie up next to others in port, so guests need to be able to step across at least one other boat to get on or off.
ABC Boat Hire travel the UK waterways in super narrowboats, of differing sizes. Lots of departure points and miles of fabulous canals to explore – all very slowly!
CroisiEurope have lifts, adapted cabins and accessible bathrooms on some of their European river fleet.
Enable Holidays offer river cruises in The Netherlands, on board the well-equipped Prins Willem Alexander, which is designed for wheelchairs with adapted cabins, bathrooms and spacious public areas.
Mini Guide
The jolly useful mini guide to Accessible Holidays and Attractions is available free. We can send it out in the post, or you can view it online or download it – take a look just here!
More interesting articles
A wide selection of articles are available here to read.
Highlights include:
- Travel tips from AccessAble – information you can trust
- Accessible Accommodation around the UK
- Air, Rail, Coach and Taxi services for limited mobility and accessibility requirements
- Suggestions for Activities for Those with Limited Mobility or Disabilities
- Tips, ideas and useful websites for those travelling with a wheelchair, limited mobility or disability
- Questions to ask when booking a holiday with limited mobility, disability and care needs
- Answers to accessibility travel questions
- Airport Assistance – Airline Accessibility
- Facilities for People with Disabilities (FPDs)
- Passengers with Reduced Mobility (PRM) at Gatwick Airport
- Planning a Holiday for Elderly Parents
- Solo Cruising with a Mobility Scooter – Princess Lines & Cunard
- Specialist companies for those with limited mobility or accessibility requirements
- Should Dementia Stop your Holidays? We Don’t Think So!
- Supported Holidays with Dementia Adventure
- Useful travel sites for dementia, dialysis, oxygen, carers and general information
- A place like no other: three unforgettable stories from Revitalise guests
