took me four hours of calling around to find a #Seattle hotel that had a "roll in shower with handicap bars" AND a pool, but at last I got us all booked for a family trip to Seattle in late August, right before the kids start school again, lol. It's a couple blocks walk from the southern monorail station and has plenty of restauraunts nearby to see, we'll have two elderly disabled people with us (one severely disabled) and two young kids so that will impact our travel ability a lot, but we'll drive our cars there (and pay $52/night/car for four nights, so that'll be a lovely chunk, but again, disabled people makes it a lot harder to rely on public transit...) and just be prepared to always take one or both disabled person back to their hotel room to rest. My dad is freaking out but that's exactly why we need to take him--I won't let his agoraphobia get the best of him, when he always feels much happier once he's finally out of the house.
Hopefully the weather isn't too sweltering...every year is hotter (it's 96 degrees in Portland today) but we'll do the best we can, I guess. I'm pissed how hard it was to find a hotel that was actually ADA compliant, and that I have to pay out the ass for a "suite" just to have a walk-in shower. But this country hates disabled people (and those who experience mental healthcare crises, and people who don't want to get shot, etc etc etc...) so what else is new?
