AIBU to book a wheelchair space

[Iknowitswrong15]

I know I might 100 percent get slaughtered for this and I probably deserve it.
my daughters birthday is coming up and she wanted to see a certain show last year which sold out very quickly. It is coming back this year and the tickets are going quickly again. She is a wheelchair user however she can get out of chair. Due to a really hard year ( recently lost DP ) I wanted to get her tickets for her birthday trip.
I went on site and the only available tickets were 130 plus per ticket.
it’s a lot due to recent circumstances and going from 2 wages to 1 so suddenly.
she uses her wheelchair daily for getting to places like to school and back, shops etf but can walk short distances ( she has 2 organ failures, concratures in legs, and attached to an IV )
however she could make it to a seat as I can take the pumps of chair in to bags and then re attach them after for the journey home.
the wheelchair seats are buy the 100 plus seats but are given at the minimum ticket price of less that 40.00 and can also can book an assistance ticket for free next to wheelchair seat.
i keep going to book it but then keep remembering I’m morally wrong as I can transfer her !
then I lose my morals again and think well it’s ok. I’m over thinking this but it is very morally wrong right ?

Absolutely not wrong/immoral/unreasonable etc.

That's what those seats are for and you are MORE than entitled to use them.

Enjoy :-)

Glad you have booked the tickets OP.

@Anewuser I’m with you on not enough places having changing places toilets. In case you are near any of them there are a few theatres with changing places toilets. Mayflower theatre in Southampton, The Lowry in Salford, Hawth theatre in Crawley and Malvern theatre in Malvern are the ones off the top of my head.

Your daughter is a wheelchair user so I think you should book the wheelchair seat for her and you definitely should not feel guilty.

I think this point re in case of evacuation is really worth reiterating.

@Anewuser There’s also changing places toilets at Curve in Leicester and Crucible in Sheffield, Theatre Royal in Nottingham. There’s probably others too, but I can’t remember any more off the top of my head.

Your daughter is a wheelchair user so that space is meant for people like her. Nothing wrong with that! Book the seat and enjoy the show!

She uses a wheelchair, as long as she is in the wheelchair when watching book the seats

Book the seat
1, She's a wheelchair user
2, It wouldn't be easy to evacuate her without a wheelchair
3, It's unlikely you will be able to leave the wheelchair anywhere
4, You will have a heck of a job getting all the rest of the stuff she needs into the Arena without the wheelchair and they may well try and stop you bringing it in. They are really quite strict in a lot of arenas now (understandably).

The majority of wheelchair users are ambulatory to some degree.

Somehow, society has it the other way round, that ambulatories are the rarity... we're really really not.

So if you didn't book the seats, chances are, another ambulatory user would!

Enjoy! :D

OP I took my Nan who used a wheelchair PT to Dancing On Ice tour and got a wheelchair seat. She kept standing up to clap 😂 but if anyone had a problem with it I don’t care, she was a wheelchair user after all. Go for it!

I'm so pleased you booked the seats!! Enjoy every minute of the show 💐

She is so deserving of that seat.