disabled travel centre parcs

[mumdebs]

hi were loking at taking our disabled boys to centre parcs. we wnet to longleat last year and did ot find that very accessable (especially the pool) is there a better one to go to? i was thinking woburn or elveden

I dont find Center Parcs that disability friendly to be honest. We have done Longleat and Woburn and it is still a case of more tolerant than actually accessible.

It may be different with children as we went with a disabled relative who was elderly but it was still a pain, and when there is an issue they are way out of their depth. For example the mobility transport broke down at Longleat so they told us to get on the land train with our electric wheelchair (it is a wheelchair and not a mobility scooter) cue a stand off with the driver who was adament it was a mobility scooter as it had 4 wheels (I still dont understand his argument as most wheelchairs have 4 wheels!) and refused to let us board. As I'm petty I then stood in front of the train until he called his manager to come to the train as he wouldn't accept me even showing him an online advert for the same wheelchair showing it is clearly a wheelchair. Manager came out, apologised, let us on the train and we went straight to guest services to complain. Elderly relative was absolutely mortified and wanted to go home as she wouldn't be able to cope with the argument every time. In the end they let us keep our car by the lodge (it was an exclusive lodge with a downstairs bedroom) and we could use that to get around. Although that caused issues as people couldn't understand why we were allowed to do it and they couldn't so got a lot of side eye and tutting when parking up places. We wouldn't go back now because of this.