Hotel Kyrenia with disabled facilities recommendations pleas

[Rafferty]

Hello peeps,

Need advice on central hotels in Kyrenia that have disabled facilities. The most central the better with good customer service, facilities even better

[kiwikid]

The Pia Bella in town has a wonderful Disabled room, and the whole hotel is very accessible.
If you want something a bit posher then any of the Merit Hotel are fantastic.
My Mum is in a wheel chair and has stayed at both.

[Rafferty]

Thank you for your reply. It is very nice to receive a reply as I have found that people do not often reply or are not very forthcoming with information to help people.

If anyone needs any assistance with anything I am more than happy to help )

[Keithcaley]

...I have found that people do not often reply or are not very forthcoming with information to help people...

I would be interested to see supporting evidence for this commment!

[madeincyprus]

i would also say the Pia Bella as my mum stayed there a few times also. The Malpas is also very good for wheelchair users.

[Ragged Robin]

Rafferty: I am partially disabled in that I cannot walk far and have problems with steep and rough ground and kerbs. I am not sure about the inside of the Pia Bella but when attending a Charity "do" I had problems parking and walking from the car park to the hotel. You do not specify the disability but if it involves a wheelchair user who drives themself, or someone who cannot walk far without help, I think you should check it out for kerbs and different ground levels.

I do agree with your comment about people's unwillingness to help and reciprocate it if there is anything I can doto help - though it is of necessity limited by my own problems. I would be particularly interested in sharing experience and knowledge of facilities and mutual help with someone else with physical problems.

With regard to KC's comment, it is difficult to prove a negative. ! People may be keen to demonstrate their 'goodness' by supporting charities that have popular appeal: but I wonder how many frail elderly, the disabled or people alone or themselves caring for a disabled dependent are struggling without help, because they do not attract publicity and are unattractive. I spent some time working for Charity for the disabled who were often distressing to look at and the British community just abandoned the Charity. I myself , as I keep pointing out, have only survived the last few years because of the help and support of mostly Cypriot friends - and I am not the only one - Brits are too busy with their own concerns to have time for those less fortunate.

[jacob]

RR, I note from previous posts your problems with your disability, were you "disabled" before you chose to live in NC.

[Dalartokat]

Jacob, I'm sure RR will not mind me saying this, but RR has lived in NC for well over 20 years. I am hoping that by your posting that you will not take it further to suggest anything else but to show empathy or sympathy to anyone who finds it difficult to get around as they get older in NC.

We can all debate the whys and wherefores of people making decisions to live in NC from when they were younger, to still making that decision to stay when they get older. For some, it's difficult with the facilities that are available to them to have to make the decision to stay and in turn, can make life very frustrating.

[jacob]

Simple question answered.

I. Should also say, my experience of the Pia Bella would be to say there is nothing good about the place. Worst hotel in Cyprus imo. Not disabled friendly ar all.

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks Dalartokat for your support and your comments are very valid and compassionate.

However I am making the assumption that Jacobs comment was not intended to be offensive and I dont mind answering, if it helps others.

No I was not partially disabled when I came to Cyprus - I had a very mild form of arthiritis but it was a nuisance rather than a handicapp and actually the climate here helped it I was fairly fit and active at the time and was able to take my dogs long walks in the hills - they are probaby suffering more than I now, from lack of exercise!. And life here was very different in those days and in some ways easier and people were more mutually supportive and less inclined to form cliques. I dont know if I would have come if I had been at my current level of disability but I would certainly advise anyone handicapped thinking of coming here to look very closely and ensure that they have a strongly committed and supportive family and circle of friends and plenty of money. However if I had not, I would have missed 10 wonderful years, and even now, although life it very uncertain, it is probably better than being stuck in an old folks homeat best in the UK, once indeed and if I had restablished myself into the system.

By its very nature the TRNC just does not have the social support for disablement of any kind, and the terrain does not help, but it does very much depend on the kind and degree of disability and personal resources. I had a friend who was partially paralised as a result of an accident , she had to return to UK because the medical facilities and treatment she needed just werent available here. In my case I have had excellent treatment here,( with one exception, but that isanother story) but cost is a problem as I lost a large proportion of my savings in an ill advised investment and the cost of living is increasing rather faster than my pension , largely imho as a result of unreasonable expectation of the expat population.

Other factors that influence my quality of life over the last 12 years, more than the handicap, are the increased amount and type of traffic -being only able to afford an elderly saloon I am being (sometimes literally) forced off the road by my bete noire , the off-road vehicles and I can not drive at night because of the glaring headlights. And I cant even walk down my own , once quiet village, road because of danger from fast vehicle (and many of them ARE British) let alone with my dogs. I have thought about something like a mobility scooter for when I don't need the car and to walk my dogs, but again it would be too dangerous. Access to the sea is also something I miss very much but any beaches which do not involves steps or scrambling down rocks are inaccessible because of aforesaid driving problems.

Reverting to KCs request for proof of lack of support I suggest he looks back to The Green Hills thread: when I expressed my difficulties in accessing
it, only one person replied. No one suggested that something should be done to enable frail and disabled mourners to get there (eg a shared taxi); nor have my suggestions over the years that Charities should lay on transport (which I offered to arrange) for those who could not or did not wish (it might also have reduced the accident figures!) to drive, Nor as far as I am aware have the Charities arranged disabled parking at the venues nor provided disabled toilets. Again on another occasion when I explained I had problems with medication which was only available in the South which I could not get to , only one person offered despite the fact a lot of the posts here are about people going south for non-essential reasons. I am not asking for help - I am getting it marvellously from Cypriot friends - but pointing out that there is a serious lack of compassion in the new (post-2014) Brit community.

Reverting

[kiwikid]

Just getting back to the original post, My mum is confined to a wheelchair permanently, she stayed at the Pia Bella most of the time by herself with my children staying the odd night and myself picking her up to go out.
She had no problem getting to the carpark even by herself to wait for me. and I usually dropped her off out the front of the hotel, staff were very helpful, if she needed it.

[woodspeckie]

I have stayed at the Pia Bella on numerous occasions when disabled people have been there, there are access ramps to the hotel and restaurant, it is level ground from the car park, the friendly efficient staff are very helpful, there are rooms adapted for disabled guests.