Of Interest to Brits

[BritTim]

All the members who moan about UK passport services now, please stop and think.

Think about folk like me !!Paraplegic !! how the hell i am expected to get there?

I know a Swedish Paraplegic to travels from Sweden to Thailand every year for a holiday.

How the hell does he do that ?

Some airlines provide "lifting services" to assist paraplegics to and from their seats. Pretty much all airlines provide wheelchair service to get you to the aircraft door.

Most people without experience tend to overestimate some difficulties the disabled encounter and underestimate others. Three steps or a narrow doorway can sometimes be an insurmountable obstacle, and it may be impossible to go to a cinema. On the other hand, with suitable amenities and minimal assistance, a paraplegic may be able to participate in adventure holidays.

[johnatong]

All the members who moan about UK passport services now, please stop and think.

Think about folk like me !!Paraplegic !! how the hell i am expected to get there?

I know a Swedish Paraplegic to travels from Sweden to Thailand every year for a holiday.

How the hell does he do that ?

Some airlines provide "lifting services" to assist paraplegics to and from their seats. Pretty much all airlines provide wheelchair service to get you to the aircraft door.

Most people without experience tend to overestimate some difficulties the disabled encounter and underestimate others. Three steps or a narrow doorway can sometimes be an insurmountable obstacle, and it may be impossible to go to a cinema. On the other hand, with suitable amenities and minimal assistance, a paraplegic may be able to participate in adventure holidays.

I am fully aware of the assistance that most airlines provide to the disabled.

The question revolves around someone claiming disability prevents attendance in Bangkok.

The Swedish gent has to travel to and from airports and I am sure the airlines provide no assistance which enables him to accomplish that.

Whilst in Thailand this gent also has to negotiate the various hazards which even the non disabled sometimes find challenging. This man does not just sit in a ground floor hotel room for a month! He goes out in his electric chair and enjoys his holiday !

[BritTim]

I know a Swedish Paraplegic to travels from Sweden to Thailand every year for a holiday.

How the hell does he do that ?

Some airlines provide "lifting services" to assist paraplegics to and from their seats. Pretty much all airlines provide wheelchair service to get you to the aircraft door.

Most people without experience tend to overestimate some difficulties the disabled encounter and underestimate others. Three steps or a narrow doorway can sometimes be an insurmountable obstacle, and it may be impossible to go to a cinema. On the other hand, with suitable amenities and minimal assistance, a paraplegic may be able to participate in adventure holidays.

I am fully aware of the assistance that most airlines provide to the disabled.

The question revolves around someone claiming disability prevents attendance in Bangkok.

The Swedish gent has to travel to and from airports and I am sure the airlines provide no assistance which enables him to accomplish that.

Whilst in Thailand this gent also has to negotiate the various hazards which even the non disabled sometimes find challenging. This man does not just sit in a ground floor hotel room for a month! He goes out in his electric chair and enjoys his holiday !

Without assistance, and especially using an electric wheelchair, getting into Trendy would be tricky, as I recall, with steep steps up from the road. One strong helper would get a travel wheelchair up, but not an electric wheelchair. (Once inside it would be easy.) That aside, for a paraplegic living up country, trips to Bangkok will typically be more expensive than for the able bodied, and require more planning. It is an exaggeration, of course, to suggest it cannot be done, but it would be much easier if a postal application to the UK was allowed, obviating the necessity for the trips.

[johnatong]

I know a Swedish Paraplegic to travels from Sweden to Thailand every year for a holiday.

How the hell does he do that ?

Some airlines provide "lifting services" to assist paraplegics to and from their seats. Pretty much all airlines provide wheelchair service to get you to the aircraft door.

Most people without experience tend to overestimate some difficulties the disabled encounter and underestimate others. Three steps or a narrow doorway can sometimes be an insurmountable obstacle, and it may be impossible to go to a cinema. On the other hand, with suitable amenities and minimal assistance, a paraplegic may be able to participate in adventure holidays.

I am fully aware of the assistance that most airlines provide to the disabled.

The question revolves around someone claiming disability prevents attendance in Bangkok.

The Swedish gent has to travel to and from airports and I am sure the airlines provide no assistance which enables him to accomplish that.

Whilst in Thailand this gent also has to negotiate the various hazards which even the non disabled sometimes find challenging. This man does not just sit in a ground floor hotel room for a month! He goes out in his electric chair and enjoys his holiday !

Without assistance, and especially using an electric wheelchair, getting into Trendy would be tricky, as I recall, with steep steps up from the road. One strong helper would get a travel wheelchair up, but not an electric wheelchair. (Once inside it would be easy.) That aside, for a paraplegic living up country, trips to Bangkok will typically be more expensive than for the able bodied, and require more planning. It is an exaggeration, of course, to suggest it cannot be done, but it would be much easier if a postal application to the UK was allowed, obviating the necessity for the trips.

A postal application would be easier for most people -----------agreed .

[OJAS]

Without assistance, and especially using an electric wheelchair, getting into Trendy would be tricky, as I recall, with steep steps up from the road. One strong helper would get a travel wheelchair up, but not an electric wheelchair. (Once inside it would be easy.) That aside, for a paraplegic living up country, trips to Bangkok will typically be more expensive than for the able bodied, and require more planning. It is an exaggeration, of course, to suggest it cannot be done, but it would be much easier if a postal application to the UK was allowed, obviating the necessity for the trips.

A postal application would be easier for most people -----------agreed .

There is also the issue of whether it is acceptable for an outsourced agent of the British government to be based in a building, access to which would not appear to comply with the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act back in the UK on the basis of BritTim's report.

[thai3]

Apart from the needed marriage stuff 12 years ago I have never had anything to do with them, new passports included, and never intend to use their rip off services for anything. They are a disgrace, if they freeze pensions why not freeze the charge for the letter?