Australia
Melbourne
Hotel Area
Description & Accessibility
Hotel Lindrum
26 FLINDERS STREET
MELBOURNE, VIC
The hotel itself was accessible.
It had a wheelchair lift that lifted the wheelchair from street level to entrance level, inside it had one elevator. It was a nice hotel, but would be an issue if either the one elevator or the outside wheelchair lift ever broke down and / or had to be taken out of service for repair. Another note I should mention is that the only way for the outside lift to work is that a guard rail must be down both in front of you and in back which means the length of your mobility device had to be within standards, could be an issue if you have a scooter than is longer than a standard wheelchair, even for me some shopping bags that we had hung on the back of the wheelchair had to be removed in order for the safety metal rail to be lowed on back and front for the lift to operate.
Although the hotel was more than acceptable you may want to consider a hotel that did not require an outside wheelchair stair lift to get into the hotel and one that has more than one elevator.
Some nearby streets on one side of the hotel where a bit steep and was difficult to proceed up in a wheelchair, I had a manual wheelchair at the time and it took both me and my wife full efforts to get up some streets where we wanted to shop at. There may be further away less steep routes that we never investigated that could route us to less of an incline route but further so we could go down rather than up the problem streets.
By: Donald Kerr