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**vansVoish** · 10-07-2010, 09:58 PM

In the Bangkok Post today, there was this letter from a disgruntled tourist:

No place for the handicapped tourist

This is just to express our incredible disappointment during our holiday in your country. We have a wheelchair-bound child and we found the complete lack of facilities for the handicapped disgusting.

Nowhere could we get across any road as no one stopped at the pedestrian crossings; the only way across was by "overpass", which has no handicapped facility. Most shopping complexes have no type of handicapped facilities including toilets for the handicapped. Taxis most of the time refused to take us because of the handicapped child with us.

Furthermore, holes in pavements and stalls on footpaths made it impossible to use a wheelchair. A warning must be issued by foreign governments on the dangers facing handicapped tourists here.

PETER Although the situation in Thailand has improved over the years, there still aren't many facilities for wheelchairs to roam in the city. But then, coming to think of it, how many wheelchairs - and baby prams - do you actually see in the city? Do families hide their handicapped members at home because they are ashamed, or do we hardly see them because they physically cannot get around? Must be the latter because you rarely see babies too. But there must be more to it than that.

10-07-2010, 09:58 PM	#1
vansVoish Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 500 Senior Member	Thailand isn't a place for Handicapped In the Bangkok Post today, there was this letter from a disgruntled tourist: No place for the handicapped tourist This is just to express our incredible disappointment during our holiday in your country. We have a wheelchair-bound child and we found the complete lack of facilities for the handicapped disgusting. Nowhere could we get across any road as no one stopped at the pedestrian crossings; the only way across was by "overpass", which has no handicapped facility. Most shopping complexes have no type of handicapped facilities including toilets for the handicapped. Taxis most of the time refused to take us because of the handicapped child with us. Furthermore, holes in pavements and stalls on footpaths made it impossible to use a wheelchair. A warning must be issued by foreign governments on the dangers facing handicapped tourists here. PETER Although the situation in Thailand has improved over the years, there still aren't many facilities for wheelchairs to roam in the city. But then, coming to think of it, how many wheelchairs - and baby prams - do you actually see in the city? Do families hide their handicapped members at home because they are ashamed, or do we hardly see them because they physically cannot get around? Must be the latter because you rarely see babies too. But there must be more to it than that.
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