Accessible Travel, Planned Around You
Every traveler’s needs are different. I’ll help research and coordinate travel options with your individual accessibility needs, preferences, and comfort in mind—so you can spend less time navigating the details and more time looking forward to your trip.
Specialized Training. Personal Understanding.
Accessible travel planning goes beyond checking a box. Specialized training, thoughtful research, and an understanding of each traveler’s individual needs help guide every step of the planning process.
Certified Accessible Travel Advocate® (CATA)
Certified through Special Needs Group, this designation demonstrates specialized training in accessible travel and in supporting travelers with mobility challenges, disabilities, and other accessibility needs. The training provides travel professionals with knowledge and resources to help identify accessibility considerations and better plan cruise and land vacations around each traveler’s individual needs.
Certified Autism Travel Professional™ (CATP)
Certified through the International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards (IBCCES), this designation recognizes travel professionals who have demonstrated knowledge and competency in supporting autistic travelers and their families. Training includes sensory awareness, autism-related travel considerations, accommodations, air travel, cruises, resorts and hotels, and other aspects of the travel experience.
Accessibility Looks Different for Everyone
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to accessible travel. Whether your needs involve mobility, sensory considerations, communication, dietary requirements, medical or mobility equipment, or something else, we’ll start by understanding what matters to you.No two travelers have exactly the same needs. That’s why accessible travel planning starts with understanding you and your mobility, sensory needs, communication preferences, dietary considerations, equipment needs, and the details that can make your trip more comfortable.
What I Can Help With
♿ Mobility & Accessible Accommodations
Researching accessible rooms and cabins, mobility considerations, transfers, accessible routes, and other accommodation needs.
🛳️ Cruise Accessibility
Helping research accessible staterooms, ship accessibility, embarkation considerations, onboard features, and accessibility at ports of call.
🦽 Mobility & Medical Equipment
Helping coordinate rentals and travel needs involving wheelchairs, scooters, lifts, oxygen equipment, and other accessibility equipment when available.
🧩 Autism & Sensory Needs
Considering sensory environments, routines, communication preferences, accommodations, and other needs that can help make travel more comfortable.
🚐 Accessible Transportation & Experiences
Researching accessible transportation, transfers, excursions, attractions, and experiences based on your individual needs.
🍽️ Dietary & Individual Needs
Helping communicate dietary requirements and other individual requests to travel suppliers as part of the planning process.
Accessible Travel, From Personal Experience
As a wheelchair user and traveler myself, I understand that accessibility can shape every part of a trip—from transportation and accommodations to activities and simply getting around a destination.
That lived experience is part of what inspired me to specialize in accessible travel. Combined with my professional training, it helps me approach each trip with an understanding that accessibility isn’t one-size-fits-all. My goal is to listen to what you need, ask the right questions, research your options, and help you plan a trip that works for you.
Accessible Vacations I Can Help You Plan
Accessibility needs shouldn’t limit the type of vacation you can explore. I can help research accessible options across a variety of travel experiences based on your individual needs.
Accessible Cruises
Resorts & Getaways
Theme Park Vacations
Family & Group Travel
Accessibility Considerations
Every traveler’s needs are different. Explore some of the accessibility considerations we can discuss as part of planning your trip.
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Accessible rooms and staterooms, doorway and bathroom features, routes throughout a property or ship, wheelchair and scooter considerations, transfers, and other mobility-related needs.
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Sensory environments, quiet spaces, routines, communication preferences, attraction considerations, and available accommodations or accessibility programs.
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Wheelchairs, scooters, shower chairs, patient lifts, oxygen equipment, and other equipment that may need to be rented, transported, or coordinated for your trip.
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Help planning wheelchair-accessible transportation, including airport transfers, accessible vehicles, cruise-port transportation, and transportation at your destination. I can help identify options that accommodate mobility devices and fit your accessibility needs throughout your trip.
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Planning an accessible cruise involves more than choosing a ship. Beyond the Seas Travel can help with accessible staterooms, wheelchair-friendly transportation, embarkation and disembarkation, accessible shore excursions, tender port considerations, mobility equipment needs, and other cruise-specific accessibility requests.
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Dietary requirements, allergies, service-related requests, and other individual considerations that may affect your travel experience.
Ready to Plan a Trip Around Your Needs?
Accessible travel starts with understanding what matters to you. Tell me about your trip, your accessibility needs, and the experience you’re looking for, and we’ll take it from there.