Booking Hotel Accessible rooms

My mother-in-law had a shower chair at home after her stroke.
She could be wheeled in (like in a wheelchair) and found this easier than moving about within the shower - but who in their right mind would take their usual wheelchair into a shower???
Some of these are £1000 or more!

Totally agree…couldn’t believe the customer service relations manager when she said this….am feeling guilty that I m complaining about this when my daughter had done her research but now 2days with me standing and top and tailing

We stayed here with my mother-in-law once for a wedding:
burnhambeecheshotel.com/

It was before her stroke so I wasn't looking for grab rails. She was 100 though and traveling all day to get there so we booked a disability friendly room. It was very spacious and had seats in the shower. We paid the same price as we did for our room.
The staff were all lovely.

I called them to discuss what she needed - not far to walk after a long journey, no steps, somewhere to sit that wasn't the bed... I spoke to people at the actual hotel, not the booking line.

I wouldn't hesitate to go back.
Obviously her needs (in retrospect) were minimal (how little I knew) but I wanted her to have a really lovely stay.
From memory I think the shower had two different types in it.

I booked an accessible room at Milton Keynes Premier Inn a few years ago and it was a complete joke! the only accessible aspect of the room was the wider door leading to the bathroom where there was NO accessible shower - just a regular shower over the bath! The bed was so close to the wall that my wheelchair wouldn’t fit alongside for me to transfer to the bed. The corridors from reception were very narrow and trying together through the room door took several attempts. There was a wheelchair lift to the restaurant……..which didn’t work! And no doors were automatically operated…….they all had to be pulled or pushed manually……try doing that when sitting in a wheelchair!

Bea65 - surely if they expected you to wheel in they should provide a shower chair!

I would write to whoever owns it and tell them how much this is NOT a treat!
Your poor daughter too.

Accessible or not most hotels dont have grab rails if the shower is over the bath it that can make it quite difficult when the bath is higher than the floor, it's such an easy addition.

We have had accessible rooms and I dont remember seats its so easily and cheaply provided