Accessible Hotels, B&Bs Farmhouses and Self Catering Accommodation throughout the UK. Holiday Care receives more than 80,000 enquiries a year about accessible tourism facilities. Many of these are about accommodation. Working with Britain’s national and regional tourist boards, Holiday Care is accredited to inspect accommodation in the UK against Tourism for All National Accessible Scheme (NAS) standards.

These were originally drawn up in 1993 but have been revised by the English Tourism Council (now VisitBritain) working with the other national boards, the Tourism for All Consortium and Holiday Care to incorporate the needs of people with sensory impairment, as well as those with physical disabilities. The new standards were introduced in 2002.

Holiday Care has a composite database of all UK accommodation (hotels, B&Bs and self-catering) inspected under the 1993 scheme, which still gives a useful indication of the accessibility of establishments for wheelchair users. This information is produced in a series of Regional Information Guides –click here for our Publications Order Form.

During 2002 the national and regional tourist boards and Holiday Care began inspections against the new NAS standards. We will be compiling a database based on these entries during 2003.

Accommodation Booking
Apart from providing information about accessible accommodation in the UK, we also operate a booking service for our members, the Friends of Holiday Care. Our Friends Unit has details of hundreds of hotels offering accessible accommodation, often at special Friends' rates.

Overseas Accommodation
Holiday Care’s overseas information guides identify accommodation which we believe to be accessible based on information received. However, we are not able to inspect overseas accommodation.

For an example of an overseas Information Guide please click Austria