Looks like I’m spending the night sleeping in the reception of @TravelodgeUK London Farringdon.

The ‘accessible’ room booked wasn’t accessible. I couldn’t even get my wheelchair through the door and it wasn’t an adapted room. @TravelodgeUK couldn’t care less. #AbleismSucks

— Bethany Handley (@Bethany1Handley) September 26, 2023

Update: I spent a few hours in reception feeling awful (I’m in London for a hospital admission) before the manager came out to say we should just accept the inaccessible room as access “doesn’t matter” or we could go to the other side of London.

— Bethany Handley (@Bethany1Handley) September 27, 2023

Thankfully I was with a family member who was able to go out frantically searching for another hotel in the night as @TravelodgeUK failed to find us somewhere suitable. We had to pay a fortune for an accessible room.

— Bethany Handley (@Bethany1Handley) September 27, 2023

On Radio 4’s Saturday Live, writer & disabled activist alumna @Bethany1Handley reads her poetry in the latest Nature feature on @BBC_Saturday with @nikkibedi
?Great to see our alumni making a difference. Dai iawn, Bethany! ?
[47 mins] https://t.co/GzlbD7ENBw @CardiffAlumni pic.twitter.com/CVcWuFo4TR

— CUEnglishCommPhilos (@CUEngCommPhilos) August 30, 2023