Accessible Tourism

Barcelona has made great strides in making it easy for chair users to visit. Kerbs are low. Nearly all museums and sights are accessible; all buses as well as the airport buses and metro and beaches. Disabled toilets are thin on the ground in restaurants and bars, however. the city’s Meet Barcelona website is helpful.

Alternatively, let someone else do all the logistics work. Barcelona Enabled is a private English-speaking company that can arrange and advise on transfers, hotels equipped according to your needs, restaurants and numerous activities from city tours to sailing to wine tasting, tours of Camp Nou and can arrange for home help during a holiday.

Cosmoscooter, Passatge Maiol 1 (near Sagrada Familia), +34 93 321 11 24 or mobile +34 690 845 573, offers electric scooters and chairs for touring the city (about €25 a day, minimum rentals 3 days). They will deliver them anywhere in the metropolitan area, including the cruise ship terminal.