Invalid Buggies on Coaches

[shylock73]

Can anyone inform me if coaches will carry the small invalid buggies that dismantle into 4 pieces and fit into a car boot. This will be for travelling in GB

[Dee Sa]

yes if they fold down. I take a lady in a wheelchair, she can get on the bus slowly and the driver takes the wheelchair and folds it and it goes in the luggage hold.
It might be wise to check with the bus company, if you are travelling from Victoria coach station there is a special waiting room for the disabled and you board first.

[shylock73]

Thankyou Dee, but my buggie is the small electric type that you see around everywhere. I have a wheel chair also but it`s not fair for the wife to push me everywhere. It`s for going on holiday tours on coaches. I used to be a coach driver years ago but they were`nt invented in my day. Cheers `Drive`

[Ethel]

Contact the tour operator, shylock. Each company will have its own policy.

[Dee Sa]

I hope you find a solution, and I know what you mean about not being fair to let your wife push you, I push a 14 stone lady around for a week on her holiday and she hasnt a clue how tiring it is[ bless her].
Airlines must allow you to take these because I saw 2 Brit ladies on theirs whizzing around Candolim in Goa last year, and my pal in San Jose.USA has taken hers to Las Vegas on the plane.
Happy holiday
Dee

[shylock73]

Thanks Dee Sa. My poor wife has been pushing me (15st) around and she is only 8st so your can understand why I got a mobility buggy. We hope to go to the Flower Show in Spaldon Lincs this year where it`s nice and flat.

[leg_end758]

here in tenerife coach companies let you but you must load it into the storage underneath yourself.drivers arent insured against injury loading it.otherwise its ok.i guess its same in the uk.