Ali Ingersoll

Review of Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa

We stayed at the Grove Park Inn for our honeymoon ...

We stayed at the Grove Park Inn for our honeymoon for five nights. We originally had hey handicap regular room with a roll-in shower, which was a very small room, and not particularly accessible despite stating it was ada.

The bed was quite high, the shower was quite small even though it was a rolling, the thermostat was too high, and there was not much room to roll around.

We were then upgraded to a club floor suite, for more money of course, but the space was unbelievable. However, it was not Ada specific at all, but I have a husband who made it work and we got creative. If you are alone in a wheelchair I definitely cannot recommend the club floor rooms, but if you have someone to help you or help lift you, it is completely worth. It.

well the club floor is much more expensive you have a private floor with full access to the pool spas every single day, which is a great value-for-money, complimentary breakfast, complimentary hors d'oeuvres, free parking, and complimentary drinks from 5 to 7 p.m. every night. The upgrade fee for the room literally pays for itself. The concierge staff are beyond helpful and will help you plan anything you need. It was definitely a five-star visit on a beautiful property.

however, if you are in a wheelchair or disabled you do need to consider that this is it old property. It's not that they are trying to make things and accessible, but there are so many beautiful areas to check out, stairs to climb, and little nookss to explore that are simply not accessible, and there's no way around that.

the upgraded hotel did the best they could considering this is and iconic historic building. So, if you want to have a completely accessible hotel, you might have a problem here, but the hotel makes up for it and service, willingness to help,

However, I will make a note on the spa. I'm not quite sure there's a way around this, but the spies definitely not very accessible depending on your level of injury. If you are a paraplegic and only paralyzed from the chest down you can use the women's locker room alone and they do have portable spas to get you in the pool albeit slightly challenging.

However, if you are disabled and need the help of another person as I did on our honeymoon with my husband then you are kind of out of luck. I was unable to access the women's locker room because I cannot do things for myself and my husband could not help me. this makes things a little bit challenging, but if you have a strong man or woman or person to just lift you from pool to pool it's doable, but very challenging to be honest. it's still did not stop us from having the best time possible and making do with the situation :)

I can't imagine many wheelchair goers attempt the spa.