When you enter Barney’s Place you’ll discover it has been thoughtfully designed to provide a very comfortable family and disability home, from a large roll-in shower room to the customized kitchen with a gas stove top, electric oven, side-by-side fridge with ice maker, and dishwasher with full wheelchair access & open plan living area. Additional facilities at Barney’s Place include a swimming pool and spa with chair lifts, ramps with handrails, and many other features to make wheelchair accessible & family holidays a breeze.
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Barney’s Place Gold Coast is a modern contemporary styled home featuring a living area with a large leather lounge suite and home entertainment system complete with a 50″ plasma TV with Foxtel (cable TV). Barney’s Place also has a privacy curtain that can be drawn to turn the living area into a theatre media room/extra bedroom.
The family kitchen area flows onto an expansive covered entertainment deck with a lounge, dining, TV, and heated spa. From the deck, you have water and city skyline views along with access via stairs down to a little private sandy beach area where you can fish or just soak up the sun. There are 3 bedrooms all with their own heating/cooling systems and LCD TV, the main bedroom has a King size bed with deck access and water views, the second bedroom includes Queen size bed with 2 King single beds with privacy curtain perfect for the kids hangout, bedroom 3 comes with an electric inclining king single bed that can be lowered and raised this room has direct access to a roll in shower/toilet room. (All beds have clearances of 150mm to accommodate lifting hoist)
There are 2 bathrooms, 1 of which caters to people with a disability or wheelchair dependence, the bathroom has a roll-in shower, and fold-down shower seat a mobile shower commode, an Australian Standard accessible toilet, and rails with an excellent turning circle.
There is even a wheelchair accessible Toyota van with a hoist and dual sliding doors which is available for hire.
Many guests have found Barney’s to be perfect and here is what one had to say: “Dad is a man of few words following his stroke but managed a heartfelt ‘fantastic’ when he arrived at Barney’s Place. It’s been wonderful for Dad in his wheelchair and everyone has enjoyed the pool, spa, and dinners on the deck. Thanks for a great stay!” (Mulloy Family London UK).
HINT ……..FOR ROAD TRAVEL IN AUSTRALIA.
Travelling from Brisbane Queensland to Melbourne Victoria I found that best place for toilet breaks was going to MacDonald or hungry jacks to use their disabled wash rooms which on the whole were clean and set up properly with easy access etc.
The state governments also have a site to access all the public toilets.
Great tip! Thank you.