VIII.
PEURTO LUMBRERAS – PARADOR
On the way from
Parador
de Puerto Lumbreras. Three star.
Avenida Juan Carlos I, 77. Phone
011-34-968-402-025; fax 011-34-968-402-836.
www.parador.es; pto.lumbreras@parador.es.
Access is quite good, especially
considering that the parador is a modest building at a stopover location, not a
destination. Still, a wheelchair user traveling
alone probably would require some assistance.
There is a very good restaurant (try the delicious local specialty
dessert of lightly fried orange leaves with honey and cinnamon). All the employees were extremely
gracious. There is a large parking lot,
and parking is included in the room rate.
The rate is reasonable.
There is one small step at the
entrance. Inside, there are several
stairs and an old stair lift too small for Howard’s wheelchair. So Howard went the long way to our ground floor
room, through the lounge, kitchen and dining room; the kitchen hallway has some
moderately steep slopes that would be difficult without assistance for a person
using a manual wheelchair. Going this
way was only a trivial inconvenience.
The bedroom is relatively large and quite
well designed, with plenty of room to maneuver a wheelchair. The bathroom is very large. There is a
bathtub with many grab bars and a very long shower hose. Best of all: though technically there is no
separate roll-in shower, the main bathroom area has a drain the middle, with
the floor sloped toward the drain. There
is a small wall-hung fold-down bench in the main bathroom area, so clearly it’s
intended that people shower there. There
is plenty of transfer space alongside the toilet and a well placed wall-hung
fold-down grab bar. The sink has a large
area for toiletries. Bathroom access was
better at this parador than in all our hotels except in