VISIT WITH CONFIDENCE
As Euan’s Guide is the disabled access review website designed to make it easier for disabled people to find great places to go, we are determined to ensure this remains the case as lockdown measures ease.
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nowing what to expect makes planning a trip so much easier. So many places have been making changes so that they can safely reopen. At Euan’s Guide, we want to do all that we can to make sure information about these changes and venues’ disabled access are easy to find. That’s why we’ve introduced a new feature on our website to enable people to quickly find places to visit where information has been shared on venues’ COVID precautions. To make this feature as useful as possible, we are calling on reviewers to tell us about the places they have visited recently by adding disabled access reviews to our website. We already hold thousands of reviews for all sorts of places, including shops, restaurants, parks and transport hubs. At the same time. we’re also reaching out to venues to get them to update their listings with information on the changes they have put in place.
When leaving a review we ask you to rate the place’s disabled access between 0 and 5 stars. To help make the review more useful we ask you to talk about the venue’s disabled access, how you got there, what the toilets were like and how you found the staff. Now we also ask you to say whether or not you felt ‘COVID Confident’ visiting the venue. This simply means whether or not you were happy with the measures they had put in place. There is then the opportunity to provide more information on the venue’s preventative measures within your review. As our co-founder Euan MacDonald says: “Our reviews are written by and for disabled people. Disabled access reviews are a powerful way of quickly finding new places I can visit. They remove the guesswork and make planning a trip simpler and easier. Reviews are particularly needed right now as venues make changes that could negatively impact on their accessibility. Together we can celebrate the places who prioritise their accessibility and encourage others to make changes to improve their access for everyone.” As Euan mentioned, reviewing on Euan’s Guide not only provides other people with useful information, it is also a great way to provide venues with valuable feedback. We email venues new reviews that they receive, that way they are reading your feedback and can easily find areas where they can improve. We surveyed hundreds of disabled people to find out what their concerns are around places reopening and what precautions they would like to see put in place. Our
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