Testimonials
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Ocean Park
"Ocean Park has always endeavored to be as accessible as possible for visitors with disabilities, so it’s great that this information is now so comprehensive and easy to use thanks to this book. This is definitely the best guide of its kind in Hong Kong."
Allan Zeman, Chairman
Ocean Park and Lan Kwai Fong Holdings Ltd., Hong Kong
World Federation of Occupational Therapists
"Travel is for many people uplifting and rewarding. For many people with disabilities it can be a nightmare and involve pitfalls every step of the journey. Going outside your comfort level for regular traveler can be fraught; for people with disabilities, it can be totally overwhelming. This is soon to change for travelers to Hong Kong.
Sarah Fuller has written the first comprehensive accessible city guide of its kind in Asia. It fills a huge gap in tourist based information on Hong Kong for people traveling with a disability. This unique comprehensive guide assists people with disabilities to meet the challenges of planning a trip, traveling to Hong Kong, arriving and getting around. It takes the traveler step by step through the necessary process and procedures to travel safely and enjoy the sights on the way. It describes wheelchair friendly and unfriendly places—airport and tourist sites, shopping and museums, markets, dining—and offers manageable day trips around the territory.
From the viewpoint of health care professionals, the Wheel Away City Guide is groundbreaking for Asia. Yes, we have had access guides for Hong Kong in the past. In fact, my occupational therapy students have taken to the streets, the MTR, the busses in wheelchairs to evaluate access as part of their assignments. Charts have been devised to answer questions of access, building by building. But in a fully new approach, Sarah Fuller has taken a positive stance of “You can do it. I will help you be prepared… Reach beyond the limits your condition imposes on you and do it,” she says. A diverse action-packed itinerary is possible and Sarah Fuller has made it achievable."
Kit Sinclair, PhD,
Occupational Therapist
Fellow, World Federation of Occupational Therapists
Langham Hotels International
"Travelling is one of the greatest pleasures in life. While most of us take it for granted, the disabled audience remains underserved which Sarah Fuller addresses with a passion.
Hong Kong and indeed many of the world’s major cities presents their fair share of challenges to the disabled traveller. However, Sarah has painstakingly researched an English travel guide that is carefully thought through, easy to navigate and contains every detail you need to know to make visiting this wonderful city hassle free.
Sarah’s passion for travel clearly comes through and showcases many of Hong Kong’s finest points - both on and off the beaten track. Bravo!"
Brett Butcher, Chief Executive Officer
Langham Hotels International
The Nesbitt Center
"I would like to add my name to the growing list of those complimenting your excellent publication, which assists the disabled to navigate Hong Kong, particularly in a wheelchair. Your sections on hotels and restaurants, plus how to use the MTR and other forms of transport in Hong Kong, are excellent.
As the founder of a Centre for Special Needs young adults, several of whom are in wheelchairs, and several more who require assistance for walking, your publication opens up a large number of avenues.
What a positive impact for the Hong Kong community to have your book, and thanks for all the research and hard work put into the “pocket-sized” book! I hope all disabled travelers who come to Hong Kong will find your publication, and patronize the locations which provide good access for them. I also hope that Hong Kong residents will be able to discover the book, to make their lives in the city easier."
David Nesbitt, Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors
The Nesbitt Centre, Hong Kong
Community Business
"I congratulate Sarah on the publication of Wheel Away Disabled Travel – a milestone project in making Hong Kong accessible for visitors with disabilities. When I first met Sarah I was impressed by her passion and personal commitment to this endeavour and am delighted to see this publication come to fruition. At Community Business we work with companies to encourage them to create inclusive workplaces that enable all – including people with disabilities, to contribute to their full potential. But it is also about creating an inclusive society and responding to customer needs. I hope that in highlighting the places and services that address the needs of people with disabilities, many other organisations in Hong Kong will be encouraged to follow suit."
Shalini Mahtani, Founder
Community Business, Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation
"For travelers with disability, pre-trip planning is critical and knowing how and where to get information regarding accessibility of the place of visit is crucial. Sarah’s “Wheel Away Disabled Travel – Hong Kong” is a comprehensive practical guide on where to stay, where to go, where to eat and how to get around plus more. It will enable travelers in wheelchairs to enjoy Hong Kong independently with confidence and dignity.
Sarah’s firsthand experience of traveling with her father who uses a wheelchair also provides the reader with a down to earth view point in balancing realistic expectations and the fun of traveling in a wheelchair in Hong Kong. Apart from that, the book originated from and contains the heart and loving care of a daughter who wished her father the best of his stay in Hong Kong. I congratulate Sarah for her effort and devotion to promoting accessible tourism."
Mabel Chau, Chief Executive Officer
The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation
Asia Television (ATV) Hong Kong
"‘Wheel Away Disabled Travel - Hong Kong City Guide’ is an impressive, thoroughly researched and extremely useful resource. What makes it particularly attractive is the personal tone and hands-on approach of the author. She has obviously been there and done that so many times, and knows exactly what information a disabled traveller needs - from the dimensions of a hotel room bathroom, to the locations of accessible train exits. The guide opened my mind to just how difficult it can be if you are confined to a wheelchair; but also how, armed with detailed and accurate of information, a trip can be hassle-free and enjoyable. This resource would be great for anyone with a disability who is planning to come to Hong Kong; but also for locals who have struggled to find practical information about getting around their own city."
Kumi Taguchi, Editor ‘Inside Story’
Asia Television Ltd.
Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK)
"Sarah Fuller has drawn on her family circumstances and 17 years spent in Hong Kong to produce a clear and comprehensive guide to the city. While primarily aimed at visitors who use a wheelchair, the book will also serve as a hugely valuable reference for others with a disability, and their carers.
A committed traveller, she has visited many places in the company of her father, who is in a wheelchair himself. In this guidebook, she provides a wealth of detailed advice and specialized information on sightseeing, transport, hotels, and anything else that the visitor will need to know. More than 100 hotels are assessed from the viewpoint of guests with a disability, accompanied by a checklist of facilities for each. All forms of public transport and the major MTR stations are thoroughly examined for disabled access, as are all the principal visitor attractions.
This highly detailed yet easy-to-use guidebook should prove immensely useful to any wheelchair user, or any other disabled visitor, who wants to experience the excitement and explore the sights of this vibrant city."
Jim Gould, Producer
Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK)
Ken Deayton, JP
"Having lived in Hong Kong for almost 35 years, I categorically endorse the accuracy of Sarah’s enumeration of the positives and negatives of the City for the overseas visitor. Having twice during this period of residence been fully dependent on crutches for self propulsion over extended periods of time, I can also both endorse her evocation of the unique challenges Hong Kong presents to the non-ambulatory traveller, and commend her on the production of a long overdue addition to the “visit HK” literature.
It is estimated that sporting injuries alone (a category into which both of my own “indispositions” fall) account for over one hundred ambulatory impairments per month in HK. This book should be a prescribed manual for all such victims, and would have been of immense help to me in my time of this particular need, had it been available at that time.
An additional bonus is the plethora of helpful tips to all first time visitors to the Territory, a reflection of the level of attention to detail this nearly twenty year Hong Kong resident is able to bring to bear."
Ken Deayton, JP
The Australian Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong
"Those of us that live in this remarkable city know that Hong Kong is more a journey than a destination; one that is now truly accessible to those who may have missed it before this meaningful new guide was published."
Deborah Biber, Chief Executive
The Australian Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong
ipac Financial Planning Hong Kong
"Wheel Away returns Hong Kong to the list of exciting, and manageable, destinations for disabled travellers. Practical advice for reducing hassle and maximising pleasure!"
Melanie Nutbeam
Director, International Financial Planning
ipac financial planning HK Ltd
Talkback Association for Aphasia, South Australia
"This is a wonderful resource for people with disability and their families – it has the potential to open doors, get people back on planes and back on holiday. Its author, Sarah Fuller, draws on her own experience of accompanying her father, who is in a wheelchair and has aphasia (communication impairment) following his stroke, and her mother (also a caregiver to her husband) on their holidays in Hong Kong. Having lived there for 17 years, Sarah has been able to draw on an immense depth of experience of the region. She shares that experience and knowledge through this book with the aim of guiding others, particularly those who have physical disabilities and who are in wheelchairs, but also for those with hearing and visual impairment, to discover the wonders of Hong Kong.
Sarah’s style is highly readable and very clear. Her book starts with an important section on the planning required before the trip and then moves to getting around, places to stay, sights to see, dining out, and options for day trips. Throughout these chapters, there is a remarkable level of detail based on very careful research. Examples of this include aspects that might easily be forgotten: what to do with luggage between checking out of a hotel and catching a flight; how to find wheelchair accessible taxis and how many other people can fit in them; knowing whether a bus stop is near an accessible entrance to a hotel or not; whether or not a particular restaurant has a disabled toilet. Sarah has checked hotels in order to find out if their ‘disability rooms’ are really disability friendly, how wide the doors are, what hand rails are fitted in the toilets and bathrooms, what the lifts are like to the different floors, and so on. She has explored an extensive range of hotels, restaurants and sightseeing options and done much of the ground work which helps to make the difference between a disastrous or stressful trip and a highly successful and rewarding one.
I would strongly recommend this book and await more from this author on other locations for the disabled traveller."
Dr Deborah Hersh, FSPAA, CPSP
Speech Pathologist and Chairperson
Talkback Association for Aphasia, Inc., Adelaide, South Australia
Dr. Denes Marantos
"At the age of 50 Clive Fuller suffered a massive stroke complicated by a secondary intracranial bleed and epilepsy. He survived to be left with no movement in his right arm, spastic paralysis of his right leg and an expressive dysphasia severely impairing verbal communication. However with the support of his family, particularly his wife Carol, he was able to overcome post stroke depression and with admirable determination apply himself to rehabilitation.
Clive has become very adept at non verbal communication, learning to walk with a splint and quadrapod, achieving independence with most activities. His self confidence improved so that nine years after his stroke he was able to visit Singapore, a retirement wish. Clive was bitten by the travel bug and is now planning his third visit to Hong Kong!
I have been Clive’s Physician since his stroke, initially delivering a poor prognosis to Carol and the family, not only for survival but for a return of reasonable function. I did not allow for their intense will, appetite for hard work, and desire not to allow disability to interfere with their lives. Clive and Carol are an inspiration and an example that significant disability is not a bar to living ones dreams."
Dr. Denes Marantos
Adelaide, South Australia
Bev Dodd, Speech Pathologist
"Wheel Away Disabled Travel provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to planning and experiencing a holiday in Hong Kong, to meet the needs of individuals with a disability and their carers. This guide has been thoroughly researched and provides information on everything the traveller with a disability needs to know to access what Hong Kong has to offer – from fine dining, to accommodation, to travel, to the must see sights. Sarah’s own experience travelling with her father in a wheelchair are reflected in the meticulous detail provided in all sections of the guide. Truly a useful guide."
Bev Dodd, Speech Pathologist
Adelaide, South Australia
University of Arizona
"Sarah Fuller has written an easy-to-read, candid, comprehensive and authoritative book. It’s sure to guarantee Hong Kong’s accessibility to people who use wheelchairs or require other services for the disabled. It is a treasure chest of information and useful facts that will be useful to accompanying others as well. Sarah’s inclusionary principles apply to travel in general, not simply to and in Hong Kong. This book must be a model for inclusionary travel books for other places!"
Audrey Holland, Ph.D., Regents Professor Emerita
University of Arizona, United States of America
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