Residents and visitors in Rhyl denied the chance to “feel the sand between their toes” have finally been given the opportunity. In what is being billed as a UK-first, wheelchair users can now access the resort’s beach. Last year Denbighshire Council teamed up with seafront business PKS Watersports to provide a “sand-friendly” wheelchair for Rhyl beach.
It was welcomed by disability groups – but they were quick to point out a major flaw: many users were unable to transfer from their wheelchairs to the new beach buggy with its outsized wheels. This week a specialist company donated a mobile hoist to PRK Watersports, enabling wheelchair users to be lifted into the town’s beach wheelchair. Bedfordshire-based Holistic Thinking Holidays (HTH) now intends rolling out hoists to other seaside towns in Britain.
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These are equipped with hospital beds, ceiling hoists and shower chairs to enable disabled people to enjoy seaside holidays. Rhyl was chosen to be first resort to have a.