Sheraton Baltimore Washington Airport - BWI

1100 Old Elkridge Landing Road

Linthicum Heights

MD 21090

USA

http://www.sheratonbwiairport.com/

This review focuses on the wheelchair accessible aspects of this hotel. Refer to tripadvisor for information about other aspects of the hotel. In summary, the room I had was unwelcoming for a wheelchair user. Not recommended.  

There is ample free handicapped parking spots, and access to the lobby is completely level through automatic sliding doors. The restaurant and bar are all on the lobby area and easily accessible. 

My room was on the 3rd floor and had two queen beds and a roll-in shower.  It was some distance from the elevator, and a tough push over deep pile carpet.  There was adequate space to get around the room to the window and, just barely, between the two beds.  The TV remote was left in easy reach and the wall mounted A/C controls were easy to operate comfortably from a chair. 

The closet was easy to access but the hang rails were too high to reach from a wheelchair making it impossible to hang shirts.  The work desk was pretty small but usable. The window shades were difficult to close from a wheelchair because the line was behind the work desk and out of reach.  The bed was not as high as some - about  two inches above my wheelchair cushion level - but still made transferring difficult. The room lights were not controllable from the bed, so remember to turn them off before you get in. 

The bathroom was  large. The toilet was easy to access for anything from a 0 to 180 degree transfers but the grab rails were mounted too high to be of any use and the toilet itself had a cheap and wobbly toilet seat that offered little purchase for transferring.  Dangerous. There was plenty of room under the sink for knees. The shower had no wall mounted seat but guest services can provide you with a free standing shower seat on request. There was a hand held shower hose mounted on a rail and a fixed wall mounted shower hose.  The towels were left on a few shelves mounted high on the wall behind the toilet. Had I not been travelling with a walkie it would have been impossible to get them after my shower. The hand towels were reachable from a wheelchair but not the bath towels.  

The room was in need of a face lift and with the various small frustrations such as the useless closet and the badly designed bathroom it did not come up to the standards of modern handicapped accessible rooms. I will not be staying there again - not recommended.