Best Punta Cana Wheelchair Accessible Resorts

Accessible tourism ensures that tourism environments, products, and services can be enjoyed on equal terms by any person, with or without motor physical disability.

In the Dominican Republic and Punta Cana, this type of tourism is a relatively new market and with many paradigms that break.

Every year tens of thousands of tourists arrive in Punta Cana with disabilities or medical limitations, but the tourism sector has been innovating on this issue and some of the hotels have facilities that adapt to these people.

Because the vast majority of beaches in Punta Cana have a blue flag category, these beaches are properly enabled with facilities for disabled people.

This certification guarantees that these beaches offer accessibility and enjoyment to people with disabilities.

The beaches have information posters that tell you what you can do and what you cannot do, they have access ramps to the beach.

They indicate where you can bathe, where the water sports area is, a schedule for rescue personnel, where the facilities are accessible bathrooms, excellent water quality, an area reserved for people with disabilities, and a large one for an amphibious chair to enter the beach.

All these adaptations seek to make everyone feel adapted and not feel excluded.

Tour operators are also taking into account all these facilities in excursions, there are a variety of aquatic excursions where a person with physical disabilities can participate without any problem with the assistance provided.

Apart from these facilities included in the beaches and hotels of Punta Cana, there are specialized companies that provide services from the same hotels, such as rental of wheelchairs, Walkers Aids, scooters, Bath Aids, Medical Oxygen and more.

If you are interested in choosing a beach that is friendly for people in wheelchairs or with some other physical disability in Punta Cana, it is very important to choose hotels that are located on beaches with a blue flag category.

The following beach segments are those that have a blue flag category, attached to their hotel complex, it is important to take into account that every year they make an effort to add more beaches with this category throughout the country.

The following hotels, apart from having segments of beaches with blue flag category, also have internal facilities for people with disabilities, in addition to affiliated companies that are especially dedicated to the care and rental of special equipment such as wheelchairs, scooters, oxygen tanks, special chairs, 3-wheelers and much more.