Hotel bed height and transfers

[Sheri]

I’m only a few years in with lateral transfers. I use a board into sedan but not around the house. I deliberately got an adjustable bed so as to skip the boxspring and yield a bed height of about 22”. I scoot across onto commode then into bed. I had a horrible time going out in a Subaru Forester one night (I think 26-27” ground to seat top) and won’t be doing that again.

I’m now getting ready to travel and realize that all beds are way higher than mine. Our friends invited us for Thanksgiving and their guest bed is 30”! Hotel beds all look to be very thick mattresses sitting on a platform. I once stayed in a motel where they temporarily removed the boxspring for me. This afternoon I asked an Airbnb host whether we can remove the boxspring and he suddenly stopped answering my questions. What do you do?

[triumph]

I think there's a saying about not asking "permission", just do it. It's not covered under ADA, unfortunately.

[NoobisMaximus]

I stayed in a hotel that was supposedly wheelchair accessible but the bed was super high . I asked them to remove the frame which brought the bed down to wheelchair hight. The oh Airbnb I stayed bat had a pretty low bed . I guess you just have to find Airbnb with low beds or ask them like you did . If they don't respond just move on to a next one it's their loss