Taylor Tour Wheelchair Accessible?

[510picker]

I figured I would post this here since so many of you recently visited the factory. My question is exactly what he title says, is the tour wheelchair accessible?

To clarify things a little: I use a wheelchair because of a spinal cord injury. I can walk some, but very slowly. I can climb stairs without assistance. I thought I read somewhere that part of the tour involved stairs. I can climb them as long as I have someone with me to carry my chair up for me (usually my wonderful wife does this for me).

I was just curious because I would love to visit and take the tour. I also realize that I could send Taylor a e-mail and ask them directly, but I thought I would just ask my friends first.

Thanks!

[rsimper]

The only part I remember having stairs was to the classroom and side bending room...of these two, the side bending room is the only one that you would go to on the regular tour...its one flight of maybe 30 stairs...Other than that, its all on the factory floor.

[buddiesorg]

I once went on the tour with a person in a wheelchair. I don't remember the person not being able to go anywhere. There is one part of the tour that some tour guides go into that requires going up stairs (side bending), but that's not always part of the tour.

[TimB]

My wife is disabled too and requires a wheelchair so this is always on my mind.

Mary has it exactly right. Everything but the bending piece and I didn't get that on my non-TGF tour.

-=Tim=-

[510picker]

Originally posted by TimBarwick
My wife is disabled too and requires a wheelchair so this is always on my mind.

Thanks for the info! Nobody really understands the needs of someone in a wheelchair unless they or someone they are close to uses one so Tim's comments mean alot.

Taylorstock '03 or bust! I think that sounds like a good signature.

[Mike A.]

Mary,

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought that the big grey thing next to the stairs up to the side-bending/body molds room was an elevator. I could be wrong, but I think it's California building code that factory floors be completely wheelchair accessible, including multiple floors.

I'm pretty sure that there's also an elevator next to the reception desk in the same building next to the room where we put our guitars during Taylorstock.

-Mike A.

[buddiesorg]

Mike, you're probably right ... I've never looked for elevators at Taylor ... I didn't even notice the elevator in the new building until TaylorStock! On the day I went on the tour with the person in the wheelchair, we had a tour guide that doesn't go up to side bending, so I didn't give it a second thought.