Information

What options are there on Kauai for people with disabilities

TRANSPORTATION

Van Rentals: Kauai Center for Independent Living (KCIL): 808-245-4034 Lift Equipped Van Rentals with (must take driver): $50/hour per person or $100 per person up to 4 hours or $180 per person full day up to 8 hours (currently not available)

Public Transportation: It costs $2.00 (effective July 1, 2009) to ride The Kauai Bus from point to point. This information can be confirmed at http://www.kauai.gov/bus. All buses are lift equipped on Kauai. Paratransit is available within 24 hours of notice M-F. Call The Kauai Bus Transportation Agency at 808-241-6410 or email thekauaibus@kauai.gov to make bus arrangements and for bus schedule information.

Parking Placards: Visitors who have accessible parking placards from their respective states should bring them to Kauai. It is not possible to get an accessible parking placard once you are here. Bring your placard!

Portable Ramps: On Kauai there are no car rental agencies who have lift equipped vehicles. Gammie Home Care (808-632-2333) (gammie.com) rents portable ramps, wheelchairs, and other equipment. Some people rent a van and use a portable ramp to access the back seat, in some vans the entire middle seat can be removed to accommodate people who use motorized wheelchairs. Ask if an entire seat can be removed when you are talking with the car rental agencies.

LODGING

Bed & Breakfast:
Bed and Breakfast Hawaii: 800-733-1632
Bed and Breakfast Kauai: 800-822-1176
Victoria’s Place: 808-332-9300

Hotels:
Hotels are required to be accessible under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). People with disabilities should make clear what types of supports they will need (facility access: ground floor, railings in bath tub, shower chair, etc., communication access - TTY machine, computer, etc.) and hotels are required to provide such accommodations. Contact individual properties and ask them if they are accessible, ask specific questions about access requirements you personally need. In Poipu try this web site: http://www.poipubeach.org

Condos:
South-shore:
Kiahuna Plantation Resort 808-742-2200
Embassy Vacation Resort, Poipu Point 808-742-1888
Nihi Kai Villas 808-742-1412
Poipu Kapili 808-742-8886

DINING
Restaurants are supposed to be accessible but Kauai has several restaurants that are on a second floor or have poor access to the entry. Call restaurants before going to make sure you can get in! Usually the restaurants in Hotels are accessible.

RECREATION
Accessible Beach Parks:
Kauai County provides a Landeez all-terrain wheelchair at lifeguard stations at Poipu Beach Park, Lydgate Beach Park and Salt Pond Beach Park. The Landeez chair is able to go over sand and be close to the water's edge. The above mentioned parks have accessible parking, pathways, pavilions, restrooms, showers, and Landeez chairs. Visitors and residents need to ask the lifeguards for usage of the landeez chair, the chairs remain at the beaches. For more information about the landeez beach chairs a person could call Kauai Parks & Recreation, Bernard Carvalho, at 808-241-6648.

There are several beaches that are not as accessible as the parks mentioned above but they have flat parking lots and shoreline views.

Accessible County Boat Harbors: Kukuiula Boat Harbor (south shore - before Spouting Horn) has accessible parking, restrooms, and a pavilion for picnicking with great surrounding views of ocean activity.

State Boat Harbors include Port Allan Boat Harbor (Eleele - going west), Nawiliwili Boat Harbor / Coastguard (Lihue - east)

Activities
Some companies make a special effort to provide access: Greg Winston at Water-sports Adventures 808-821-1599
Chuck Blay of Kauai Nature Tours 888-233-8365, and Debra Hookano at Liko Kauai Cruises 808-338-0333.

Equipment Rental
Some people choose not to send their expensive wheelchairs through the airlines and opt to rent a wheelchair once they get to Kauai. For rental of wheelchairs, including Landeez chairs and portable ramps, other equipment, and helpful island advice, call Clyde Silva at Gammie Home Care (808-632-2333 www.gammie.com).

Talk with Christina Pilkington, ADA Coordinator's Office (mayorsada@kauai.gov, or 808-241-6203 (V/TTY).

Gammie Home Care: For rental of equipment, including a Landeez chair, and
helpful island advice call Clyde at Gammie Home Care (Lihue, 632-2333 or
888-540-4032 gammie.com)

A very good State resource is the Disability and Communication Access Board (DCAB)
808-586-8121. They co-produced the Aloha Guide to Accessibility which provides
information about airports and ground transportation. check the State information web site: http://www.state.hi.us/health/dcab
mayorsada@kauai.gov regarding access on Kauai.

ASL INTERPRETER
Robert Revel, Home: 808-332-0830 (V), Work 808-241-3578 (V)

Larry Littleton
Email: LittletonL@aol.com
Pager: LittletonL@tmail.com
Msg: (877) 467-4877 Ext 10010
Phone: 241-1386