Trapped in the Royal Palace of Naples?! 🇮🇹♿
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- In Part 2 of my Naples adventure, I’m leaving the MSC cruise ship for a day of exploration, starting with the Royal Palace of Naples.
What starts as an accessible adventure quickly turns into a challenge when I find myself trapped inside!
#AccessibleTravel #Naples #CruiseLife #WheelchairTravel #CruiseAdventure
the little wheelchair sign on the big sign only points to the bathroom.
Getting a ticket makes perfect sense. For building capacity and in case of an emergency - most places that offer free tickets in Europe will give you a ticket upon entry.
I watch your videos here in Brazil and congratulate you on your good humor. Your work is very important for wheelchair users like me, it shows us that traveling is possible for us.
only recently caught on to your channel after seeing a review from another channel... glad you are showing these things... whether its a deeply flawed system or just places that need a few tweaks... inclusion for the millions of people who need it is so important... thank you for doing what you do!
4:40, i agree that sometimes it feels like the disabled paths don't make any sense in old buildings, as an Italian architecture student I've seen some insides of buildings that are so old, and at times there are no sensible spaces to put an accessible route, cutting walls and floors is not so easy, putting ramps (or stair lifts) on existing stairs, sometimes works, other times (like in this grandiose stairs) is not possible, even because they are more of a monument than just stairs.
For the bathrooms being small, and the entrance too at 7:20, I'm sure there were not many other places to put a bathroom in the building, the entrance felt like a corridor bc it's most likely a load-bearing wall. And making the entrance bigger would mean potentially risking the integrity of the structure.
Building accessible paths in building that are hundreds of years old is difficult.
Having said that, in my university courses accessibility is highly taken into account, i don't know if it's because of regulations or just sensibility of the architects, but in conservation projects nowadays it's a must to have an accessible building.
The fact that you can visit a palace built in the 1600s (when wheelchairs did not exist) is already astonishing.
I want to add that, in this moment, I've only written comments in your channel when I've seen something you've said that i feel is not correct or needs more context, but i highly appreciate your content, it gives me a more in depth perspective on the problems you might face. And most of the times i agree, like in some urban projects (even more recent ones) for some reasons curb cuts are not existing, or the small stones used in sidewalks or squares that are annoying.
Just wanted to say that when i write the comments I'm not doing so to undermine your experience, but I'm doing so out of appreciation.
You missed what he is saying. It was the process in place that he was taking about as much as the architecture. They HAD access. But the process to get that access was a mess.
at 5:25 he is saying something on the line of "i have a Gentleman with a wheelchair, I'm sending him to you"
i noticed that translating the phrase it feels possessive, but it's the same as saying "there is a gentleman with a wheelchair he's coming your way"
Apart from the getting stuck thing, it looks like a awesome place to visit
Yup!!! It's super cool.
Doesn't fit
Im amazed at how you keep you humor I wish one day you get a lovely smooth day you seem to have to follow such awkward routes
Take care
What an adventure!
Your videos are so insightful - thank you for taking the time to make them and share with us. They may want you to get a ticket so that they can monitor how many visitors they have, which is needed usually to apply for funding for lots of things. Perhaps one of the ways they could fund better accessibility is to evidence either 1, that they have visitors who have disabilities, or 2, that they don't (and thus evidencing the need to do better). Cultural institutions are so reliant on external funding sources, they have to have ready access to visitor data and a lot of that comes through ticketing :-)
I think the ticket thing is for the statistics so they are eligeble for certain funds from the government.
And in case of fire/emergency they know how many people are in the building, because it looked like you have to scan it to get out.
And i also just thought about maybe so they limit overcrowding.😅
I have never seen the big portable bathrooms😮
It seems like the staff was friendly and trying to help in a respectful way. But i will also wait for the italian transltion😅
yeah, i would also imagine that having the statistic for how many disabled people go in a building, and if they come alone or not could be a main factor in founds to make the building accessible (if not in this building, in others that are not accessible yet)
Your face at: “A Massive staircase”…😄😐
lol I died 😂
You have a lovely happy temperament. It's lovely you see. Xxx
Every time I read the comments I understand how you may feel invisible. People like to find excuses to cities and buildings, because they are free to go everywhere. It's funny that politicians and billionaries expending a lot of tax money doesn't not get people as angry as telling them to make changes in an old building.
“Naples is taking steps to improve wheelchair access” … yes they absolutely are taking steps, taking them away! 😊
1:44 In France (Paris) those are so nasty that I avoid them at all costs 😭
they got the spirit! which is more than other places have. however, they should really make the proccess a little easier and more intuitive. and get their signs right! but seeing how a lot of other places are a literal nightmare, these little annoyances are much better. i hope one day they don’t exist tho!
i love your videos, and keep looking forward to every new one. i really enjoyed that this one was a little longer, too
The building is 400 years old and is now a museum and more. Changing the floorplan to incorporate accessible bathrooms, ramps and lifts would be a BIG reconstruction. Maybe even impossible. What they have is already a lot and I dont think you can resonably ask for more.
Yes, you can, because if it was a bilionaire they would find a way. It's incredible someone say "you can ask for more" when you are talking about a person having the right to move. Hope you never have problems like this so you can enjoy your life
@@samanthaabreu782 I am disabled myself and have trouble with stairs (no wheelchair needed thankfully). I know that pretty much everything is possible, but not with a limited budget and a historic building. You should always be reasonable in your demands. To get a bigger bathroom with enough space for a wheelchair to turn you would need to repurpose a full ROOM in this building, one that already has a funktion and should be preserved in its original beauty. If the toilet is out of order it would be enough to place a sign at the entrance and a portable toilet for a wheelchair close to the building. That would be a resonable demand to make here.
So what you are saying is that disabled people aren't important. Got it.
Have you been ableist long, or is this something new?
@@katringibbins4270 They put in an elevator. They did not have toilets in the 1600's, so they put that in too. It is perfectly reasonable to think they could make it accessible.
@@sdilluminatigrandfounder1813 I know. The building has been made accessible already. Thats a major reconstruction. But the video implies it is still not enough.
THAT is what bothers me. Sure, it is not streamlined and the toilet wasnt working, but for a 400 year old building you cant expect to have a perfect visit in a wheelchair with all modern amenities.
lol i don't think i've ever seen anyone excited about a portapotty. are they rare outside of the US? those are definitely cleaner than what you'll find here.
I’ve seen many ports-loos but never in my life seen a disabled one…
Wow that is shocking, anyplace that has them in the United States has handicap accessible, it would most likely be against the law not to have them@@xxjjcookiexx
@@kirsty8maybe I need to get out more 😂
Yeah, bathrooms are like that in the UK lol
Why do you need a ticket? Probably for statistics when they need it in decision making processes or reporting it organisations.
Accessible spaces designed by people who never have to use them. 🙄
I would love to see you travel in the ubited states. One thing us americans can be proud of is the ada and i feel we are rhe most friendly to people worh disabilities. I just visited the white house to see the holiday decorations with a person in a wheelchair and the entire tour was handicap accessible
Other countries have their version of the ada though and as a country that has very little accessible public transport I'm not sure you can really boast that.
@as_dust_dances certainly we have things to improve on, but in my travels across the United States and many other countries I've noticed that the USA does it better and it's probably because it's been a law in 1990 and I believe the eaa was impacted in 2019. I'm looking forward to a more accessible world for everyone as I have a handicap parent