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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

Disabled woman forced to sleep in hotel dining area ‘after booked room was unavailable’

Kat Watkins
Kat Watkins had booked an accessible twin bedded room at the hotel for herself and her PA, but was told after arriving it was ‘out of order’. Photograph: Kat Watkins

A disabled wheelchair user who requires a ventilator at night had to sleep on a sofa in a hotel dining room because the accessible room she booked was not available.

Kat Watkins, 36, a UN convention on the rights of disabled people development officer at Disability Wales, who has brittle bone disease and sleep apnoea, said she is suffering from severe back pain as a result of not being able to sleep in the bed she had booked and paid for at a Travelodge hotel in Hounslow.

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