The Grand Hotel Reykjavik provided their award winning service to this year’s record-breaking paralympic athletes at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships held between 18th-24th October. Collectively, 24 world records and 73 European records were smashed over the course of the seven-day event.
This has not been the first time the Grand Hotel Reykjavik has seen gold. Since it’s opening in 1995, the national federation for physically disabled people in Iceland, Sjalfsbjorg, awarded the Grand Hotel for its excellent wheelchair accessibility and facilities.
Boasting fifteen handicap friendly guest rooms, the Grand Hotel provides it’s guests the highest of sophistication and comfort suitable for a record-breaker. Each barrier-free room spans up to 30 M2 ergonomically designed with the visitor in mind. These accessible guest rooms are located between the 2nd and 13th floors; with a metre wide elevator allowing unrestricted freedom and ease to all amenities the hotel has to offer.
Guests can also enjoy the first-class a la Carte restaurant, Brasserie Grand, claming to offer a varied menu to suit everyone. The hotel’s world-class chefs offer traditional Icelandic delights as well as mouth-watering international cuisine satisfactory for any winner.
Grand Hotel Reykjavik is one of Reykjavik Hotels three excellent choices of accommodation in Reykjavik.
To view photos and floor plans of the wheelchair accessible rooms, visit the website www.grand.is
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15 wheelchair accessible rooms is actually quite amazing. I’m also impressed that you have a 13th floor ;)