Overview

This is a truly delightful visit for disabled, as it’s wheelchair friendly throughout, care has been given to make sure you can enjoy the site for whatever appeals to you that day. Almost 20 years ago, work started to redeveloped the old Marina, situated on the Trent and Mersey canal, just outside of Burton on Trent, and from 1994 to 1997, 1.3 million tons of sand and gravel were excavated to form the new Marina and two fishing lakes, and the lakes offer wonderful walking areas that disabled can enjoy as well, as the paths around the main duck ponds have been laid so that wheelchairs can cope, and seating areas have been provided if a break is needed. 13 retail shops and a garden centre overlook the Marina, which offers mooring for 300 barges, and all of it is well maintained and attractive. The shops are nice small outlets, offering all sorts of interesting, and reasonable priced goods, and each little shop has made sure that wheelchairs can safely move around as you enjoy browsing their selection. Do visit the Waterfront restaurant, ( which we offer you a separate review) as it’s not only an ideal coffee or lunch venue, but it’s so clean and attractive, with disabled toilet available. OUR FINAL THOUGHTS If you get the chance, you must visit, you certainly won’t be disappointed, it’s got character and charm, we personally fully enjoyed our visit, the shops were fascinating to browse through, all good quality nice items on sale, very appealing outlets with friendly helpful staff. The Marina itself is attractive with all the barges, easy to walk around, and on a nice sunny day it would be a treat to just sit and watch the world go by. WE FULLY RECOMMEND YOU VISITING.

Transport & Parking

Following our exit off the main A38 and very quickly reaching the Marina, with well signed boards, you reach a number of parking areas that are provided for you, all well maintained, and easy for reaching the shops.

Access

Each car park area has a number of disabled bays for you, all quite close to lakes, Marina and shops. Although hard core ground, we found they were well looked after, hardly any potholes, and on the level. From any of these, you will be able to see all that is on offer. Lots of seating areas as well, even if one or two are placed to invite you to take a cup of well earned tea or coffee.

Toilets

Personally, we did not find public toilets to be able to advice you, but we did make use of their Waterfront restaurant disabled toilet, which was as expected, very clean and well maintained. Large enough to get wheelchair inside if you have to, and you can spin around in there, with grab rails and pull cord.

Staff

Everyone we met are so pleasant and helpful, from restaurant staff to shopkeepers, so well done to them all.

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