Mon Komo, Redcliffe

Lovely view from my room

Lounge space, moved coffee table

I spent last weekend by myself on the fourth floor of the Mon Komo Hotel at Redcliffe.  Fortunately, it was quite well set up for disabled access but it is a huge thing for me to be staying somewhere by myself for the first time since my injury. I have stayed in a number of places with my husband that weren't really suitable for me to be on my own.  My sister who travelled with us to Italy last year so understood my requirements, checked out the disabled access room at Mon Komo and told me I should be able to manage it.  My husband dropped me off there (he was going interstate).  The door to the apartment was very heavy for me.  My husband helped me settle in - move the coffee table that was in the middle of the lounge area, put two of the dining chairs out of the way, and took down some crockery from the cupboards above the stove (too high for me to reach), adjust the position of the shower head so I could reach it.  I thought disaster loomed as we had forgotten my bed-pole, though fortunately I managed without it (because I had to).  The bedroom was at one end of the apartment

and the bathroom at the other - prefer an en

suite arrangement.  The bathroom toilet had a rail on the wall beside it (no drop-down rail on the other side).  The shower had a drop-down shower seat to which I transferred from my wheelchair.  I tried to be very careful with the shower water so it didn't spread too far in to the room.  There

Crockery out of my reach

was a drain in the shower space, but it still left the floor wet.  Curiously, there were no rails for the towels.  Anyway, it worked for me though an arrangement like the one at the Stradbroke Hotel would improve it.  I was unable to go out on to the
balcony because of the tracks of the sliding doors and a small dip down.  There will be other wheelies for whom this would not be a problem.  Overall, I was very satisfied with my accommodation and I'm happy that I was able to manage on my own.