Folding or Powered Wheelchair: What Changes for Your Transfer

A folding manual wheelchair generally fits within a Standard category's boot alongside a reasonable amount of other luggage — it's worth counting it as roughly equivalent to a large suitcase when working out your total luggage units, so the category you choose has room for both the chair and your bags.

A powered chair's weight, whether it folds at all, and its exact dimensions vary a lot by model, and some simply won't fit in an ordinary car's boot regardless of category. Share the make and model, or at minimum the approximate weight and dimensions, when you book, and wait for our confirmation of a suitable vehicle before treating the ride as settled — this is one case where we genuinely need the specifics rather than a general note.

If your chair needs to travel where you can reach it rather than packed away, say so — that's a different vehicle requirement from simply fitting a folded chair in the boot, and it's worth being explicit about which situation you're in.

Once we've confirmed a suitable vehicle for your outbound leg, it's worth booking the return trip with the same wheelchair details rather than treating it as a separate question — the same chair, the same needs, and the same confirmation process apply whichever direction you're travelling, so getting it right once and reusing those notes saves you repeating the conversation.