A welcome in Spain

[HamishPMR]

A nice welcome on arriving into Malaga airport.

[123-go]

It’s clear you have been awarded celebrity status 😁. Enjoy your holiday ☀️

[winfong]

What does it really stand for?

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to winfong]

According to Regulation 1107/2006, “Person with disabilities” or “person with reduced mobility (PMR)” means any person whose mobility to use transport is reduced due to physical disability (sensory or locomotive, permanent or temporary), intellectual disability or impairment, or any other cause of disability, or age, ...

Sometimes written as PRM…probably depends on country..

[HamishPMR in reply to DorsetLady]

I was being silly, I hope I did not offend. Kindest Hamish

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to HamishPMR]

No of course it didn’t offend.. 😊. .. and interesting to know. Enjoy your holiday. .

[HamishPMR in reply to DorsetLady]

Thanks LADY and also for so much helpful work that you put into this site. As a pharmacist, or rather I qualified as a Chemist & Druggist, I worked for 40 yrs helping people, and loved it. Well done for your help. Hamish

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to HamishPMR]

As often said by PMRpro- it’s why we are here…. 😊

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to DorsetLady]

PRM here in Italy - "Persons of restricted mobility" on English signs. Can't remember what the German and Italian versions are.

Here we are "Passeggeri a mobilità ridotta (PRM)" which is silly as it is PMR!!! German is "Person mit eingeschränkter Mobilität". But they always use the English language abbreviation on signs.

[Dochaz in reply to PMRpro]

Personne à mobilité réduite (PMR) in France. And our PMR is PPR for pseudo polyarthrite rhizomélique

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Dochaz]

Sounds disgusting!!!! Beats Hortons disease for GCA!

[Dochaz in reply to PMRpro]

Hard to say too 🙁!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Dochaz]

Not even the consolation of some pretty flowers - irises are rhizomes. Or a bit of ginger ...

[Guilluame]

hi, Haimish, I hope you enjoy Spain. I am on an extended holiday here and arrived on 1st February, weather has been up and down with mostly sunny days. I have reduced down to 1mg but do feel a few aches and pains, hopefully your holiday will help improve your symptoms. Emjoy.

[S4ndy]

Hamish, well that answers why the hotel I booked near Versailles in September offered me a PMR room! I was a bit confused how they knew 😂Thanks Dochaz for the French translation of PMR might come in useful if my foggy brain remembers it!

Merci Beaucoup x

[ladygigger]

That explains a few things... I went out to Spain for Xmas (I have family there) and it was my first flight since PMR. I'd booked priority security because I didn't fancy having to stand in a queue for however long and at Luton that was just as well. It had already taken well over an hour to check in due to the automated bag drops not working that morning and we'd had to be called to the front to drop off. Security took about 10 minutes instead of about 90, I heard.

I'd booked the same on the way home from Malaga but as we walked towards the priority, we were told to go down the PMR route - my partner always walks with a stick and I am an occasional user due to the hip bursitis. It does mean that you're through almost instantly!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to ladygigger]

Always book airport assistance whatever airport you are using. It is free and you jump ALL the queues, even being taken on an electic buggy or a wheelchair so no walking at all.

[HamishPMR in reply to PMRpro]

Or have a folding walking stick for security and passport control.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to HamishPMR]

Nah - that'll get you nowhere in the US! Airport assistance jumps even immigration queues there. You always have a seat even if it is a wheelchair and often a reserved waiting area and they know about gate changes, delays and any other hiccups. Can't beat it.

[ladygigger in reply to PMRpro]

I had to be very careful with my walking stick: being me, I had to get one with a point to stick in the ground and somewhere to attach my camera at the top. I have to make sure that the ferrule is very tightly attached, or I might get stopped for having an offensive weapon!

I still haven't got used to this being disabled yet - I can walk, it just gets painful when the bursitis kicks in, which isn't all the time and feel by booking airport assistance that I'm taking it away from those who need it. That being said, there was a slight discussion at Malaga when a buggy turned up and tried to turn us out of disabled seating. We both waved out sticks at him, but the driver was trying to tell us that those seats were reserved for Ryanair passengers (yep, that's right) who'd also booked assistance. Nope, nothing marked on the chairs and I wasn't moving.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to ladygigger]

I was told off at Frankfurt for sitting in seats for the assistance passengers - nasty piece of stuff who was trying to transfer the blame for her failures to me. I pointed out that I was ...

[ladygigger in reply to PMRpro]

Sounds the same as my experience at Malaga... there were several other people sitting in the disabled spaces who were younger and able. They got up and moved when the other disabled passengers arrived. Since that meant that the assisted passengers now had somewhere to sit and no one was having to stand, I stayed where I was.

[Doraflora]

wow - and did you get a red carpet on arrival?🤣