Comfort Inn 2 Dunlop Dr. St. Catharines ON Tel: 905-687-8890 Toll Free Reservations: 1-800-228-5150 Fax: 905-687-4033 Web site: www.choicehotels.ca/cn303
	Covered entrance - room 116 parking is just to the left of this	Front desk

Number of rooms in the hotel: 100 – number of accessible rooms: 1

The accessible room is on the first floor and is number 116. The first floor is a no smoking floor but smoking is optional for guests using the accessible room. In all there are 79 no smoking rooms in the hotel.

This Comfort Inn is one of 2000 hotels in Canada that fall under the umbrella of Choice Hotels, but is one of only 27 to receive the coveted Gold Award, an honour bestowed on it for four consecutive years.

The hotel is conveniently located alongside the QEW, the main highway running from the Peace Bridge at the Fort Erie/U.S. border to Toronto. St. Catharines is central to a number of area attractions within a short driving distance north, south, east or west, including wineries as close as seven kilometres, the famous Lock 3 Viewing Centre on the Welland Canal just five kilometres away and Niagara Falls 17 kilometres east down the highway. There is plenty of shopping at the accessible Pen Centre, also seven kilometres from the hotel and picturesque Port Dalhousie on Lake Ontario is just five kilometres north.

This hotel is animal friendly at no extra charge for guests on the ground floor only.

Parking spot needs more space for side-loading vans but good for all else.

PARKING: The rooms on the first floor of the hotel have their own parking spot located outside each individual room. To reach the designated parking for room 116 just drive past the main entrance to the hotel and you will notice each room number on the outside wall. There is also a wheelchair symbol on the wall of room 116. However, it should be noted that this particular parking spot is not wide enough to accommodate a side-loading vehicle. Likewise, the two designated spots outside the attached Golden Griddle restaurant are not wide enough for side-loading vehicles. There is ample parking at the front of the hotel and a side-loading van could park in front of a sign that points trucks and buses to the rear parking lot or simply check in with the front desk at the hotel and tell them you have a sideloading van and are taking two spaces to allow you to enter and exit your van. A sign tucked in your side window asking people not to park next to your van always helps.

ENTRANCE & DOORS: The hotel has a covered drive-through and a manual double door entrance with D-type handles. Between the double doors is a small foyer with an abundance of tourist information brochures, coupon booklets, a low telephone and taxi phone.

LOBBY: The front desk is not lowered and is rather high at 48” but staff is very accommodating and will assist you in registering. The lobby is small and intimate with wing chairs, side tables and a colour TV.

HOTEL HALLS & ROOM ENTRANCES: From the lobby you go through a fire door with a knob handle to the hallway leading to room 116. The hall is 5’ wide and is moderately lighted with wall lights. A vending room is in close proximity to the accessible room. It has a separate door with a knob handle.

Your room key is a plastic card. The doorway is 31” wide with a very small lip and the door handles are lever style. There is also a lower peephole in the door and a low safety chain lock. Once inside, there is a low light switch on your left that operates a light over the mirror above the dresser. The hallway into the bedroom is 37” wide.

Bed and pull-out sofa	Looking toward hall- space between bed and dresser	Toward bathroom

Low mirror	opposite bed	Space between bed and dresser and turnaround area in room

BEDROOM: The bedroom features a queen bed and a ¾ pullout sofa. Unlike beds in most hotels that we’ve audited, this bed is on legs to enable the use of a Hoyer lift rather than a platform base. At the foot of the bed is a nice low dresser 24” high with a remote TV and a mirror above the dresser. Beside the dresser are a table and two chairs. A lamp with twist knob and the usual coffee/tea fixings are on the table. A bedside night table has a lamp and a phone with dataport. On the other side of the bed is a clothes rack 57” high, ironing board right next to the bed and an iron 51” high. A thermostat is 41” high on the wall beside the bed along with bathroom light/fan switches 41” high. The door to the bathroom is on an angle allowing for easier access.

This is a good turnaround room for anyone using a scooter. There is a space of 32” between the foot of the bed and the dresser; 42” from the side of the bed to the pullout couch; 3’ from the other side of the bed to the bathroom wall; 5’5” from the couch to the table and almost 10’ from the bed to the patio door. The patio doors, which have safety J locks, open to the parking lot and the designated parking spot, but you have to wheel around to the main entrance to enter and exit. The room environment control is located on the patio door wall and is 23” high; it has twist dials. There is also a red fire strobe light on the wall. The hotel is adjacent to the QEW highway but we did not notice traffic noise in the room.

A light switch 30” high behind the bedside table operates the light above the mirror. There is a double plug on the wall behind the sofa.

Bars for toilet	Shower arrangement	proximity of sink and tub, etc.

BATHROOM: As mentioned previously, the bathroom door is on an angle. It is 30” wide with a lever handle. There is a mirror on the back of the door. A robe hook is 55” high on the bathroom wall. The room is 5’ wide and 53” from the edge of the vanity to the opposite wall. There is a space of 34” from the edge of the toilet to the angled door; 10” between the toilet and the wall and 12” between the toilet and the vanity. Transfer is from the front only.

The toilet is 16” high and has a toilet tank. There is a 2’ horizontal bar above the tank and an L-shaped bar on the wall beside the toilet. Toilet tissue holder is 24” high. The single vanity is 32” high and is open 27” below. It has a round sink with lever faucets and a nice wall-to-wall mirror. The hair dryer is 39” high with a double plug outlet beside the dryer. Towels are reachable and stacked on racks from 30”-44” high.

The bathroom has a moulded tub/shower unit and a bath chair is available but you have to ask for it. The tub is 16½” high with a 4½” wide lip on the outer edge. There is no inside lip. It has a nice low handheld showerhead that can also be draped over the built-in 23” horizontal Plexiglas bar if need be. There is a 2’ vertical grab bar beside the showerhead. The thermostatic control has a single lever handle.

There is no turnaround room in the bathroom for scooter users. You would have to go in forward and then back out.

RESTAURANT: The Golden Griddle restaurant is attached to the hotel but is independently owned. You can access the restaurant from inside the hotel as well as from the parking lot. The main entrance from the parking lot has a manual double door system while the entrance from the hotel is through a single door with a knob handle. It is open seven days a week from 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. and seats 158 with tables and chairs. The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and offers a special buffet breakfast/brunch with the works on Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at $10.99 for adults, $4.99 for ages 5-10 and $1.99 for ages 2-4 years.

There are accessible washrooms in the restaurant but the ladies washroom is best suited for wheelchair users. The wait staff will assist females with scooters to use the men’s washroom. There is also an ATM in the hallway between the hotel and the restaurant.

The Comfort Inn in St. Catharines is a friendly, clean, hotel offering most of the amenities you really need. It is close to everything but not on top of the tourist areas. Being adjacent to the QEW Highway if offers a convenient location to begin your Niagara journey.