♿️WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY IN IKEA LONDON -(We filmed a sit-com!)
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- Опубліковано 19 лис 2019
- ♿️COME AND FOLLOW ME AROUND IKEA LONDON. WE ARE DISCOVERING HOW ACCESSIBLE IT IS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND WHEELCHAIR UERS. MAKE SURE YOU WATCH THE WHOLE THING TO SEE OUR HILARIOUS SIT-COME WE FILMED!!!
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In the IKEA stores in Sweden I’ve been to they also have a diaper changing table in wheelchair level in the wheelchair accessible bathroom.
"I've lost Shaun: he's lost the will to live."
Perfect description of a grueling shopping trip. Had to share this with the hubs and he totally relates too!
When I first got my chair one of the first places I asked to go to was Ikea, it was a great place to learn how to control my Smart Drive. I'm from Pennsylvania, USA and we have a couple around here. The one local to me has a covered parking area with plenty of handicapped parking. Not sure why but it's sort of become a place to go and spend time on a rainy Saturday.
Hi! I'm from PA and use a chair too, haha small world
Same haha
Meatballs and rescuing an IKEA pencil are statutory obligations on IKEA shop! Looks like you had a great (if gruelling) time - I too am a sucker for storage boxes and the like!
"What's on the board Miss Ford"!!!! I remember. . . "It's a CUDDLY TOY"!!! hahaha
Yup those annoying lose carpets in IKEA has made me trip and or fall a couple of times. I heard "just lift your feet then you won't trip" to many times, well technically i do, my lower body just doesn't always cooperate due to a spinal injury.
And yes IKEA is exhausting to visit but oh so much fun.
I go to the IKEA in Odense or Århus, Denmark. Both stores is about 90 minutes away from me.
Idea Shawn using a wheelchair going to a theme park
Oh my word!!! This is so great! You two are such a great couple to watch.
I haven't been to IKEA in years since before chair. I think it may be on my to list. I'm in Cheyenne Wyoming and there's a store in Denver Colorado. A tad further than your drive but certainly doable. IKEA here I come!
I love how silly you pair are together 😍
Ikea is so easy to get around. I use the Ikea app so I can check stock availability (and where to pick it up from) and see if there’s any offers with the ikea family card. I use the apps shopping list to save what I’m looking to buy. 🤗🥰 Make sure to pick up the store map so you can use the short cuts to get through the store quicker 😉 to save you from “Ikea fever” 😂🤣😂🥰
you sound like an IKEA pro! Ill look out for that next time. x
We don't have an IKEA in Alaska. The closest one is in Seattle, Washington, which is a 4 hour plane flight away. I've never actually been to one. I was most surprised at how inexpensive everything was. I think they charge a lot more in the US based on what friends have told me
THAT BATHROOM IN THE IKEA IN THIS VIDEO. WAS THE CADILLAC OF THE POOPING STALLS. LOL
Love over reindeer balls. 💕🤣. “Stay with me Shawn, we’re nearly there!” That’s how I felt the one time I went to Ikea lol. A lot of great accessible stuff there, though. They need to make those tiny “children’s” kitchens real and functional. I would be all about that. I went to Ikea in Minnesota in the U.S.
I live in Sweden and love IKEA it is really accessible, here on our IKEA they often have different events, I have been to several of them, but the best was when we got to sleep over in IKEA, it was a real funny event, we got food (not meatballs 😆) dessert, candy, and we watched a movie. Every family got one of rooms to sleep in each. And when we woke up we had breakfast and we got a big goodiebag each.
wow that sounds like so much fun!
I love the sitcom I just know y’all had an audience 🤣
You're so right! And: the toilets are well done: you've enough place, and you can change the nappies of your baby very fine!
Ha! I had Problems with the toilet door in ikea, too! But I couldn't even figure out how to close it...
In general, I found ikea great for accessibility, too!
But I have to say, I envy you for having a husband that seems to enjoy ikea! Mine hates it with a passion and is already in a grumpy mood when we get in the car to go there... (which is why I knew he REALLY loves me when one year he made me a birthday gift that he needed a piece from ikea for 😉)
“It’s like bringing a catalogue to life” 😁😁😁 love you two!
My local Ikea also has wheelchairs you can borrow, which is great for me. I don't have my own yet but for longer adventures, it certainly helps. I have been using my rollator the past few times, but I might borrow a wheelchair next time. I love how things are just ... easy there. And the food is affordable, too. Great place for a rainy Saturday.
I just watched you travel around IKEA and it was so very enjoyable, great work as usual
I don't know if anyone has already mentioned it but the Ikea store in Exeter has an absolutely mahooosive changing places toilet. A really great experienece
I believe we have them all over America. I live in the Midwest (Ohio) and we have had one for about 2 yrs now.
portland oregon! its a big one and everyone whos posh shops there. ive never been though.
This was a really informative video and good to know how accessible Ikea is. I actually laughed out loud when Shawn sat there with his jacket bulged Open after eating the meatballs
I live in London and I know that most places are wheelchair accessible and more so everyone can enjoy their visit to london
I went to London, Paris, and Barcelona. In Paris you couldn’t get to our hotel room without going up a couple steps even if you took the elevator. London was MUCH more accessible
I really enjoyed this one :) Shaun's shenanigans put a smile on my face. Happy Birthday, Gem!!! 🎉🎉🎉
First like and comment! Love your videos!
I’ve just found your channel 😊 I don’t have any disability or know people with it, but I find it really interesting 😉 Needless to say you’ve got a new subscriber ❤️
you two are hysterical!
Great video and happy birthday gem😀💐🍰👍
Happy Birthday Gem! ❤️❤️❤️🎉🎉🎉
Just got your first video, I'm a user of chair ,cloths shop can be a nite mate. Thanks for what you do to highlighting the problems people can have.
Happy Birthday Gem!!!
I got tired looking at that place. Closest ikea for me is 400 miles away. So doubt ill live long enough to see one. Fun video.
Happy belated Birthday, Gem! What a brilliant and entertaining video! You and Shaun ought to pitch your sit-com concept to the BBC. Maybe a reality sit-com? 😁
Our nearest IKEA is about 510 miles away, in St. Paul, Minnesota. We haven’t been to that one, but we’ve been to the big IKEA just north of Tokyo, Japan. Loads of fun! There’s also a smaller one near Yokohama, Japan.
It is really fun to see you rolling around at IKEA that we also do have some of them here in the U.S. that their is one not to far where I live at.
Loved the video. my kind of day out. McD for breakfast and IKEA meatballs for lunch..(with chips). Looks almost exactly like IKEA Osnabruck here in Germany. And I have a couple of those wooden iPhone stands. Good for a Christmas stocking filler gift. Take care and have fun.
You guys are fun
That's Purley love the IKEA there 🥰 mostly the meatballs
Yes, we do. Mine is in Pittsburgh.
I recently moved to about 10min away from an IKEA. It’s one of our favorite date night spots when we can afford it. It can be very overstimulating and my power chair does not fit in about half of the displays. Still, it’s fun and much more accessible than most stores/shops.
They’re everywhere! When I was in Portugal I even saw them there! 😆
Yes! In spain too
I was so worn out at the end of my first time in Ikea that I had my “first show” as we left!( I was heavily pregnant!)
Tours France 🇫🇷 is my local IKEA and I have to say its pretty much identical to the London one lol, wow 👌 10/10 for the clean toilet! There's nothing worse than wheeling on wet toilet floors.......
I live in Germany (Bavaria) and there are a lot of Ikea shops. I love your videos (and Ikea😂)
I just went to Ikea this afternoon 😊, it is a 10 min drive from me. So I go to often 😂. BTW I am from the Netherlands, there are 13 IKEA’s here.
This makes me really want to go to Ikea now 😂
Challenge for Sean 'Sports Direct', or similar in a wheelchair! They are generally a nightmare.
was at ikea amsterdam this weekend and the first thing was the toilet👍👍♿🤣
Our Ikea have loads of disabled parking too. I have never had any problems in ours. Disabled toilets are great too
One of the first stores I went to when I got my wheelchair was IKEA and it was indeed very accessible and staff was always ready to help me out and even asked the moment I got in if I wanted a wheelchair cart to do my shopping (which I declined, because I was with my mother who doesn't have any disabilities). Once I got my service dog they were very accessible for him as well! They know the law on service animals so well and even stepped up when someone was harassing us because of my service dog. And I am actually speaking about three different IKEA stores who were all equally helpful and knowledgeable about disabilities . The stores I am talking about are Zaventem, Wilrijk and Breda, so Belgium and The Netherlands. Both countries where accessibility and awareness about disabilities and service dogs still needs quite some work, but IKEA is always awesome to us!
Here in Budapest, Hungary we have wheelchairs in IKEA which we can rent out and it is great since I do not use one fulltime. And everything is accessible too.
The meatballs in Ikea are the best 😂
Ottawa, Ontario.Canada🇨🇦
My nearest IKEA is in Gothenburg which is about an hours drive away, or even a bit more as the IKEA is in a suburb on the for me far side of Gothenburg. I actually haven’t been to IKEA at all for about 9 years now, last time I went was in Malmö as I actually lived right next to the huge IKEA they opened in Svågertorp in like 2009 or so, I lived in the area when the store was being built, so once it opened I did stop by at times after work or in the weekend as it was walking distance from home.
Most exotic IKEA I’ve been to though would be Shanghai! And yes, I did try the meatballs there just for fun, tasted like in IKEA here except for the fries with them, meatballs should be eaten with mash or plain potatoes (if liking potatoes) or with pasta, rice works as well if you make a lot of gravy, but fries is a no go Lol
IKEA meatballs are nothing like the home cooked Swedish meatballs, but they’re good for what it is: a very inexpensive and satisfying and convenient meal. I’d often buy the IKEA meatballs and have at home while living next to IKEA in Malmö because it was so convenient to just warm some meatballs and cook some pasta after getting back from work (and I had 1,5-2 hours commute home at the time), the IKEA hash browns are pretty incredible too, can highly recommend them if you have the ability to bring home frozen foods from the food court. At Christmas if you can find it in the food court, Julmust is the nectar of gods!
I really should try to go to IKEA during or after the holidays, even with the drive to get there (I don’t travel well any longer) as I’m moving now and know there are bits and bobs I do need to buy for my new home and I can’t really find all of it in other shops. Really need to get some baskets and stuff for easier storage and organizing in closet, drawers and shelves
Hi Gem. We have a Huge IKEA in Orlando, Florida. If you are ever here again and want to get away from Disney World, IKEA is by the Mall at Millenia. There are lots of wheelchair accessible parking spots and I have seen many people move around easily in their wheelchairs through the display rooms.
Storage tub addiction 🤣🙂🤣
My nearest Ikea is in Warrington over an hour away, but I don’t drive.
I’ve only been to an Ikea once, years before I needed a wheelchair and I bought a cot for my little sisters baby, said child is doing her GCSE’s now though!
Happy birthday!! 💋💪❤️ BTW I think this is the IKEA where I live unless they all look the same 😁😁🙂🙂
its the Croydon one. :)
@@Wheelsnoheels yesss that's literally a 20 minutes drive from where I live 🙂I love it there but alwayyys get lost 😂😂❤️ xx
Loving this video I'm also a wheelchair user I'm 20 and I'm been in a wheelchair for 6 years now but I have a wheelchair like yours for when I'm in the house and my Electric wheelchair is on charge and then when I go out I use my Electric wheelchair becase my boyfriend refuses to push me becase his an arse
In the Video description is a small typing misstake. users and not uers. Greetings from Hamburg, Germany anyways it was an Awesome Video!
There’s an IKEA about two miles from my house, here in Southern California. Sometimes I just go there to have lunch. It can get really crowded at the one I go to, and walking with a cane sometimes gets a little annoying. 👍
I love Ikea! My mum and I really enjoy it because we are goofing around like you did 😂
In my local Ikea there are adjustable tables. You can change the height so your wheelchair can fit under the table. I say it’s the most accesible furniture store. At least in Belgium.
wow adjustable tables? never seen that. x
Wheelsnoheels - Gem Hubbard
I’ll take a picture and send it to you on instagram next time I go to Ikea.
I live in France, we have Ikea here too :-)
I'm so used to your USA videos, so I always get super confused when I see what side of the road you guys drive on 😂
It looks a whole lot better than the West London branch!
We have Ikea in Norway to :)
I lived in Paris and they have Ikea in France too!
People always ask me that if I could not be paralyzed would I and I always have the same answer. NO. Even if it would help me I would have to recharge my entire life.
YOU GUYS WENT TO MY IKEA IN VALLEY PARK OMG
I wondered when you said "London" whether it would be IKEA in Wembley. My late grandad used to work on that site when it was Ascot Boilers.
I couldn't get into many of those "rooms" because of my unbendy knees. I would get stuck and frustrated with all that superfluous furniture. Are the measurements in real measures as well as Metric? I can't visualise in Metric, only feet and inches.
My closest Ikea is in Atlanta Georgia which is a 2 hour drive from my town.
hey im early
My nearest ikea is just out of seoul, in goyang
south korea's got 'em too
We have a new IKEA in Norfolk, VA!! I have been really impressed with their accessibility. I haven’t used their restrooms yet so now I want to check it out😂 my favorite is the carts they have for the food trays in the cafe! I need one of those all the time!!!
Have you seen the carts for the bags too? they are like the normal carts, only smaller and have hooks for the bag! genious! yes I saw the food one too. You can get them for the home. Ask your OT if you have one. x
Wheelsnoheels - Gem Hubbard yes! I typically use the carts for the bags! So convenient!!
Ikea Cardiff was not bad at all except for the restaurant queuing system and the dinner trolleys were awkward!
Utrecht is my local IKEA. It's a 20 minute drive from where I live.
No IKEA in South Africa that I know of * cries *
There is one in Columbus Ohio but that is 2 hrs away from me. I've never been.
Chuckles the IKEA you went to is way more accessible then our local one (which is actually just down the street from our home) when it comes to the inside of the store with the displays and layouts. Most of the display rooms are so NOT accessible to a wheelchair. Ours is totally service animal accessible IF the handler is without mobility issues or needing aids (not blind friendly).
Chuckles the tri USB port we picked up a couple of them when they first came out, totally worth it!
I take it you don't have the vegan meatballs there yet? We wont touch their original ones as their vegan one's taste so much better. Though they are by far a good cheap food option that is for sure (through to be fair 4.99CAD for the vegan meat balls vs 8.99CAD for the swedish meatballs is a BIG price difference).
Chuckles your experiance reminds me of showing our ikea to my husband for his time.
00:14 Sausage & Egg McMuffin or Bacon & Egg McMuffin ?
Neither.
McFake McFood for McBreakfast, _BLEAH!_
Go to a _real bakery_ and get proper fresh made filled breakfast croissants. Ham, Cheddar, and soft yolk fried egg, is a favourite of mine.
00:45 IKEA stores being overwhelming
That is by deliberate corporate design. It's specifically to force you through their maze, so you will see and impulse buy stuff you do not need and did not go to IKEA to actually buy.
03:29 The revolving door
While it's diameter is big enough to be physically accessible, you also have to be able to move fast enough to be able to safely navigate the revolving door. That makes it an accessibility barrier.
06:10 I hope you reported the mat corner poking up, as a safety hazard
07:32 The play kitchen
Scale that play kitchen up by, I think about a third, and it would still be accessible, then replace the play sink, cooktop, and microwave, with real items, and it'd be a full size, one-piece ready to plumb and install, proper wheelchair accessible kitchen.
10:18 The paper tape measure
Shaun should have had a Lufkin 3m/10ft Pee-Wee Y613ME, metric and Imperial pocket tape measure with him.
I've had my one since 1982, and it still works fine. When going shopping for furniture, or measuring up an area, it's an invaluable aid to have on hand due to its compact size and very flexible blade.
12:42 IKEA Swedish Meatballs
Those are actually very poorly regarded in Sweden.
15:04 The Travelator
I dislike those when I'm using my rollator walker, as their slight jolting movement makes my rollator move slowly ahead of me, whilst its brakes are on.
I've yet to try to navigate one, using my wheelchair.
17:15 Reusable shopping bags
You should have taken some of those with you into IKEA for the smaller household items.
I have several linen supermarket shopping bags I bought back in the late 1990s, as well as 2 hessian supermarket bags (like the Tesco one), and several Daiso Mickey Mouse cold goods bags, and they all store neatly in a supermarket cold goods bag. So when I go shopping, I just take one bag with me, to have all my reusable shopping bags with me.
20:14 Local IKEA
Where I live in Brisbane, Queensland,, I've got 2 IKEA stores I can get to. Logan, and North Lakes.
Other IKEA locations, when you did this video, IKEA were already well established in Japan.
Serious question Gem, does IKEA have wheelchair trolleys?
We found it best to ask before we vlog as you can gain more info than normal
Gem I have a wheelchair but I’m a kid and I can wheel my self in school and the car is all the way over the over side of the school but my teacher assistant comes out and pushes me in and my wheelchair goes in to the back of the van
I know I'm late to the party, but my local IKEA is Calgary, Canada. I don't think the ones in Canada get a whole "Christmas Shop" area which makes me a very unhappy Canadian.
Bloomington Minnesota is mine it’s an hour and 19 minutes away. Never been yet but I’m interested
Kitchen cupboards/worktops are not fitted at different heights and should be. Once, I delivered a large amount of kitchen units to a billionaires home. His wife was five foot tall. All the units were made to suit her height. This could be applied to wheelchair users, too.
(UK)
3ikeas within 30 minutes HELP the family get's crazy
Ik like the Video,
IKEA IS OKE👍
-The closest IKEA to where I am (Eugene Oregon) is 100 miles away in Portland. I have been there once.
Mash is the only way to go and I have to have lingonberrys to
We have an ikea in Massachusetts!
And Ireland has Ikea too
Shoes must last you forever ☺
Congratulations... (lite late I´m afraid). Loved to see you visiting Ikea and tryed Swedish "meatballs" since I live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have 3 Ikea store within 30 min of driving, and they look just like the one you visited. You woulkd not be able to tell the differenc if you were in it - eccept maybe the language. /B-A
once when i went to ikea i got so lost i couldent find my way out the arrows were off and the one employee up there did not speak english or understand it
That's in Croydon I used to live really close to there then I moved
I am in the US and the closest one to me is in Atlanta, Georgia.
Do they provide shopping carts for those who done have a wheel chair who is a part time wheel chair user?
The UAE's got one, but South Africa not :(