Wheelies beware: Avoid SkyCity Cinemas – for now
Ah yes, the venue with the infamous heavy doors, as illustrated with a bizarre 3-men-in-a-disabled-bathroom incident on TV One’s CloseUp programme in October last year, is back making headlines. Or at least, my headlines. A friend and I visited the cinemas, located adjacent to Auckland’s Aotea Square, last night to see the movie The Bucket List. I went and bought the tickets, two frozen cokes (a vital necessity!), and hurried toward the lift, as we were already 5 minutes late. The movie was in Cinema 7, so that requires a two-lift trip. Having come up one lift, I was about to enter it again in order to access the second lift, some of you may know as the rocket one. However I was stopped just before I entered the first lift, and told the rocket lift was out of order!
Which meant, in a nutshell, I couldn’t get to Cinema 7, as the only other way up was by a spiral staircase. I asked the guy how long the rocket lift had been out of action for – his reply? 3 days. 3 days?! To fix a lift?! What kind of priority do these guys place on fixing these things? So here I was, sitting with two tickets to a movie I couldn’t get to, two frozen cokes that aren’t quite as delectable without the accompanying movie, and the realisation that we wouldn’t be seeing a movie tonight after all. To his credit, the guy who stopped us refunded us the movie tickets and the money for the cokes, but it was quite an abrupt (and embarrassing) end to a night.
I was surprised their staff weren’t aware of the lift closure, and didn’t advise me I wouldn’t be able to get there before I shelled out my fifteen bucks, but anyway, just thought I’d put the word out to the rest of y’all – I would definitely ring and check the lift is working before you plan any movie trips in the next few days!
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Christchurch Casino toilets are difficult to acess for a wheelchair, to enter you have to be assisted through two heavy doors, difficult to open, apart from that as your woman carer has to get a male to push you through the access which could lead to an accident if one is in a hurry.
Some other toilets in Christchurch have the same problem, especially Chrisrchurch Airport.
Sometimes the only handicapped toilet is in the ladies, awkward for males with female carer’s.I would like to seeimprovement in the set -up.