Can hotels charge more for handicap accessible rooms, and do they have to make these rooms available to handicapped individuals?
According to the DOJ in 1993 opinion letter (emphasis added): We presume under your scenario that a person with a disability is being offered a non-accessible room because all accessible guestrooms are occupied by persons with disabilities. If that is not the case, the hotel should move nondisabled guests to another room and provide the accessible room to the person with a mobility impairment. This situation can be avoided by reserving the hotel’s accessible rooms until all the other rooms are booked, by renting accessible rooms to nondisabled guests for one night only, or by notifying nondisabled persons who rent accessible rooms that they may be asked to move to another room. Furthermore, an existing hotel that has an insufficient number of accessible rooms, according to the ADA Standards for Accessible Design, Section 9.1.2, is obligated under the ADA to remove architectural barriers to access and make the requisite number of r
