UK Carer Tickets & Disabled Admission Prices: The Directory

Carer and companion ticket policies, disabled parking and access notes for the UK attractions we have visited.

Every entry below comes from a visit we actually made. We are a family living with autism, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, dyspraxia, total blindness and hearing loss, so what we write down is what we needed to know ourselves: whether a carer gets in free, where the disabled bays are, and whether the lift was working on the day.

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Policies change — always check with the venue before you travel. The date on each entry is when we visited, and everything here reflects how we found it on that day. Nothing has been copied from a venue website; where a post did not record a policy, we say so rather than guessing.

Attractions where a carer or companion goes free

These are the places where we were given a free or discounted carer, companion or PA ticket.

Black Country Living Museum

  • Where: Dudley
  • Carer or companion: Free essential carer ticket
  • Parking and access: Car Park 2 has 15 disabled spaces. Barrier controlled with a charged exit token, free for blue badge holders. The new entrance removes the steepest part of the hill; stairs or a lift down to the site.
  • We visited: December 2025
  • Read our full review of Black Country Living Museum

Bletchley Park

  • Where: Milton Keynes
  • Carer or companion: Carer goes in free
  • Parking and access: Free parking with plenty of blue badge spaces. Audio descriptive devices available inside. Large site — a wheelchair or scooter helps if walking distances is difficult.
  • We visited: June 2019
  • Read our full review of Bletchley Park

Blists Hill Victorian Town

  • Where: Ironbridge, Shropshire
  • Carer or companion: Reversed from the usual — the carer pays and the disabled visitor goes in free
  • Parking and access: Parking is charged but free for blue badge holders. You are given a detailed access booklet covering every exhibit. A steep central hill has an incline lift, which was out of order on our visit.
  • We visited: May 2019
  • Read our full review of Blists Hill Victorian Town

Boat Museum

  • Where: Ellesmere Port
  • Carer or companion: A carer's ticket was given
  • Parking and access: Ramp up to the door. Upstairs reached by stairs or lift, and one boat has a ramp so you can see inside.
  • We visited: November 2019
  • Read our full review of Boat Museum

Little Moreton Hall (National Trust)

  • Where: Congleton, Cheshire
  • Carer or companion: Free National Trust Essential Companion Pass, for one or two companions, issued in the member's name
  • Parking and access: Disabled bays near the Visitor Centre and accessible toilets near the entrance. Upper floors only via steep, winding Tudor stairs. Warped floors can trigger vertigo.
  • We visited: August 2026
  • Read our full review of Little Moreton Hall (National Trust)

Matlock Bath

  • Where: Derbyshire
  • Carer or companion: A carer's ticket was given
  • Parking and access: Steep path down to the station at the bottom. The upper cavern has steps down and low ceilings; signs advise wheelchair users against the path to the lower cavern.
  • We visited: October 2019
  • Read our full review of Matlock Bath

Museum of Illusions

  • Where: Manchester
  • Carer or companion: Free carer ticket, collected at the museum with proof
  • Parking and access: Upstairs on Market Street, with an escalator, stairs and a lift. Free lockers. A few exhibits have a step up.
  • We visited: October 2025
  • Read our full review of Museum of Illusions

National Space Centre

  • Where: Leicester
  • Carer or companion: Free PA ticket with a disabled visitor's ticket
  • Parking and access: £20 per disabled visitor and £4 parking when we went. Designated quiet days with no school visits. Booking online made the ticket valid a year. The back planetarium row is for wheelchair users and companions.
  • We visited: April 2026
  • Read our full review of National Space Centre

The Beatles Story

  • Where: Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool
  • Carer or companion: Carers go free, and there is a concession for disabled visitors
  • Parking and access: The museum is down stairs, with a small lift that fits one wheelchair. Motorised scooters will not fit. The audio guide is touchscreen only.
  • We visited: January 2019
  • Read our full review of The Beatles Story

The National Museum of Computing

  • Where: Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes
  • Carer or companion: Carers get free entry
  • Parking and access: Housed in an original listed Bletchley hut, so difficult to get around in a wheelchair. They run wheelchair-user-only days.
  • We visited: June 2019
  • Read our full review of The National Museum of Computing

Thinktank

  • Where: Birmingham
  • Carer or companion: Carers go free, and there is a concession for disabled visitors
  • Parking and access: Millennium Point multi-storey car park. Show a blue badge to an attendant and they activate your ticket so you do not pay. A quiet room is available.
  • We visited: November 2018
  • Read our full review of Thinktank

Trentham Gardens

  • Where: Stoke-on-Trent
  • Carer or companion: The accessible membership includes free entry for an essential carer
  • Parking and access: Paths are mostly wheelchair accessible and the ones that are not are clearly labelled. The wildlife cruise boat is fully accessible. Dogs welcome on leads. There is a Sensory Garden.
  • We visited: September 2025
  • Read our full review of Trentham Gardens

Warner Bros. Studio Tour

  • Where: Leavesden
  • Carer or companion: Free carer's ticket, bookable by phone only. Proof of eligibility (PIP or DLA letter, blue badge) shown when collecting
  • Parking and access: Plenty of blue badge parking — display your badge on arrival so you can be directed to it. An audio descriptive tour can be requested when booking by phone.
  • We visited: June 2019
  • Read our full review of Warner Bros. Studio Tour

West Midland Safari Park

Other places we have reviewed

We did not record a carer policy at these, either because it did not apply or because we did not ask at the time. The access notes still stand.

Bakewell (town)

  • Where: Derbyshire
  • Parking and access: Public toilets on Granby Road cost 20p; the disabled toilet's lock cannot be operated by a blind visitor. Everyone pays to park including blue badge holders, and disabled bays on the main car parks are small. The Bakewell Bridge long stay car park route crosses a very narrow bridge.
  • We visited: September 2025
  • Read our full review of Bakewell (town)

Blackshaw Moor Caravan Club Site

Cadbury World

  • Where: Bournville, Birmingham
  • Parking and access: Full wheelchair access, audio description for visually impaired visitors and signed videos. Best avoided in school holidays if anyone has sensory processing difficulties.
  • We visited: September 2018
  • Read our full review of Cadbury World

Clip 'n' Climb

Community Junction cafe

  • Where: Newcastle-under-Lyme
  • Parking and access: Run by staff and students with additional needs from Newfriars College. Open term time, 9.30am to 2pm, Monday to Friday.
  • We visited: October 2025
  • Read our full review of Community Junction cafe

Concorde Tour, Manchester Airport

Emma Bridgewater

  • Where: Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
  • Parking and access: Plenty of free parking nearby. You enter via the shop; there are steps up but a small lift sits to the right of the stairs. Pottery painting booked online at £5 each to secure.
  • We visited: May 2026
  • Read our full review of Emma Bridgewater

Gladstone Pottery Museum

  • Where: Longton, Stoke-on-Trent
  • Parking and access: Victorian cobblestones make it bumpy for wheelchair users, and Grade II listed parts are less accessible — but a large part of the museum is accessible. Pottery decorating is about £3 on top of admission.
  • We visited: November 2018
  • Read our full review of Gladstone Pottery Museum

Green Door

  • Where: Westport Lake, Stoke-on-Trent
  • Parking and access: Side-by-side tandems (we hired a Van Raam Fun2Go) and hand trikes are available to hire from this charity, alongside other accessible bikes and trikes. Hire sessions are 30 minutes or 1 hour.
  • We visited: October 2025
  • Read our full review of Green Door

Jodrell Bank

Middleport Pottery

  • Where: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
  • Parking and access: A Victorian pottery, so cobblestones make it bumpy for wheelchair users. Their big ticketed events get very crowded — at the Christmas lights switch on the mini events were virtually impossible to reach, especially for wheelchair users.
  • We visited: December 2019
  • Read our full review of Middleport Pottery

RAF Museum Cosford

  • Where: Shropshire
  • Parking and access: Free entry, but everyone pays for parking including blue badge holders. Very accessible — lifts in the Cold War hangar, or a sloped path outside.
  • We visited: October 2018
  • Read our full review of RAF Museum Cosford

Science and Media Museum

Severn Valley Railway

  • Where: Shropshire
  • Parking and access: One carriage is adapted with wider doors, a ramp and removed seats. If it is not attached to your train, the guard stows the wheelchair and you travel first class at no extra charge.
  • We visited: October 2018
  • Read our full review of Severn Valley Railway

Stoke Minster

  • Where: Stoke-on-Trent
  • Parking and access: Smooth pathways around the churchyard, but you need to cross grass to see some of the items of historical interest.
  • We visited: April 2019
  • Read our full review of Stoke Minster

The Bursley Trail

Trentham Monkey Forest

World of Wedgwood

Closed venues and one-off events

These are here for the record only — you cannot plan a visit around them. Either the venue has since closed, or what we went to see was a one-off exhibition or event rather than something permanent. We have left the reviews up because the access notes may still be useful if something similar comes along.

Halloween at Trentham Gardens

  • Where: Trentham Gardens, Stoke-on-Trent
  • Status: One-off event (Halloween half-term week)
  • Parking and access: A signposted quiet area was provided for anyone who found it overwhelming. The on-stage music was loud, while the pantomime dialogue was hard to follow as it was too quiet.
  • We visited: October 2025
  • Read our full review of Halloween at Trentham Gardens

Museum of the Moon

  • Where: Touring installation
  • Status: One-off exhibition
  • Parking and access: A touring artwork rather than a permanent venue. It was free to visit and accessible for wheelchair users when we saw it.
  • We visited: October 2018
  • Read our full review of Museum of the Moon

National Brewery Centre

  • Where: Burton upon Trent
  • Status: Now closed
  • Parking and access: Carers went in free when we visited. We found it accessible, though some exhibits were not reachable in a wheelchair.
  • We visited: January 2019
  • Read our full review of National Brewery Centre

Spotted something out of date?

We add an entry every time we visit somewhere new, and move one down here when a place closes. If a policy has changed since we went, or you have found something we have missed, tell us and we will update it.