NEC National Exhibition Centre

The favourite part of my visit was speaking to new people and seeing the sports cars,

I attended both days of Motability The Big Event at the NEC on 17 and 18 May 2024 as I was volunteering on the Euan's Guide stall. Through this I also heard other people's experiences of visiting the NEC. The comments in the review are mine unless I reference someone else. On the second day of attending, when our taxi arrived at the parking attendant booth, the member of staff asked to see my crutch before they would let our vehicle go to the dropping off point. I found this utterly humiliating, and it has clouded my experience of visiting the NEC. However, on paper it ticks many boxes and is generally accessible, there are areas where they could do better. I have received a reply to my complaint and have put it in the additional information section if you'd like to read it.

It was such a lovely experience going to the motabilty event like we do every year. We met lots of celebrities like Lucy Edwards and paralympics athletes too and lots of stalls about different charities and lots of cars, vehicles tochoose from. Its lovely having my Motability car as its the closest i will ever get to driving since my disabilities stopped me driving 20 years ago. We met Euansguide there too. Which was lovely. The only problem we had was leaving the nec car park to get on the motorway as we kept going round in circles with the sat nav telling us where to go. 4th time lucky we got out and found the way home.