[nagdu] Issue with guide dog in training and puppy raiserathotelin GA

Thu Jun 16 02:55:11 UTC 2011

Lyn,
    I would like a shot at the franchise CEO! I'll bet I could convince him 
to follow the law. Then, rather than a boycott, I would prefer good ol' 
criminal prosecution and DOJ intervention!

Fraternally yours,
Marion Gwizdala


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lyn Gwizdak" <linda.gwizdak at cox.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Issue with guide dog in training and puppy 
raiserathotelin GA


> Yeah, then the next step could be a boycott of these Scottish Inns until 
> they agree to follow the law in access for service dogs!
>
> I wouldn't even want to stay at a place that responds by rudely hanging up 
> on you!
>
> Lyn and Landon
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 6:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Issue with guide dog in training and puppy 
> raiserathotel in GA
>
>
>>I started by speaking to Beverly Hunter at the GA office this morning, the 
>>person I am talking with is a puppy raiser with GDF in GA, she stayed at 
>>Scottish Inn in Metter, GA.  Dog was allowed in, but when she got bill the 
>>hotel charged her $10.00 for the dog, she said that the dog, who by the 
>>way had its vest on, said this is a guide dog in training, would you 
>>charge a person who is blind for there guide dog and they said yes.
>>
>> I call this morning prior to calling Beverly at the GA office and I 
>> started out by saying I am a travel agent here in NY, would there be a 
>> corporate office to contact, since I had learned there are a few scottish 
>> inns on the eastern part of the US, he was foreign as well, not sure, he 
>> said just owner, no corporate, I said may I speak to the owner, because 
>> being a travel professional I was trying to get foot in the door to find 
>> out who was in charge.
>>
>> He said he was the boss, and then I had started talking about this person 
>> who stayed at the hotel, she gave me her name and reservation number and 
>> I said that it is against ADA to charge for a Service Animal at a hotel, 
>> and he hung up on me.
>>
>> So I am in the middle of finding out if they are a franchise or not by 
>> calling some of the other locations and finding out myself, and then if 
>> that is the case calling the Corporate office and informing them of this 
>> act.
>>
>>
>> Leading the Way in Independent Travel!
>>
>> Cheryl Echevarria
>> http://www.echevarriatravel.com<http://www.echevarriatravel.com/>
>> 631-456-5394
>> reservations at echevarriatravel.com<mailto:reservations at echevarriatravel.com>
>>
>> Affiliated as an Independent Contractor with Montrose Travel 
>> CST-1018299-10
>>
>> Affiliated as an Independent Contractor with Absolute Cruise & Travel, 
>> Inc.
>>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>>  From: Marion Gwizdala<mailto:blind411 at verizon.net>
>>  To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog 
>> Users<mailto:nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>  Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 9:36 AM
>>  Subject: Re: [nagdu] Issue with guide dog in training and puppy raiser 
>> athotel in GA
>>
>>
>>  Cheryl,
>>      In the state of Georgia, trainers of service dogs have the same 
>> rights
>>  of access as the disabled person. The law does not require the trainer 
>> be a
>>  professional trainer, only that the individual can "be identified as an
>>  agent" of the training program. Here is the relevant text of Georgia 
>> code
>>  30-4-2 - 4
>>
>>  .
>>
>>  (2) Every person engaged in the training of a guide dog or service dog 
>> for
>>  the purpose of accompanying a person as provided in paragraph (1) of 
>> this
>>  subsection
>>
>>  shall have the same right to be accompanied by such dog being trained as 
>> the
>>  totally or partially blind person, deaf person, or physically disabled
>>  person
>>
>>  has under paragraph (1) of this subsection, so long as such trainer is
>>  identified as an agent or employee of a school for seeing eye, hearing,
>>  service,
>>
>>  or guide dogs.
>>
>>
>>
>>  If your friend would like to seek reimbursement of the fee that was 
>> charged,
>>  I would be happy to assist in this. Please have this person give me a 
>> call.
>>
>>  Fraternally yours,
>>  Marion Gwizdala, President
>>  National Association of Guide Dog Users (NAGDU)
>>  National Federation of the Blind
>>  813-626-2789
>>  President at NAGDU.ORG<mailto:President at NAGDU.ORG>
>>  HTTP://WWW.NAGDU.ORG<http://www.nagdu.org/>
>>
>>
>>
>>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>>  From: "cheryl echevarria" 
>> <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com<mailto:cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>>
>>  To: "nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org<mailto:nagdu at nfbnet.org>>
>>  Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 6:26 PM
>>  Subject: [nagdu] Issue with guide dog in training and puppy raiser at 
>> hotel
>>  in GA
>>
>>
>>  >I am keep name off, this had happed to a puppy raiser at my guide dog
>>  >school, she was staying in a hotel with her guide dog in training, and 
>> was
>>  >charged for the dog staying in her room.
>>  >
>>  > Puppies do not have the same access rights as the blind person with a
>>  > guide dog, she also said if she was blind would she have been charged 
>> the
>>  > money also, the man said yes, whether he fully understood the 
>> question, I
>>  > am sure in the state of GA that would have been frowned upon if that 
>> was
>>  > the case.
>>  >
>>  > But puppies are not under the same laws as us, if I understand 
>> correctly,
>>  > and up to the public facility to allow the guide dog in training in 
>> the
>>  > facility which wasn't the problem it was the fact that the woman was
>>  > charge for the dog in her room.
>>  >
>>  > Leading the Way in Independent Travel!
>>  >
>>  > Cheryl Echevarria
>>  > 
>> http://www.echevarriatravel.com<http://www.echevarriatravel.com/<http://www.echevarriatravel.com%3chttp//www.echevarriatravel.com/>>
>>  > 631-456-5394
>>  > 
>> reservations at echevarriatravel.com<mailto:reservations at echevarriatravel.com<mailto:reservations at echevarriatravel.com%3Cmailto:reservations at echevarriatravel.com>>
>>  >
>>  > Affiliated as an Independent Contractor with Montrose Travel
>>  > CST-1018299-10
>>  >
>>  > Affiliated as an Independent Contractor with Absolute Cruise & Travel,
>>  > Inc.
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