Businesses and Services

Around Dundee NB: This list is not exhaustive and only includes buildings that are

fully accessible.

Getting Around Dundee Places of Interest

Cafés and Restaurants Shopping Centres

Public Buildings and Libraries Post Office

Health Centres and Chemists Hospitals

Public Toilets Useful Addresses

If you require a service that is not covered here, please email

symposium@dundeereptheatre.co.uk or call us on 01382 342600 and we’ll do our best to help.

Getting Around Dundee All Travel Dundee buses are now wheelchair friendly. There are many taxis suitable for wheelchairs, but they may not be accessible by people with other disabilities. It is advisable to ask for a “Wheelchair Taxi” or a “Saloon” when ordering by telephone. Companies with Accessible taxis include: Tele Taxis: 01382 203020 Dundee 50: 01382 505050 Follow this link for a list of Disabled parking places across the city http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/visitorparking/main.htm Places of Interest Discovery Point Discovery Quay, Dundee DD1 4XA 01382 201245 / www.rrsdiscovery.com Open: April – October, Monday – Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm, Sunday 11.00am – 5.00pm. November – March, Monday – Saturday 10.00am – 4.00pm, Sunday 11.00am – 4.00pm. Learn about Dundee’s connections with the Antarctic. Exhibition fully accessible except below decks on RRS Discovery. Café and shop. 2 wheelchairs available. Parking: 3 spaces to west of building. Verdant Works West Henderson’s Wynd, Dundee DD1 5BT 01382 226659 / www.rrsdiscovery.com/index.php?pageID=130 Open: 10.00am – 5.00pm (Sunday 11.00am) 19th century Jute Mill, showing machines, life of workers, hands-on experience for children. Fully accessible, café, shop. Wheelchairs available. Conference facilities.

Camperdown Park Coupar Angus Road, Dundee 01382 432689 / www.dundeecity.gov.uk/camperdown Open: 7 days, 10.00am – 4.30pm (last entry 3.45pm) Wildlife Centre fully accessible. Special Needs play complex. 2 adapted toilets at Wildlife Centre, 1 at house. Personal Assistants / Carers free at Wildlife Centre. Botanic Gardens Riverside Approach, Dundee. 01382 381190 / www.dundeebotanicgarden.co.uk Open 10.00am – 4.30pm, 7 days. Good paths, visitor centre, café. Adapted toilet. Parking on site. The McManus Albert Square, Dundee, DD1 1DA 01382 307200 / www.mcmanus.co.uk A magnificent Victorian, Gothic building where art, history and the environment combine to offer a fascinating insight into Dundee. Dundee Science Centre Greenmarket, Dundee DD1 4QB 01382 228800 / www.sensation.org.uk Open daily 10.00am – 6.00pm Dundee Science centre brings science to life with dozens of specially designed interactive exhibits. Find out how humans, animals and plants sense the world around them. Children with special needs welcomed, Personal Assistants / Carers free. Café and shop. Wheelchair available.

Dundee Ice Arena Camperdown Leisure Complex, Kingsway West, Dundee DD2 3SQ 01382 889369 / www.dundeeicearena.com Open: Monday – Wednesday 12 noon – 5.00pm, Thursday 12 noon – 3.00pm & 8.30pm – 10.30pm; Friday, Saturday & Sunday variable. Ice Hockey games, Saturday and Sunday evening. Viewing area for wheelchair users, 1st floor (lift) next to café. Personal Assistants / Carers can take wheelchair users onto ice. Dundee Rep Tay Square, Dundee DD1 1PB 01382 223530 / www.dundeerep.co.uk 3 blue badge parking spaces in South Tay Street. Automatic front doors. Café/restaurant on ground floor. Ramped access to booking desk and lift to bar and auditorium (with wheelchair spaces) on upper floor. Wheelchair spaces should be booked. Adapted toilet. Wheelchair available. Infra-red loop system in place. People with hearing difficulties should apply at booking desk for appropriate aid and advice on using it. For those with a sight impairment, a personal headset giving audio description of stage sets is available at the booking desk. Dundee Contemporary Arts Nethergate, Dundee 01382 909900 / www.dca.org.uk Art exhibitions, workshops and two cinemas, which show popular and art house films. Both cinemas have wheelchair spaces at back, which should be booked in advance. Café/Restaurant and bar. Level access from Nethergate to galleries. Lifts to all floors. Adapted toilets on 3 floors – ask where at reception desk. Blue badge and other parking in the car park at rear of building is accessed from North-bound dual carriageway in Marketgait. Conference facilities.

Odeon Cinema Douglasfield, Douglas Road, Dundee 0871 2244007 / www.odeon.co.uk Cinema on first floor, lift or escalator. Fully accessible for disabled. Hearing loops at tills and at all screens. Adapted toilets. Wheelchair available. Screens 1 & 6 have wheelchair places on 5th row. Screens 3 & 8 have spaces on 3rd row. Screens 2,4,5,7, and 9 have spaces at front, rather near screen. Enquire when booking. Cineworld Camperdown Leisure Park, Kingsway West, Dundee 0871 2002000 / Wheelchair booking: 01382 828793 / www.cineworld.co.uk Cinema fully accessible for disabled. Hearing loops at tills and at all screens. Adapted toilets. Wheelchair available. Registered Personal Assistants / Carers accompanying a disabled person are given free entry. Olympia Leisure Centre Earl Grey Place, Dundee DD1 4DD 01382 432300 / www.dundeecity.gov.uk/olympia/main.htm Parking nearby, disabled entrance with lift to level 1. Chair hoist to training pool. Disabled changing room with adult changing table. Lockers not near room. Shower chairs available to get pushed to pool. Templeton Woods Off Coupar Angus Road, Dundee http://www.camperdownpark.com/woods.htm All abilities access path created by Dundee Countryside Rangers with input from a number of disability groups. Visitor centre with disabled toilet.

Cafés and Restaurants (All have accessible toilets) Dukes Corner “An impressive range of international and craft beers as well as wines and cocktails, live gigs, DJs and some very chilled socialising.” Brown Street, Dundee, DD1 5EG, 01382 205052 Open daily - 12pm-midnight Mon & Tue, 12pm-2.30am Wednesday-Sunday Bon Appetite French Restaurant 22-26 Exchange Street, Dundee, DD1 3DJ 01382 809000 / www.bonappetit-dundee.com Rama Thai 32-34 Dock Street, Dundee, DD1 3DR, 01382 223366 / www.rama-thai.co.uk Marco Polo Mediterranean cuisine 42 Dock Street, Dundee, DD1 3DR 01382 221811 / www.marcopolocuisine.co.uk Blue Marlin Fish and Seafood Restaurant Camperdown Street, City Quay, Dundee, DD1 3JA 01382 534001 / www.thebluemarlin.co.uk Papa Joes American Style Restaurant 15 Whitehall Street, Dundee, DD1 4AA 01382 202520 / www.papa-joes.co.uk Byzantium Mediterranean Restaurant

11 Hawkhill, Dundee, DD1 5DL 01382 221946 / www.byzantiumrestaurant.com Le Gourmet Mediterranean Restaurant 36 Commercial Street, Dundee, DD1 3EJ 01382 205444 / www.legourmetdundee.co.uk Chambers Coffee House and Restaurant 34 South Tay Street , Dundee , DD11PD 01382 201533 / www.chamberscoffeehouse.co.uk Encore Bar + Brasserie, Dundee Rep Contemporary Cuisine Dundee Rep Theatre, Tay Square, Dundee DD1 1PB 01382 206699 / www.encoredundee.co.uk Dil’se Indian Restaurant 99 – 101 Perth Road, Dundee , 01382 221501 / www.dilse-restaurant.co.uk Upper floor not accessible, specify ground floor when booking. Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) Contemporary Cuisine Nethergate, Dundee 01382 909246 / www.dca.org.uk Shopping Centres Overgate Centre Off High Street, Dundee, DD1 1RW 01382 314201 Shopmobility 01382 228525 http://www.overgate.co.uk Wellgate Centre Entrances: Panmure Street/Victoria Road, Dundee 01382 225454 / www.wellgate.co.uk

Public Buildings and Libraries Dundee Central Floors 3 and 4, Wellgate Centre, Victoria Road, Dundee DD1 2DB 01382 434318 / www.dundeecity.gov.uk/centlib/main.htm Level entrance from Victoria Road, lift up to reference library, café and toilets, down to shops. All parts of library accessible. Parking: Fourth floor of multi-storey car park has door into library. Post Office General Post Office Meadowside, Dundee 01382 229191 / www.royalmail.com The GPO is completely accessible Health Centres and Chemists Dundee Health Centres http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/health/doctors.php Chemists Boots and Superdrug are in the Overgate Centre Morgan Tower Pharmacy Nethergate, Dundee 01382 221275 Hospitals All Dundee Hospitals and the Dental Hospital are now reached by telephone through the central switchboard 01382 660111. There is OB parking at each hospital: check when phoning. Ninewells Hospital

Dundee DD1 9SY

Dundee Dental Hospital Park Place Dundee DD1 4HR

Public Toilets Some adapted toilets have a lock which needs a RADAR key (National Key Scheme). This can be obtained by taking your Blue Badge to Waste Management at Marchbanks, Harefield Road, Dundee. Tel: 01382 432777 Both the Overgate and Wellgate Shopping Centres have accessible toilets open, free of charge, to the public Useful Addresses Shopmobility Dundee Overgate Lane, Overgate Centre, DD1 1UF (behind Debenhams) 01382 228525 Open Monday - Friday 9.15am - 4.15pm. Telephone to book electric scooter, wheelchair or manual wheelchairs, with volunteer escort, if required. Also temporary home-loans of manual wheelchairs. Parking. Accessible toilet. http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/orgs/orx1012.htm Tourist Info 21 Castle Street, Dundee, DD1 3AA 01382 527527 Open October - May, Monday - Saturday 9.00am - 5.00pm; May - September, Monday - Saturday 9.00am - 6.00pm, Sunday 12 noon - 4.00pm. www.angusanddundee.co.uk Manual Wheelchair Hire

01382 300084 Temporary home loans are available from Shopmobility (see above) and the British Red Cross Society, 51 Cowgate, Dundee. http://www.angusanddundee.co.uk/ BSL Signers, Tayside 36 Roseangle, Dundee, DD1 4LY 01382 221124 Fax: 01382 200025 text: 01382 227052 email: mail@taysidedeaf.org.uk Tayside Association for the Deaf provide Social Work Services for Deaf, deafened, hard of hearing and deafblind people and their families. The Interpreting Service will arrange communication support for BSL users (contact for fee information). Deaf awareness, sign language training and befriending services are also available. http://www.taysidedeaf.org.uk