BARGE CRUISES: European Waterways Ltd. runs barge cruises in France and other parts of Europe. The six-night Burgundy Canal cruise on La Reine Pedauque is offered April through October and costs $4,300 a person, all-inclusive; gobarging.com .
GETTING THERE: American Airlines calls passengers requesting wheelchair assistance in advance to find out what help they’ll need. There was no problem stowing my wheelchair in a cabin closet.
Most trains from Paris to Dijon depart from the Gare de Lyon in Paris. Les Cars Air France ( cars-airfrance-pro.com ) offers frequent bus service (for a fee) to the train station. Our bus had a wheelchair symbol but no indication of how to use the service; the driver offered no help.
If you book your train ticket through Rail Europe ( raileurope.com ), you can’t reserve a seat in the accessible train car. E-mail your seat information to accesplus@sncf.com to request help getting on and off the train. Car No. 1 typically is the accessible
Source: Chicago Sun-Times