Date of Visit: June 2, 2025
Instead of going straight to our hotel and hoping to be able to check in early, we decided to visit the USS Midway Museum to pass the time until hotel check in. As Mik has long been interested in military and particularly the Navy, the Midways is something we have considered the past few trips to San Diego, especially since we had been downtown to leave on a cruise, but we were not sure if it would be accessible enough to be worth it. The night before I had picked up the brochure for the USS Midway Museum at the Yuma hotel and one of the things it mentioned was 70% of exhibits had elevator access, which convinced us it was enough to be worth visiting.
After going through security, there is an elevator up to board the ship.
On the main deck, Mik enjoyed looking at the aircrafts. We also found that there was an ADA Video Tour kiosk with videos about the areas that were not wheelchair accessible in this area. Mik really enjoyed this and was then disappointed when the one up on the Flight Deck was out of order. There is an audio tour available, which you can use their devices or use your own phone, which made us extra disappointed that they then did not have an option to use your own phone for the ADA video tours.
Mik really enjoyed that he could go into the CH-46 Sea Knight via the back.
It is very steep, though, so it was a little scary on the way back out.
Before going to the Below Decks area, we had lunch at the cafe. It was rather overpriced, but not any different than other tourist attraction type places and the food was good (Mik got fish tacos).
A good portion of the Below Decks is not accessible and we forgot to check for the ADA Video Tour on this level, but we still really enjoyed this level because they do have a lift to go into their newest exhibit area about engineering was really well done.
It was good the I rode with Mik and not Dad as at the top it has a a low overhead to watch out for.
Mik enjoyed the area where you could touch the objects on the table and it would tell you about it.
The exhibit about shipboard fire is also impressive.
Overall we really enjoyed the USS Midway Museum and did not feel like we missed out by not going to the areas Mik could not. I think it would have been good to see the movie, but we kept being in that area right after it started and Mik did not want to wait around for the next showing.
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