Piercing Pirate Turnhout

Piercing Pirate is a piercing studio with branches in Turnhout and Antwerp — and the difference in wheelchair accessibility between the two campuses is significant. This page describes the Turnhout campus, which according to our first-hand experience is extremely wheelchair-friendly. For the Antwerp location: see Piercing Pirate Antwerp — unfortunately that one is not adapted.

The Turnhout campus has a step-free main entrance where you can easily enter with a wheelchair. The shop space offers sufficient manoeuvring room between the display cases. Practical point: some display cases are at standing height and difficult to see into from a wheelchair — but the staff are very proactive about this. They take piercings out of the display cases that match what you are looking for so that you can view everything properly.

Experience during the piercing (first-hand, 2026): the team set everything aside in the piercing cabin to ensure that the wheelchair user could remain seated during the piercing. The piercer adapted the setup around the wheelchair — moved everything — in order to carry out the work professionally without the client having to transfer. This approach perfectly illustrates what "extremely wheelchair accessible" concretely means: not only removing physical barriers, but also adapting the service itself to the visitor.

Our recommendation: for PRM visitors and wheelchair users, this is one of the most wheelchair-friendly piercing addresses we have come across. Encouraging for the sector as a whole.