Author: Luiz Faye
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Spa Garden at Iveridge Hall Review | A Slower Kind of Wellness Experience
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What began as a grey, rainy Friday became something quieter. Something steadier. Steam lifting into cold air. Warm water settling into skin. That shift you feel when a space allows you to exhale before you even realise you were holding anything in the first place. Tucked within the wider setting…
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Where Luxury Hotels Are Quietly Losing Bookings and Why It’s Happening Before Arrival
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I tried to book a one night spa-stay recently. Seventeen miles from home.No long-haul flight. No complex itinerary. Just a simple, last minute decision. All I needed to know was whether I could move around the room in my wheelchair. How large is the space? Is it actually usable? I…
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Travelling as a Wheelchair User | What Luxury Hotels Never Tell You Before You Arrive
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There is a moment, just after booking, where everything feels certain. The photos are right. The reviews are strong. The language says all the right things. Accessible. Thoughtful. Luxury. And then you arrive. The hotel has disabled parking. It just happens to sit at the end of fifty metres of…
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Rixos Premium Dubrovnik | Accessible Luxury Review
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What started as a search for a UK spa break became three nights in Dubrovnik at one of Croatia’s finest five star resorts. Luiz Faye reviews Rixos Premium Dubrovnik as an ambulant wheelchair user travelling with her husband, and finds a property that gets the important things right.
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Luxury in Santorini | Accessible Wedding Honeymoon & everything we didn’t know was possible
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Whenever I told people we were getting married on the volcanic island of Santorini, the reactions were mostly the same: “Are you mad?”“Isn’t it all steps and steep hills – how will that work with your chair?” And they weren’t wrong to ask. Santorini is known for its beauty, but…
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Wheelchair Accessible Luxury Travel in Croatia | What to Know Before You Go
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Croatia is worth the planning. Let me start there, because what follows requires some honesty about complexity, and I do not want the complexity to obscure the conclusion. Croatia is worth it. The Adriatic is extraordinary. The food is extraordinary. The light in late summer on the Croatian coast is…
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Hot Air Ballooning as a Wheelchair User | How It Works and Where to Do It
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Hot Air Ballooning as a Wheelchair User | How It Works and Where to Do It Yes, you can. That is where this guide starts because it is the question under every search that leads here. Can I do this. Actually do it, in a way that is real and…
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Adaptive Skiing as a Wheelchair User | Luxury Ski Resorts That Get It Right
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The mountain does not care that you are in a wheelchair. The snow is the snow. The slope is the slope. The feeling of moving down a mountain at speed, the cold air and the light and the particular silence of a ski run in the early morning before the…
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Wheelchair Accessible Safari | Luxury Safari as a Wheelchair User
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The Serengeti does not know you are in a wheelchair. The lion sitting forty metres from the Land Cruiser does not care. The elephant herd crossing the track ahead, the dust rising around their feet, the sound of their movement through the dry grass. None of it adjusts for you…
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Accessibility in Practice. When Intention Meets Reality
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Luiz Faye is the founder of The Inclusive Edit, a luxury travel and lifestyle platform built on lived experience, high standards and zero tolerance for performative inclusion. This is her first published reflection on the platform, it is exactly what The Inclusive Edit is here to do. The Day I…