Category: Europe

  • The Santorini Stay I Was Told Wasn’t Made For People Like Me

    The Santorini Stay I Was Told Wasn’t Made For People Like Me

    At Santorini Sky, high above the island on Mount Profitis Ilias, I found a private luxury villa experience that quietly changed what accessible travel in Santorini is allowed to look like. The Santorini everyone dreams of Some places tell you they aren’t made for you before you’ve even arrived. Not…

  • Santorini Experts: The Private Tour That Made More of the Island Feel Possible

    Santorini Experts: The Private Tour That Made More of the Island Feel Possible

    Some places stay with you because they’re beautiful. Others stay with you because of how they make you feel. Santorini has been both for me. Last year when I toured the island, I saw some extraordinary places. I lit a candle at the monastery at Profitis Ilias, stood at viewpoints…

  • TUI Blue Meltemi: A Milestone Santorini Stay

    TUI Blue Meltemi: A Milestone Santorini Stay

    There is something quietly revealing about returning to a hotel. The first time can be magic. Especially when the first time was your wedding. A wedding wraps a place in so much emotion that it becomes difficult to separate the service from the sentiment. You remember the flowers, the family,…

  • Sail Away Santorini: The Private Caldera Cruise that Began with Yes

    Sail Away Santorini: The Private Caldera Cruise that Began with Yes

    There are some experiences you quietly file away as “probably not for me.” Not because you don’t want them. Usually because you want them so much that you almost don’t want to ask the question. Will this work? Will it be safe? Does anyone know what to do? Will I…

  • Rixos Premium Dubrovnik | Accessible Luxury Review

    Rixos Premium Dubrovnik | Accessible Luxury Review

    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.

  • Luxury in Santorini | Accessible Wedding Honeymoon & everything we didn’t know was possible

    Luxury in Santorini | Accessible Wedding Honeymoon & everything we didn’t know was possible

    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…

  • Wheelchair Accessible Luxury Travel in Croatia | What to Know Before You Go

    Wheelchair Accessible Luxury Travel in Croatia | What to Know Before You Go

    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…

  • Adaptive Skiing as a Wheelchair User | Luxury Ski Resorts That Get It Right

    Adaptive Skiing as a Wheelchair User | Luxury Ski Resorts That Get It Right

    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…

  • 24 Hours at The Ritz-Carlton Abama | Tenerife’s Golden Coast

    24 Hours at The Ritz-Carlton Abama | Tenerife’s Golden Coast

    Inclusive luxury at The Ritz-Carlton Abama is embedded in the environment, not explained in words. Some places slow you down before you realise it. Not because they ask you to. Because everything around them makes it possible. The Ritz-Carlton Abama is one of those places. In twenty-four hours it showed…