Category: The Edit

  • 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…

  • The Langham Melbourne | Accessible Luxury Review

    The Langham Melbourne | Accessible Luxury Review

    The hotel that started everything. This is where the standard for The Inclusive Edit was set, on a solo trip to Australia in 2018, in a room that did not feel adapted. It felt considered. Here is what that looks like in practice.

  • Hot Air Ballooning as a Wheelchair User | How It Works and Where to Do It

    Hot Air Ballooning as a Wheelchair User | How It Works and Where to Do It

    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…

  • 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…

  • Wheelchair Accessible Safari | Luxury Safari as a Wheelchair User

    Wheelchair Accessible Safari | Luxury Safari as a Wheelchair User

    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…

  • Accessible Luxury Hotels London | Five Star Without Compromise

    Accessible Luxury Hotels London | Five Star Without Compromise

    London’s luxury hotel market is one of the deepest in the world. The Ritz, The Savoy, Claridge’s, The Connaught, The Dorchester. The names alone carry a weight of history and expectation. Behind the names, the accessibility provision ranges from exemplary to disappointing in ways that are not always predictable from…

  • Reviewed Properties | The Inclusive Edit

    Reviewed Properties | The Inclusive Edit

    Every property that appears on this page has been reviewed through The Inclusive Edit standard. That standard does not begin with building regulations. It begins with a single question. Can a wheelchair user move through this space with ease, independence and the same sense of possibility as every other guest?…

  • 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…

  • The Best Accessible Luxury Hotels in the Maldives

    The Best Accessible Luxury Hotels in the Maldives

    The Maldives is the most searched luxury destination in the world. It is also one of the destinations most commonly written off by wheelchair users before the research even begins. The assumption runs like this. Overwater villas on jetties. Sand paths between restaurants. Beach access requiring negotiation with the environment…

  • The Complete Guide to Luxury Accessible Travel

    The Complete Guide to Luxury Accessible Travel

    The world’s finest luxury hotels reviewed through the one lens most travel writing ignores.