Category: UK and Ireland

  • LEVEN Manchester Review: An Accessible Room I’d Happily Live In

    LEVEN Manchester Review: An Accessible Room I’d Happily Live In

    Inside LEVEN Manchester’s accessible Living Space, where thoughtful design, a generous wet room, an open-plan kitchen and a proper freestanding bath sit together with very little compromise.

  • Access Manchester with the Family: Bubbles, a Race Across the City and Games at Freight Island

    Access Manchester with the Family: Bubbles, a Race Across the City and Games at Freight Island

    Bubbles, clues, giant pizza slices and a few unexpected turns. We explored Manchester as a family through Bubble Planet, Race Across Manchester and Freight Island to see how the whole city break worked in practice.

  • Staycity Manchester Piccadilly: The Accessible Family Apartment That Gets the Details Right

    Staycity Manchester Piccadilly: The Accessible Family Apartment That Gets the Details Right

    Staycity Manchester Piccadilly gave our family something surprisingly difficult to find: a two-bedroom accessible apartment with space, independence and thoughtful design that worked beautifully in everyday family life.

  • Five Yorkshire Hotels With Accessible Bathrooms You Should Know About

    Five Yorkshire Hotels With Accessible Bathrooms You Should Know About

    From country-house indulgence to a polished city break From marble, underfloor heating and Bulgari products to the rare option of a bath in an accessible room, these five Yorkshire stays make the bathroom part of the reason to book. I love a beautiful hotel bathroom. Give me a deep bath,…

  • Gluten-Free Dining Across Yorkshire and the North

    Gluten-Free Dining Across Yorkshire and the North

    Nine restaurants helping coeliac diners eat with greater confidence Some restaurant experiences begin at the door. A glass of Champagne. Canapés moving around the room. The first glimpse of a dining space that makes you feel you’ve chosen well. Others begin much earlier. For someone living with coeliac disease, the…

  • Spa Day Bliss at Breedon: When Luxury and Access Feel Like Part of the Same Experience

    Spa Day Bliss at Breedon: When Luxury and Access Feel Like Part of the Same Experience

    Some places become part of how you celebrate. The Spa at Breedon Priory has quietly become that place for Claire and me. We’d visited before and loved it, so when we were planning a birthday spa day, going back felt like an easy decision. It had already proved itself as…

  • Manchester’s Summer Culture Edit

    Manchester’s Summer Culture Edit

    Audio Described theatre, cinema, exhibitions and cultural experiences for blind and visually impaired audiences Manchester knows how to do a summer calendar. Theatre nights.Gallery mornings.Cinema afternoons.A reason to stay in town a little longer after lunch. This first Access Manchester Summer Culture Edit brings together Audio Described events and cultural…

  • Tattu Leeds: Style, Service and the Luxury of Things Working

    Tattu Leeds: Style, Service and the Luxury of Things Working

    Some places make their first impression before you’ve even reached the table. Tattu Leeds is one of them. Cherry blossom. Low lighting. A little bit of theatre. It has that particular restaurant atmosphere where someone has clearly thought about how the room should feel, not just how it should look.…

  • The Night Before Santorini: Why Accessible Milestone Travel Begins Before the Flight

    The Night Before Santorini: Why Accessible Milestone Travel Begins Before the Flight

    There is a moment before every big trip where the holiday has technically begun, but your body hasn’t quite caught up with the idea yet. The cases are packed. The passports have been checked more times than necessary. Someone has said, “Have you got the chargers?” at least twice. And…

  • Whittlebury Park | Accessible Spa Hotel Review

    Whittlebury Park | Accessible Spa Hotel Review

    Returning to somewhere I used to know… 22 years on There is something strange about returning to a place that once knew you differently. Whittlebury Park was part of my life long before The Inclusive Edit existed. Before the wheelchair, before the access questions, and before I understood how much…