Category: The Standard
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The Luxury Traveller Hidden in Plain Sight: Why Wealth, Age and Disability Belong in the Same Commercial Conversation
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Affluent older travellers are travelling more often, spending more and placing a premium on service. Yet luxury travel still separates age, wealth and disability, missing the valuable guest where those realities meet.
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The Future of Luxury Living: Why Exceptional Residences Must Be Designed for the Whole of a Life
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Branded residences, premium later living and wellness real estate are growing quickly. Luiz Faye asks whether the world’s most exceptional homes are being designed for the whole of a life.
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Everything You Need to Know About Motability in 2026
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What it costs, what it covers, how the move towards electric is working in practice and where the private premium market begins Motability is one of those things many people think they understand until they need to use it. Some assume it provides a free car. Others assume it must…
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An Accessible Bathroom for Whom?
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The room where luxury hotels reveal what they really understand about disability Luxury hotels are quick to tell you they have an accessible bathroom.Far fewer can tell you exactly who it works for. That’s because accessibility isn’t one experience. And the bathroom is often the room where a hotel’s understanding…
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Luxury Is Talking About Invisible Friction. It’s Time to Talk About Accessibility.
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Luxury hospitality is talking about invisible friction with a new confidence. The language is everywhere now. Ease, calm, emotional intelligence, guest psychology, a sense of arrival, and a stay that feels personal rather than processed. It’s a good conversation. A necessary one, actually. For a long time, luxury has relied…
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Why Business Class Can Be Access for Disabled Travellers
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Why this conversation matters more than you might think. I already know what a difference business class can make on a long-haul flight. Not because it feels impressive. Because I’ve felt the difference in my body. I’ve travelled long-haul in business class before, and what stayed with me wasn’t the…
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Luxury Accessible Cruise Travel Is Bigger Than Cabins
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Why the future of luxury at sea will be judged by the whole guest journey There is a particular kind of promise attached to luxury travel at sea. The world softens around you. The suitcase is unpacked once. The landscape moves instead. Breakfast appears with the horizon. Dinner becomes part…
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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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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…
