Category: The Standard
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The World’s Finest Hotels Know How to Personalise Everything. What About Accessibility?
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The world’s finest hotels know how to personalise almost everything. After researching seven leading luxury hospitality brands, Luiz Faye explores the difference between providing accessibility and giving guests the confidence to understand it before they book.
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The Inclusive Edit Standard | How I Review Luxury Travel
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Luiz Faye explains the guest experience, evidence and editorial judgement behind The Inclusive Edit, and what its As Seen In badge represents.
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Motability’s October 2026 EV prices: why I’ve extended my lease
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Some electric-car Advance Payments have risen by thousands of pounds. I compare the October changes, explain Motability’s position and share why I’ve extended my lease by nine months.
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Five Luxury Travel Icks That Reveal a Bigger Guest Experience Problem
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From shower curtains and cobbled disabled bays to disappearing dining chairs, these five luxury travel icks reveal what happens when accessibility is separated from the wider guest experience.
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A Disabled Bay Is Only the Beginning
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A broken lift at Manchester Chorlton Street sent me down a vehicle exit ramp in my wheelchair, only for the route to end at two steps. A few weeks later, the British Parking Awards showed me how much goes into making a car park work, and why accessible parking excellence…
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Beyond Motability: The Best Private-Market Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Cars for Wheelchair Users
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I am looking beyond Motability for an electric or plug-in hybrid family car that can carry my wheelchair, support a safe transfer and work properly with hand controls. These are the nine serious contenders, and the evidence behind them.
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Accessible Luxury Hotels in London: A User Experience Review
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Five luxury London hotels, one two-night business trip and a simple test of what “book direct” means for a wheelchair user. Hotels have spent years teaching us that booking direct is the smarter way to stay. The hotel’s own website should offer the clearest choice, the best understanding of its…
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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…
