Category: The Standard

  • What to Ask Before Booking an Accessible Luxury Hotel

    What to Ask Before Booking an Accessible Luxury Hotel

    The accessibility page on most hotel websites is not written for you. It is written by a marketing team, reviewed by a legal team and published to demonstrate compliance. It tells you that an accessible room exists. It tells you the room has been adapted for guests with disabilities. It…

  • Nothing Is Off Limits | Extraordinary Experiences for Wheelchair Users

    Nothing Is Off Limits | Extraordinary Experiences for Wheelchair Users

    The list of things wheelchair users are supposed to accept as beyond reach is long. Safari. Hot air ballooning. Skiing. Diving. Horseback riding. Paragliding. Cooking classes in a Tuscan farmhouse. Kayaking in the Norwegian fjords. Watching the sunrise from a balloon basket above the Serengeti. The list is wrong. Not…

  • Hidden Disability in Luxury Travel | What Hotels Are Getting Wrong and How to Change It

    Hidden Disability in Luxury Travel | What Hotels Are Getting Wrong and How to Change It

    The conversation about accessible travel has, for most of its history, been a conversation about wheelchairs. Ramps. Roll-in showers. Pool hoists. The language and the images and the policy have all been built around physical mobility and the wheelchair as its symbol. Eighty per cent of people with a disability…