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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…
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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…
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Accessibility in Practice. When Intention Meets Reality
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…
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What Genuine Accessible Luxury Looks Like Versus Accessible on Paper
There is a gap. Every wheelchair user who has ever booked a hotel described as accessible knows the gap. The photograph looks right. The description says adapted bathroom. The price says five star. And then you arrive. The shower has a step. The grab rail is on the wrong side.…
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Accessible Luxury Cruise | Everything Wheelchair Users Need to Know
Cruise is the sector of the luxury travel market that has, in many ways, done the most structural work on accessibility. A modern luxury cruise ship is in some respects the most accessible luxury travel environment in existence. Everything is in one place. There are no cobbled streets. There is…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
