Tag: Accessible design

  • What Genuine Accessible Luxury Looks Like Versus Accessible on Paper

    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.…

  • What the Inclusive Edit Standard Means | How Properties Earn the Badge

    What the Inclusive Edit Standard Means | How Properties Earn the Badge

    The Inclusive Edit badge exists for one reason. Not compliance. Compliance is the floor. Compliance is the building regulation minimum that a hotel meets because it must, not because it has decided to. Compliance does not tell a wheelchair user that a hotel has thought about their experience. It tells…

  • 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…

  • 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…