Tag: Accessible Travel

  • Faithful to the Experience: Five Wheelchair-Accessible Castle Hotels Worth Knowing

    Faithful to the Experience: Five Wheelchair-Accessible Castle Hotels Worth Knowing

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    From Thornbury Castle’s Tudor character to Castle Leslie’s adaptable bathrooms, this feature explores how five historic hotels approach wheelchair access without losing the sense of occasion.

  • Condé Nast’s Top 20 Indian Ocean Resorts: What Do They Tell Disabled Travellers?

    Condé Nast’s Top 20 Indian Ocean Resorts: What Do They Tell Disabled Travellers?

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    Condé Nast readers have chosen their twenty best resorts in the Indian Ocean for 2026. I looked beyond the ranking to see what those same properties tell disabled travellers about accommodation, transfers and the experience once they arrive

  • Five Luxury Travel Icks That Reveal a Bigger Guest Experience Problem

    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.

  • New Maldives Luxury Resort Openings: What We Know About Accessibility So Far

    New Maldives Luxury Resort Openings: What We Know About Accessibility So Far

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    New Maldives resorts reveal what luxury hospitality values now. We examine the access information published by V Villas, Mondrian, Maxx Royal, Coco de Mer and Hyatt Regency Samarafushi, including the questions still worth asking.

  • Letters from Luiz: The stories we don’t see from the outside

    Letters from Luiz: The stories we don’t see from the outside

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    An unplanned speech, a little toy till that still rang, and questions that followed me from the road to the hotel room. A personal letter about the stories we don’t see.

  • Staycity Manchester Piccadilly: The Accessible Family Apartment That Gets the Details Right

    Staycity Manchester Piccadilly: The Accessible Family Apartment That Gets the Details Right

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    Staycity Manchester Piccadilly gave our family something surprisingly difficult to find: a two-bedroom accessible apartment with space, independence and thoughtful design that worked beautifully in everyday family life.

  • Maldives Transfers for Disabled Travellers: What to Know Before You Go

    Maldives Transfers for Disabled Travellers: What to Know Before You Go

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    From seaplanes over the atolls to speedboats leaving Malé behind, the transfer is part of the Maldives experience. Here’s what disabled travellers need to know about routes, boarding, mobility equipment and choosing a journey that works.

  • An Accessible Bathroom for Whom?

    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…

  • A New Way to Wander | RSPB Old Moor

    A New Way to Wander | RSPB Old Moor

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    Experiencing Old Moor with ease, presence, and a different kind of freedom We return to Old Moor often. Not out of routine.Out of recognition. It is one of those places that allows you to arrive exactly as you are and leave feeling a little more yourself. Somewhere we come back…

  • The Lowry Hotel | Manchester                                          The Kind of Place You Return To

    The Lowry Hotel | Manchester The Kind of Place You Return To

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    There are hotels you enjoy. And then there are hotels you return to. Not because they are the most extravagant.Not because they are the newest. Because something about how they feel stays with you. I first stayed at The Lowry Hotel a couple of years ago. A last-minute decision. One…