Tag: Wheelchair user
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Rixos Premium Dubrovnik | Accessible Luxury Review
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What started as a search for a UK spa break became three nights in Dubrovnik at one of Croatia’s finest five star resorts. Luiz Faye reviews Rixos Premium Dubrovnik as an ambulant wheelchair user travelling with her husband, and finds a property that gets the important things right.
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Wheelchair Accessible Luxury Travel in Croatia | What to Know Before You Go
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Croatia is worth the planning. Let me start there, because what follows requires some honesty about complexity, and I do not want the complexity to obscure the conclusion. Croatia is worth it. The Adriatic is extraordinary. The food is extraordinary. The light in late summer on the Croatian coast is…
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Hot Air Ballooning as a Wheelchair User | How It Works and Where to Do It
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Hot Air Ballooning as a Wheelchair User | How It Works and Where to Do It Yes, you can. That is where this guide starts because it is the question under every search that leads here. Can I do this. Actually do it, in a way that is real and…
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Adaptive Skiing as a Wheelchair User | Luxury Ski Resorts That Get It Right
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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
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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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What Genuine Accessible Luxury Looks Like Versus Accessible on Paper
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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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What the Inclusive Edit Standard Means | How Properties Earn the Badge
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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…
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Accessible Luxury Cruise | Everything Wheelchair Users Need to Know
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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
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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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Accessible Luxury Hotels London | Five Star Without Compromise
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London’s luxury hotel market is one of the deepest in the world. The Ritz, The Savoy, Claridge’s, The Connaught, The Dorchester. The names alone carry a weight of history and expectation. Behind the names, the accessibility provision ranges from exemplary to disappointing in ways that are not always predictable from…