Tag: Wheelchair user
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Whittlebury Park | Accessible Spa Hotel Review
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Returning to somewhere I used to know… 22 years on There is something strange about returning to a place that once knew you differently. Whittlebury Park was part of my life long before The Inclusive Edit existed. Before the wheelchair, before the access questions, and before I understood how much…
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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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The Langham Melbourne | Accessible Luxury Review
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The hotel that started everything. This is where the standard for The Inclusive Edit was set, on a solo trip to Australia in 2018, in a room that did not feel adapted. It felt considered. Here is what that looks like in practice.
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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…
