Weds Wrap is replaced this week with the BBS Awards for venues that excel in style, accessibility & disabled facilities. The team have been ‘flash mobbing’ around London awarding 2.5 and 3 BBS Tick certificates to those venues we’ve audited over the year. We’ve also posted a number of awards to venues out of town,…
There are two Dakota hotels in Scotland, one in Edinburgh and the other in Glasgow, they are unique boutique hotels which provide a bit of luxury at an affordable price. The hotel in Glasgow has an accessible bedroom on each floor and all have a wet room with a seat in it and hand rails. There are…
We recently reviewed some of the stylish and accessible spa’s in the UK and we thought we’d do some more research on your behalf: Four Season Hotel, Hampshire This Spa offers Sodshi Therapies which “successfully harnessed the benefits of plant essences and other natural ingredients to formulate luxurious, effective, 100% natural skincare products.” Although most of the…
Lambert Arms is in Wallington, Oxford and was originally a coaching inn which has been “refurbished to an exceptional standard.” They seem to be big on food and they “believe it is possible to provide outstanding food in stylish yet informal surroundings at sensible prices” – sounds appealing!! We haven’t been here but they seem to have really good…
Probably best known as the birthplace of Mozart, the city Salzburg has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997. It’s a wonderful place to go for a weekend or week long break. Salzburg city centre is one of the best-preserved in Austria and for that matter anywhere north of the Alps. The Altstadt, or “old…
Hotel Felix is “an independent, boutique hotel situated just over a mile from Cambridge City Centre, the hotel offers stylish, four star accommodation, set in beautiful surroundings within its own spacious grounds.” Although we haven’t audited Felix Hotel just yet, we found out that there is a ramped side entrance to the hotel which gets you…
A few of our readers asked if we knew of any accessible Spa’s so we’ve found some of the most stylish from around the UK and added our ratings on Accessibility: Cowshed Spa, Babington House “Babington House opened in 1998 for those who wanted to enjoy the countryside but weren’t prepared to compromise on…
If you’re going to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year why not treat yourself to a stylish and accessible hotel? We hear so often about festival goers slumming it and sleeping on a friend’s sofa or even the floor, but we think people deserve better. As we reported last year, you spend enough time during…
Update on Champagne & Fromage , a further visit discovered that the disabled toilet was another ‘Quasi Khasi’ i.e. just about get a wheelchair in but no grab rails so they are now downgraded to 2 BBSTicks. Shame. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. What a week I went to Charing X hospital without an escort and managed the lifts…