Last week Max & I went to the Independent Hotel Show at Olympia to spread the word about BBS and our community of people who want more than a Holiday Inn Express. This indeed surprised a few people as we told them the disability market for hospitality was worth £2Bn a year in the UK…
Update Oct 2013: The Crowne Plaza is now the Ace Hotel and the restaurant is Hoi Polloi , created by the people from Bistrotheque. Described as “an English modernist brasserie”. If it’s anything like Bistrotheque it should be good. Full review will follow but on the surface it seems that accessibility and facilities remain the same i.e.very good…
Just a quick update to say Malmaison Liverpool has been visited and it is definitely ’boutique-chain’ stylish (contradiction in terms??), but still haven’t seen the disabled rooms, see our previous post. So full 2.5 BBS Ticks for common areas. Also Mes Amis was recommended by Conde Nast as a good, secret restaurant in Hammersmith but…
Hi again, after a week of downtime due to a server ‘impairment’ (we all have one!) we’re back and running. It had to be the week when I met (read ambushed) Alan Hansen at The London EDITION in Berner’s St., London. I’ll tell you about the hotel first – The EDITION appealed to me as they say…
Paul and Amanda have been holiday-ing in Sicily (alright for some) and whilst they were there they kept note of disabled access and the nicest places to eat. Here’s the first installment of their holiday blog, the rest will be on BBS very soon. Day 1: Marsala We decided to travel to Tripani on Ryanair.…
The Montpellier Chapter Hotel in Cheltenham shows that you can have style and good accessibility even in a grade II listed building. The four star hotel takes the positive points of the early Victorian villa in which it is found and mixes it with the funky design and the modern notion of disabled access. So…
Crazy Bear hotel in Beconsfield is in a listed building but they have done their best to make it accessible and incredibly stylish. They have renovated the entire hotel to “provide dramatic architecture and uncompromised luxury” and they achieved it! This Crazy Bear hotel opened in 2008 and since then it has received “spectacular international reviews including Condé Nast’s…
Dakota in Edinburgh is the sister hotel to the previously reviewed Dakota hotel in Glasgow. This hotel “offers excellent service, luxurious interiors, innovative style and an award-winning bar & grill.” It’s 10 minutes outside Edinburgh sitting alone like a Japanese electronics factory. Like the Glasgow Dakota hotel there are accessible bedrooms on every floor with wider…
La Suite West is a 5 star boutique hotel in a fabulous London location, right next to Hyde Park. The hotel is “the minimalist and latest creation of famed British designer Anouska Hempel.” We haven’t been here yet but we found out about their disabled access and facilities and it sounds great! The hotel’s entrance is flat and the bar and…