The Nantes Radisson Blu is a 4 star hotel, in the impressive former courts of justice building, in the centre of Nantes – one of the runners up for the 2013 EU Access City Award. The Access City Awards highlight the European cities which have done the most to improve their overall level of disabled…
Last week I went on a long awaited visit to South Place Hotel in the city. It’s a hidden gem as it looks like an office block on the outside – The Musical Lieutenant waited outside for 10 mins before she realised she was standing by the entrance. We did a provisional review which looked…
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…
At BBS we focus more on the destinations (the venues we review) than the journey to get to them but public transport is still a real bug bear. It’s just lagging behind in terms of access and we know that a lot of our readers agree. Let the rant commence: It’s frustrating to have to…
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…