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…
The Parcel Yard, is inside King’s Cross Station. I went there a while back and had a really good evening with a friend and some Hendrick’s gin… It’s quite a busy pub but because it is so big that shouldn’t make it hard to get around inside, unlike some pubs and bars which are a…
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…
Yesterday we profiled how it has become easier for less able people to drive a car. Today we’re going to go one step further and tell you about Aerobility – the charity dedicated to teaching disabled people how to fly a plane. If space is the final frontier, then the skies are surely the penultimate…
We are called Blue Badge Style so it would be amiss of us not to take a look into stylish accessible vehicles at some point. For a long time the notion of a stylish wheelchair accessible vehicle (WAV) was a completely alien concept. But nowadays there are far more options out there for less able…
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…
The New Ellington is a hotel in Leeds but we are only reviewing the bar and restaurant. A friend of Blue Badge Style, Danni, has been there but we called up to confirm and get more details about the disabled access and facilities. We managed to find out that the entrance of the hotel has 2 steps…