Archive for the ‘Self Catering’ Category

Double-Gate Farm, Godney, Somerset

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Double-Gate Farm is a lovely Georgian farmhouse on a working farm in Somerset. The Riverside Suites are large, luxury ground floor suites unique, adaptable and yet retaining comfort at the Gold Award standard associated with Double-Gate Farm. Designed for able and disabled, families and groups.

Three suites have a double and single bed and one has a double and two single beds. All beds have pocket sprung mattresses for comfort and are on gliders to enable access from any side. Ceiling fans, mood lighting and touch lighting, colour TV/DVD, and silent running fridge. Ample turning space for wheelchairs. Each suite has a river side patio area with table and chairs, access by large glass, patio doors. Watch the fish in the river or birds in the meadow.

Every suite has a wet room. In other words a very large en-suite bathroom! Comprising power shower, two wash basins at different levels, choice of shower seating if required, perching stool and WC. Just to make life a bit more interesting there are sensory mirrors which light up and demist by the movement of a hand and very funky striped grab rails. Who say’s accessibility can’t be fun . . . . . .

If you would prefer self catering accommodation, Double-Gate Farm also provide the Swallow Barn which sleeps up to 8 people. Breakfast can be ordered on a day to day basis at £10 per person. Attractive beamed lounge, with inglenook fireplace and log burner, has a colour TV and DVD.

There is a dining room, handsomely furnished in a Jacobean oak style, and for self-catering guests, an attractive and extremely functional kitchen.

The Riverside Suites and Swallow Barn have been assessed under the National Accessible Scheme and have an Access Statement. More information about these properties can be found on OpenBritain, on page 119 of the OpenBritain 2010 Guide and on the Double-Gate Farm website.

Manaros Luxury Accommodation, Wales

Friday, November 20th, 2009

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Manaros purpose built luxury accommodation sleeps up to 8 people and is located in the beautiful Welsh village of Aberdaron on the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd. The village boasts a glorious sandy beach, known as “The Land’s End of Wales” and the Llŷn Peninsula is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Seals and dolphins and all manner of bird life are plentiful.

Manaros is an accessible, single-storey, luxury accommodation purpose built for letting to groups of friends and families that wish to enjoy all the benefits of a spacious and comfortable open plan living area together with the privacy of a secluded position and 4 en suite double bedrooms.

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The Manaros website gives lots of vital and useful information for disbaled people and includes a full access statement which includes relevant information such as:

Manaros was built on one level in 2008 to the highest possible access standards.

The property has been designed to comply with the Disabilities Discrimination Act and Part M of Building Regulations to enable people, regardless of disability, to have access to and use the relevant areas of the building.

-There is ample car parking with a spot reserved for the Disabled right by the front door with external lighted area to the front door.

-There is no significant step or sill on internal or external doors -with the exception of (a) an internal door into the garage/utility room. Wheel chairs can still access this from the front garage door which is wide and on the level. (b) the conservatory door onto the patio which has a 63mm sill. The patio can still be reached by wheelchair from the adjacent lounge and by a level path around the property from the front door.

-Main external doors are double doors min 1.8 metres overall. Two escape doors are 820mm wide. Entry doors into the bedrooms and a Disabled Shower room and WC are a minimum of 830mm. Bedroom One has a 860mm wide door into the en suite. Bedrooms 2, 3, and 4 doors into their en suites are .750mm wide.

-All bedrooms and have laminate floor covering and no carpets or rugs.

-Bedroom en-suites have Marley non-slip safety flooring.

-There are two shower rooms/WC which are specially equipped for wheelchair users – Bedroom 1 and the communal Disabled Shower/WC/wash room off the hall. Both are designed to Part M of the Building Regulations.

It’s great to see that individual accommodation providers are beginning to supply such information for disabled people and you can also read the full access statement on the OpenBritain website.

For further information please contact Peter or Simon on 01758 760 652 or email them at: enquiries@aberdaronbandb.co.uk

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