Did you know that Accessible Accommodation has over 50 accessible places to stay that are pet friendly? Yes, we do! Our crew all work from home, and all of us have pets. We get how important it is to take your furry buddy on holiday. Meet our team and our pets, and check out the listings that are pet friendly too. SharronSharron manages your bookings.Meet Chase.  He is a 5-year-old Labradoodle that loves helping his mum Sharron in the reservation department. While checking out our Pet-friendly options on our website is his favourite office job he also likes to bark at the postman. Chase JoshJosh manages our bookings and listings. He wrote you a poem!

Dare Magazine's Trudie McConnochie interviewed a group of mature women starting a business, including Kerry WIlliams, Founder of Accessible Accommodation and Accessible Experiences. Read the story HERE.

Recently, with International Women’s Day being celebrated, I got to thinking about the women who have been my role models, whom I have learned the most from. This is Barbie. She is my mum. She has MS and is the inspiration for Accessible Accommodation. Barbie is a force of nature. She would never stop moving. Always doing something. That stopped quite quickly after her MS diagnosis (the moving about that is). What did NOT stop, was her positive outlook and sense of humour.Barbie has taught me to laugh at the most inappropriate times such as the solemnity of a hospital. She has been bruised and battered from a fall and still finds humour and laughs at her clumsiness. She thinks hospital food is “lovely”! Yep- she is THAT positive!Musee De Tokyo- watching Barbie ride over an art installation.She has glided over an art installation in her chair to the horror of security guards in Musée De Tokyo in Paris. So enraptured with art; she didn’t realise she was literally obliterating that very art with her scooter! We collapsed from laughing so hard! (And for the rest of our tour under the watchful eyes of the Gallery’s security and numerous apologies that dissolved into a fit of giggles...)Did I do that?Barbie has taught me the importance of a positive outlook on any of life’s challenges. In fact whilst our family watch on helplessly when her MS gives her so much pain, it is Barbie who is comforting us! If there is a microscopic upside to any challenge that life throws at her, Barbie will find it. So, whilst she may no longer be a physical force of nature, her power as an influential role model continues to shine. Who inspires you? Who do you think about on International Women’s Day ?When I grow up I want to be like Barbie.

Walk A Mile In Their Shoes. Except In A Wheelchair!The age old saying “You can’t understand someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes” perfectly encapsulates why there is often a divide between what businesses THINK is accessible, and what is REALLY accessible. My own understanding came about from lived experience as a carer of a person with disability, and feedback from thousands upon thousands of our followers.  However, before Accessible Accommodation came to be,  I too was a property owner who thought she knew what accessibility was, but clearly didn't! I'd like to tell you about the weekend I learnt a very valuable lesson. My mum Barbie came to stay at our brand new wheelchair accessible holiday house in Barwon Heads, Victoria, 

Interview With 94.7 The Pulse Radio -How Accessible Accommodation Came To Be.Today I was interviewed by 94.7 The Pulse Radio, discussing Accessible Accommodation.We explained how it started; because our family has so many issues finding accessible accommodation. How, no matter how many questions I asked, we still arrived to find there was no way mum could get in the shower.Listen to the interview. Pulse Radio -Accessible AccommodationHow far we have come! Over 130 places to stay, from Houseboats, Resorts, Hotels and Holiday Homes, to even Glamping! Each of them qualified with over 50 frequently asked questions, video tours and lots of photos of the bathrooms.We discussed how NDIS has freed up people with disabilities savings. My first feedback was from a lady who had to save $15,000 to $18,000 every two years to replace her electric wheelchair. She was over the moon, as there were now options to take a holiday, something she has not had in over 15 years.