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4 nights onboard P&O Ventura, sailing to Amsterdam Last Spring, we were considering taking the kids on a city break and started to research. We found that everything we looked at started to get quite complicated for just a few days. If flying was involved, we’d not only need conversations with the airline to make sure assistance would be in place but sort out specialist seating onboard the flight and ensure the airline would accept that too! Even with all that sorted, there were still the anxieties around how comfortable Miss S would be on the flight, the toilet situation AND if Miss S's chair would arrive at our destination in one piece. We also then needed to think about a wheelchair accessible way to get from an airport in to a city centre! Once again, we were a little bamboozled by the amount of planning involved. Perhaps we may be brave to try it out for a longer holiday some time, but suddenly a relaxed few days away, was not feeling that relaxed!!! We also looked at gett...

I hadn’t heard of the citizenM brand until I met a lovely lady at The World Travel Market who was representing citizenM, having travelled over from their headquarters in The Netherlands.  Following our meeting, I explored the citizenM website and it struck me how different the brand is, in how quirky and individual their hotels are. You’ll find 4 citizenM hotels within London, one in Glasgow and more in other major cities outside the UK. There are 5 citizenM hotels in Paris, as well as hotels in Rome, Zurich, New York, Kuala Lumpur and many more across the globe! They’ve certainly grown since opening their first hotel at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam in 2008!   We decided to give the citizenM Tower of London a try on a chilly, mid-January weekend. The hotel is in a great location, as you guessed it, right by the Tower of London, of which you can get a great view of, from the hotel’s cool rooftop bar! The following is what we discovered from our visit from an wheelchair access po...