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Is ‘we can help you up two steps’ a workable holiday accommodation plan?

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‘It's only two steps. We can help,’ Daniel says after the apartment host sends a photograph of the entrance. His sister Leena, who uses a wheelchair, replies: ‘I want to be able to leave before you're awake.’

Four siblings are arranging a reunion weekend. The apartment they like costs £720 and has a shared kitchen where they imagined cooking together. Until the photograph arrived, they had discussed the lift but not the route from the street to it. Leena has not agreed to anyone lifting her or her chair. The host has supplied no measurements or further access details.

Another property's quote is £960. It looks more promising in the photographs, but its entrance and bathroom still need checking against what Leena needs. Daniel says that spending an extra £60 each seems wasteful when all four could use the first apartment together. Leena says the proposed solution makes her dependent on the others every time she comes and goes. She also dislikes being asked to inspect every listing while everyone else chooses restaurants.

How should the siblings divide the checking and the cost? What would count as enough information to book somewhere Leena can actually use, without making her defend the same requirement in every conversation?

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Leena has named the requirement: getting in and out independently. ‘We will be there’ does not meet it, even if the offer is affectionate. The group can stop debating the £720 apartment unless a different entrance is actually established as suitable. Nobody should treat lifting Leena or her chair as an agreed plan, and there is no basis here to judge that manoeuvre safe.

Ask Leena once which details she needs to assess, then have another sibling collect those details from the hosts: the full entrance route, relevant measurements, lift information and bathroom photographs, for example. She can decide what works for her without doing all the chasing. A more expensive listing and a reassuring photograph are still not confirmation that the second property is suitable.

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