About Holistic Thinking Holidays

Holistic Thinking Holidays offer accommodation that is equipped to meet the needs of people with disabilities and complex mobility issues for whom “wheelchair access” just isn’t enough.

We provide holiday homes with, or giving access to, equipment that meets as many of their mobility and complex needs as possible. 

We locate them in holiday parks that have greater accessibility, including on to the beaches. All on site shops, entertainment venues, pubs and take away food outlets are fully accessible. They all either have on site, or are located close to, accessible swimming pools with hoisting facilities.

Many other accessible holiday providers don't accept dogs, but we accept up to 2 pets for no additional charge!

Our caravans are in multiple locations, in different areas of the country keeping traveling times down, but also offering variety and choice.

Short breaks starting at £225 or even FREE for a family of up to  7.         

Claire Welsh is the brains behind the project, bringing over 30 years’ experience as a Paediatric Occupational Therapist, 15 years as an Expert Witness and, more recently, as a Case Manager, where she has witnessed first-hand the struggles that families with extraordinary disability challenges face when they try to book a holiday. Husband Steve retired from a career in Electronic Manufacturing to manage the operations of Holistic Thinking Holidays in 2021.

We bought our first standard wheelchair accessible holiday home at the end of 2019, at Caister on Sea Holiday Park in Norfolk. We added ramped access and full room coverage H frame ceiling hoist to the master bedroom, along with a profiling bed. In the large wet room, we provide a tilt in space shower/commode chair and there is a mobile hoist for other transfers around the accommodation – as well as transfers into the beach wheelchairs that are available for exclusive use of our guests at Caister on Sea, Burnham on Sea, Chapel St Leonards and Prestatyn. 

In the past 4 years we have added a further 8 accessible holiday homes of our own on the coast, at Burnham on Sea Holiday Village in Somerset, Golden Palm Resort, Chapel St Leonards in Lincolnshire, Oakfield Caravan Park, Towyn, in North Wales, Seal Bay Resort in Selsey, West Sussex, Newquay Holiday Park in Cornwall, Lido Beach Holiday Park in North Wales, Weymouth Bay holiday Park in Dorset and North Shore Holiday Park in Skegness 

By the end of 2024, we had provided more than 1000 family holidays, more than 120 of which were offered FREE by working with charities and directly with families with a member who has higher level of care needs. We now have capacity for up to around 600 TRULY accessible holidays every year.

Where more specialist equipment is required, we can arrange for the hire  from local suppliers, or even purchase the equipment that can then be used by future guests. Holistic Thinking Holidays aim to ensure that their holiday is as stress free as possible, in a comfortable and homely environment, with facilities on hand to keep travel to a minimum on arrival at the resort.

Uniquely, we are proud to offer a FULL cancellation refund policy, right up to the day of the holiday, as recognition of the families’ need for confidence when booking an accessible holiday, more than any other, without the inflated insurance cost. We recognise that our guests can often not control when events might prevent them from taking that holiday.

In addition, Holistic Thinking Holidays now also offer an accommodation management service for owners of similar UK properties as they press forward with their plans to make UK coastal holidays accessible to all. 

We now have 3 other caravans that we sublet for owners at Berwick Upon Tweed in Northumberland, in Bowland Fell, Yorkshire and Brean Sands in Somerset . All are fitted with an H frame ceiling hoist with our usual single profiling bed at Bowland Fell and a 4 foot double in Berwick and Brean.

Contact: Steve Welsh

Email: Steve@Holisticthinkingholidays.co.uk

Company: Holistic Thinking Holidays Limited