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New Forest Accessible Accommodation Our Bench - The New Forest's only truly accessible self catering accommodation - holiday cottages in Lymington, wheelchair accessible & a great location!

Our Bench is a family-run business offering three fully accessible, self-catering holiday cottages in Pennington, Lymington. We are dedicated to providing barrier-free holiday accommodation for people with disabilities, life-limiting conditions, and their families or carers. Each cottage has been carefully designed to offer a warm, inclusive space where guests can relax, feel at home, and enjoy a much-needed break. With accommodation suitable for between two and five guests, we focus on comfort, dignity, and a true sense of belonging. All of our holiday homes are wheelchair accessible and equipped with specialist features such as profiling beds, ceiling track hoists, accessible bathrooms, and mobility-friendly layouts. We also provide essential equipment including tilt-in-space shower chairs, standard shower chairs, commodes, standing aids, manual wheelchairs, walkers, and overbed tables — helping to reduce the stress of travel and preparation for families with additional needs. We believe in more than just providing accommodation. Our service includes personalised guidance on places to visit, accessible attractions, local dining, and experiences across Lymington, the New Forest and the South Coast, all tailored to suit individual needs and preferences. Our Bench supports a wide range of people. This includes individuals with physical disabilities or complex medical needs, families caring for loved ones with life-limiting conditions, older adults with reduced mobility, and carers in need of respite in a safe and accessible environment. For many of our guests, a stay with us may be one of the few opportunities to enjoy a holiday where their needs are truly understood and met. We aim to make each break not just possible, but enjoyable, memorable and restorative. At the heart of Our Bench is a desire to make a difference, one family at a time. We take great care to welcome each guest personally, to listen to their stories, and to adapt our accommodation where possible to meet specific requirements. Our guests often tell us how meaningful their stay has been, and many return again and again. For those who wish, we offer complimentary photography sessions in the local area, giving families a chance to take home lasting memories from their time in Lymington. Our story began in the 1980s, when we first started welcoming holiday guests to our family cottages. Over the years, we gradually adapted our properties to support guests with limited mobility, and then further evolved to meet the needs of those with more complex care requirements. Today, Our Bench has become known for its warm welcome, specialist knowledge, and truly accessible holiday experiences. We believe everyone deserves the chance to enjoy a break, and we are proud to play a part in making that possible. Join our mailist: https://stats.sender.net/forms/dNky8N/view

The final question on my podcast if you listened was "And final question: if you could take a dream trip tomorrow with n...
13/10/2026

The final question on my podcast if you listened was

"And final question: if you could take a dream trip tomorrow with no barriers, where would you go?"

The answer was here.. my walk today - i can holiday everyday 😄

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1wAX1ncFDYelSuFKfZzjFN

We’re finalists 🎉Our Bench has been named as one of just three finalists for the Moore Barlow Award for Outstanding Cust...
07/10/2026

We’re finalists 🎉

Our Bench has been named as one of just three finalists for the Moore Barlow Award for Outstanding Customer Care in the 2026 New Forest Brilliance in Business Awards.

With around 49% of our bookings since 2020 coming from returning guests, customer care means a lot to us.

For us, that is not simply repeat business. It is trust.

Thank you to every guest who has stayed, returned, recommended us or helped us improve.

Being a finalist already feels pretty special.
https://www.ourbench.co.uk/Reviews/Outstanding-Customer-Care.html

04/10/2026

What does using a ceiling hoist on holiday actually look like?

Sometimes a photo of a hoist simply isn’t enough.
With our guest’s permission, this short video shows the ceiling hoist in Garden Bench being used for a transfer from wheelchair to bed.

For someone considering an accessible holiday, being able to actually see the space, the position of the bed and how the equipment can be used may answer questions that measurements and descriptions alone cannot.

This is why we’re starting to share more real guest videos. Not polished demonstrations, just genuine examples of what worked for somebody staying with us.

Garden Bench is our largest cottage, sleeping up to five, with a ceiling hoist in the master bedroom, a profiling bed, level access and an accessible wet room.

You don’t need to use any of these features to stay here. They simply make a New Forest holiday possible for more people.

Thank you to our guest for allowing us to share this. ❤️

Something to look forward to in October - lots of local New Forest produce and maybe a gin! https://www.facebook.com/sha...
02/10/2026

Something to look forward to in October - lots of local New Forest produce and maybe a gin!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19oPsGVdTC/

A whole weekend celebrating some of the brilliant local producers and makers we have here in the New Forest.

The New Forest Marque Autumn Market is coming to Shallowmead Nurseries in Lymington, with more than 20 local businesses bringing food, drink, handmade gifts, art, jewellery and plenty more.

There’ll also be live music, 820 Spirits distillery tours and Mabel’s Café to stop by while you’re there.

24 & 25 October
Free entry and parking

Take a look at what’s planned: https://bit.ly/4AZ74mr

01/10/2026

New Forest car park closures over the coming weeks as the New Forest drifts occur - this is for guest safety, as the ponies are rounded up for their checks.. if driving in these areas please stop if requested for running horses.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1FnwAbmxuD/

Something to book if you are joining as at Half Term ... I had great fun on my  adventure!  https://www.facebook.com/sha...
29/09/2026

Something to book if you are joining as at Half Term ... I had great fun on my adventure!

https://www.facebook.com/share/19NXKeKRsu/

👻🎃 SPOOKY ADVENTURES ARE COMING TO WETWHEELS HAMBLE! 🎃👻

Get ready to dress up, climb aboard and set out for some Halloween fun! 🧙‍♀️🕷️🚤

Our Halloween Trips are running from 28th–31st October and are going to be full of spooky surprises, Halloween fun and plenty of happy faces! 🎃👻

Even better… these trips are kindly subsidised by the Co-op, helping us keep these special adventures accessible for everyone. 💙

🎃 Book your spooky trip online now and join us for some Halloween fun on the water!
👻 Spaces are limited, so don’t get caught out! 🕸️

‘Making boating accessible to everyone’ 💙

📍 Departing from Mercury Marina

To book:
☎️Call Suez on:- 07733 944321
OR
Website:- www.wetwheelshamble.co.uk
All Bookings:- https://wetwheelsfoundation.org/wetwheels-operator/wetwheels-hamble/
Please donate at:- https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/wetwheelshamble
Follow us on Facebook:- https://www.facebook.com/WetwheelsHamble

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Apparently, we have the opportunity to be rubbish… 😂That might be one of our favourite opening lines to a review!The gue...
27/09/2026

Apparently, we have the opportunity to be rubbish… 😂

That might be one of our favourite opening lines to a review!

The guest continued:

“There are very few holiday lets that cater for those who have complex access needs… This means that Our Bench has the opportunity to be rubbish and still flourish. Thankfully it's completely the opposite and it is totally FABULOUS.”

And that means rather a lot coming from someone who has now stayed with us three times, in both Garden Bench and Little Bench.

When a ceiling hoist, shower chair or other specialist equipment is essential, there simply aren't enough places to choose from. We know that.

But we never want someone to choose Our Bench just because we're one of the few places they can stay.
We want you to choose us because the cottage works for you, it's spotlessly clean, the equipment you need is ready, you have good information before you arrive, there's plenty to discover locally and you feel you're in good hands.
And hopefully you'll want to come back. ❤️

Thank you for a fabulous Google review, and especially for that opening line. It made our day!

25/09/2026

If a guest tells us the ceiling hoist is essential to their holiday, we make sure it’s working before they arrive.
Our ceiling hoists have their formal LOLER thorough examination every six months, but we don’t just rely on that.
Before every new set of guests arrives, we also check the hoist is operating as expected.
Because if you need a ceiling hoist, arriving to discover it isn’t working isn’t a minor inconvenience. It could mean your holiday simply can’t happen as planned.
It’s one of those little things we do behind the scenes at Our Bench, because accessible equipment needs to be there and it needs to work.

20/09/2026

Wow..

🦉 HE’S HOME! ❤️

We have the news we were hoping for!
Our beautiful Barn Owl has fully recovered from his wing injury and has been released back at Lepe, into his own territory.

Wildlife Rescue at Moyles Court shared the wonderful video of him being released and described him as “a very lucky bird who now has a second chance at life.”

That second chance happened because people cared.

Thank you to the Lymington Coastguard Rescue Team who helped us that evening, the incredible volunteers at Wildlife Rescue who cared for him, and every single person who donated, shared our fundraiser or followed his story.

We stopped for one injured owl at the side of the road. We had no idea where that evening would lead.

Now he's flying free again. 🦉

Thank you for helping us turn his rescue into a happy ending, and for helping Wildlife Rescue be there for the next animal that needs them.

If you want to donate there is still time - https://www.justgiving.com/page/barnowl

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Lodge Road
Lymington
SO418HH

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