Reply to "comment on 'Spatial optical solitons in highly nonlocal media"'

In their Comment, Petrovi? et al. claim that some of the results previously published by us on the use of the "accessible soliton" model of Snyder et al. are incorrect, and they claim that the correct results were published elsewhere. In order to give our perspective on the problem, we discuss and clarify some of the existing literature and our own work on the subject, underlining the importance of the accessible soliton approximation and its recent improvements towards enabling a general understanding of light self-confinement in highly nonlocal media, both quantitatively and qualitatively.