Yes, we've had quite a few work nights out there and I found the food was pretty good - certainly better than what I was expecting from a PI restuarant.
It's certainly in line with their strategy. Whether it is the right strategy is another matter.
If it is an internal hotel restaurant then I believe that your custom is no longer desired.
I thought you could do that at Premier Inn, it was even advertised to do so in some places.
I imagine very few people took advantage of this anyway, it was never very heavily advertised, I only knew it existed as I had a friend who worked at a PI.
I’m surprised at that as last month when I stayed in a PI when I went for breakfast I wasn’t asked for my room number
You always could. My understanding of PI plans is that you won't be able to.
I wonder if that means they will shrink the breakfast areas to add an extra room or two, if they don't need to accommodate "outsiders"?
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Doesn’t fill me with confidence seeing as I’m staying at a Travelodge tonight!Another day, another article about Travelodge overbooking hotels and then screwing over the people they’ve bumped. Their transformation into the Ryanair of the hotel world is complete.
We booked a Travelodge but were forced to move hotel after 1am
We told it of our 11pm arrival time but when we got there our room was no longer available as it had ‘overbooked’
I'm sure you'll be fine, I've stayed in numerous TLs over the past few years and never had an issue with the booking.
Tribe are a mid-market Accor brand, like Mercure with a funkier paint scheme. I stayed at the one in Amsterdam and it was good, comfortable and clean although expensive breakfast
If you’re driving in from anywhere south/southwest of Manchester Airport, and on a budget, Knutsford Travelodge is a bit grim but can be very cheap.
)The breakfast at £11.99 is reasonable value, even at a Wetherspoons it would be close to £10 for large breakfast, coffee and juice. Yes if you only want a small breakfast and a coffee then elsewhere (including Wetherspoons) would be cheaper, but a lot of places would charge at least £10 for a full English now anyway. If you have kids I think that is where Premier Inn is very cheap as Children eat free, so one parent and two kids is still £11.99.At the Premier Inn I’m staying in which is just their ‘Thyme’ brand I’m 3 out of 3 so far just strolling straight in to the breakfast and tucking in without anyone checking I’ve actually paid for it! (Just before Lenny Henry dobs me in I have
It’s certainly not something I would go out of my way to pay for as a non guest though, you would get better value pretty much anywhere else as whilst it may be ‘all you can eat’ in reality how much breakfast can one person eat before feeling rubbish all day afterwards!
Not when they are converting them into rooms.
Well that hasn’t happened yet, every Premier Inn I’ve passed with a closed restaurant looks abandoned
I would say Premier-Inn / Whitbread need to convert to more rooms quickly. Or are they waiting to see if hotel bookings plummet due to lack of a known brand restaurant. Otherwise, as you say, repeat bookings might ebb a bit if the adjacent former restaurant is what they see,
I haven't been to one for a while, what do they do about breakfast if the restaurant area is closed? Or does that just mean closed for dining, open for breakfast?
The Albert Beefeater/Premier Inn in Colchester is now exactly that - the Beefeater closed in 2024 and now the hotel has also been closed by Whitbread. It's been sold to Mitchells and Butlers alongside a few other sites and will reopen as a Toby Carvery/Innkeepers Collection.
