The award for Best Budget Hotel Brand has been scooped by Premier Inn at the 2012 Business Travel Awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. The Whitbread owned budget brand took the award ahead of Travelodge and Hampton by Hilton for the third consecutive year. The awards have been happening for 17 years, [...]

Higher profits can be largely attributed to Premier Inn properties in the capital, hotel firm Whitbread announced this week. The company said in a statement that Premier Inns in London have performed much better than those elsewhere in the UK, which helped to push its half-year profits up by more than 15 per cent. The [...]

Hotel firm Whitbread has announced plans to open three new Premier Inn brand hotels in Yorkshire. The news comes amid the company’s ambitious growth plans, as it aims to offer 65,000 hotel rooms in the UK within the coming five years. Now, three new Premier Inn properties -one near Harrogate International House, one in the [...]

Whitbread, owner of the Premier Inn hotel brand, has announced that it might no longer include baths in rooms at new sites. The move is part of the group’s corporate sustainability programme Good Together and would mean massive savings on water as well as helping to reduce its carbon footprint. The scheme has been set [...]

A recent survey, carried out on behalf of Premier Inn, suggests that the cost of attending a wedding is rising at an astonishing rate. The survey found that hotel rooms, presents and new outfits will cost wedding guests £6.1 billion. On average, guests will spend £547 each time they see a friend or a member [...]

Whitbread owned Premier Inn is claiming that guests are flocking back to the brand, following a push to encourage customers to go on weekend breaks, and a recent advertising campaign featuring comedian, Lenny Henry. Alan Parker, the company’s chief executive, said that times were austere, but that the chain’s strategy of supplying a reasonably priced [...]

After a 20-year hiatus from television advertising, budget hotel chain Travelodge will make a return this week with Mr Sleep and the Zzzz Squad. Featuring a gang of cuddly toys, the new commercials aim to focus on the fact that Travelodge is the affordable place to stay for those looking to get a good night’s [...]

A new study from eDigital Research shows that many online travel firms are not meeting consumer expectations. Premier Inn, Monarch, Eurotunnel and Virgin Holidays all performed well. But budget carriers were among the lowest scored companies in the survey. According to the research of 45 top online travel firms, websites of low cost airlines only [...]

Reports have now come in that show a hotel night porter from Wolverhampton has been cleared of all rape and sexual assault charges after a jury decided a teenage mother had lied about him attacking her. The man, Charles Mukendu, age 34, had been accused of raping the 18 year old girl at the Premier [...]

Right now, work to turn a historic Paignton seafront pub into a multi-million pound hotel is due to start in about a month. The hotel giant Whitbread hopes to open a 33 bedroom, £2 million new Premier Inn by early summer. The low budget hotel company has been given permission for the conversion and new [...]