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I recently wrote about Premier Inn’s bid for domination in London but if recent news is anything to go by, it’s clear their main competitor Travelodge won’t be taking it lying down. Travelodge claims after all to be the UK’s fastest growing hotel brand and recently announced the opening of its 486th hotel in the City, a stone’s throw from [...]
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I’ve just been watching Babylon 5 (science fiction) and it’s intriguing how although humans develop telepathy, starships, hyperspace travel and massive space stations, the beds haven’t changed at all. And that’s as it should be, since we all know what a bed should be like… Or do we? Travelodge commissioned a futurologist a while ago [...]
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My review of the Tune Hotel on Westminster Bridge Road really opened my eyes to how a budget hotel chain works. It’s not as simple as it looks, because to create an economically-feasible operation you have to start right back at first principles – this is something Tune Hotels has done well, rethinking and reengineering all aspects [...]
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The latest eagerly-anticipated hotel offering from The Dorchester Collection, 45 Park Lane, opened last week. And with room rates starting from £395 we were pleased to see that WiFi is free throughout the hotel. However we were not so pleased to discover that the original Dorchester Hotel in London - a 5 star hotel with similarly lofty [...]
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Hotel room rates have always been something of a movable feast. “Rack rate” has never been exactly what everybody paid and most hotels have a yield management program that prices to get the best profit from the hotel – balancing occupancy rates and price to make the optimum return. That makes it hard to know what the [...]
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It’s no surprise that growth-hungry Travelodge was pleased to snap up the Mercure Hotel, with its convenient location close to London’s Gatwick airport. But it may come as more of a surprise to hear that the company has decided to totally transform the successful 4 star hotel. In a move to align the hotel with Travelodge’s [...]
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