![]() However, my wife orders just a boiled egg. It’s a decent enough cooked breakfast - two each of sausages, eggs, hash browns and bacon plus a grilled tomato. Also, unlike the other chains, there’s someone to take your order and bring it to your table rather than helping yourself to a buffet of congealing fried food. If an adult coughs up for a full English breakfast the kids eat free, which mitigates the cost a bit. While the room is clean and newly decorated, the window, which overlooks the car park, can't be opened more than a couple of inchesīreakfast is served next door in the Beefeater restaurant - part of the same group that owns Premier Inn. It’s not exactly been the most restful night of my life but the children sleep well, not stirring until 7.30am, so I won’t be demanding my money back. There’s no aircon, rather an electric fan which chugs noisily away until the morning. Given that our visit coincides with the hottest day of the year, I awake in the middle of the night, sweltering. While the room is clean and newly decorated, the window, which overlooks the car park, can’t be opened more than a couple of inches. As for the soap, it’s in a pump dispenser screwed to the shower wall. ![]() No doubt it’s all supposed to inspire a reassuring sense of familiarity, but the reality is that, while the bed is comfortable enough, the bedding is hollowfibre, not feathers, and far from special. We’re promised Twinings tea to drink, Imperial Leather soap to wash with, and Yeo Valley yoghurt to eat. We will, in fact, be ‘floating on a cloud’ created by the 1,000 pocket springs contained within our king size Hypnos mattress, while the pillows and duvets are courtesy of a company by the name of Fogarty.Īnd the brand names don’t stop there. And, as Premier Inn can’t stop telling you, these are no ordinary beds. Each features a double bed next to a pull-out bed. Still, at first glance, the rooms seem nice. The Premier Inn at Whistable in Kent, where the cost of a family room for four starts at £45 Indeed, add in two adult breakfasts at £8.75 each - the children eat free - and we’re not far shy of £200 for the night, some way from the company’s current ‘50,000 summer rooms available for just £29, £39 and £49’ promotion. ![]() Like the other two chains, Premier Inn’s policy of only allowing four people in a room unless the fifth is a baby in a cot has immediately doubled the cost which, considering we’re staying on a Friday so it’s already £89 per room, makes a real difference. But the first annoyance is that, because there are five of us, we have to have two interconnected rooms rather than one. Fail to sleep like a baby and you can request a refund. It’s a push built not just on low prices but also on the guarantee of a good night’s rest. Now boasting more than 650 hotels across the country, Lenny has been an integral part of Premier Inn’s efforts to establish itself as not only the biggest budget chain in Britain but also the most popular. So Dudley’s most famous son can console himself with the knowledge that the chain’s advertising campaign is working, even if his comedy career seems to have been forgotten. But when we walk in to our room, my four-year-old daughter Martha catches sight of a photo of the comedian on some promotional material and observes: ‘Look, there’s the man who lives in a bed.’ ![]() We paid £89 (Friday night).ĪDDITIONAL COSTS: £8.75 per adult breakfast, (kids eat free) broadband free for 30 minutes then £3 for 24 hours.Īs accolades go, it is probably not one Lenny Henry will want to remember. Tom Rawstrone, with his wife Charlotte and their daughters Bea (top) and Martha, who tried out the UK's three cheapest hotel chainsĬOST FOR FAMILY ROOM FOR FOUR: From £45.
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