I am seriously impressed by Premier Inn

[PaulSB]

Slept in too many in years gone by I never want to see another. Give me a good B&B every time.

 

[DaveReading]

It costs the hotel the same to provide the room to one person as it does to two. Same cleaning costs, same costs to wash sheets, etc. It costs the same to check one person in that it does to check in two. It costs the same to heat and light the space.

And who knows, he/she might decide to have two breakfasts.

 

[DaveReading]

[QUOTE 4491912, member: 259"]You get proper porridge and the sausages are very good. No tomato juice though![/QUOTE]

And no honey for your croissant. Though the staff are always happy to warm up the latter if asked.

 

[Dirtyhanz]

You cannot fault them if you book at the right time 35 pounds for a room a great breakfast at the right price I would stay in one every time some hotels are so over priced

 

[mjr]

[QUOTE 4491912, member: 259"]Well good luck to them. You get proper porridge and the sausages are very good. No tomato juice though![/QUOTE]
Porridge with sausages in?

 

[bigjim]

It costs the hotel the same to provide the room to one person as it does to two. Same cleaning costs, same costs to wash sheets, etc. It costs the same to check one person in that it does to check in two. It costs the same to heat and light the space.

Fair point, though in a twin only one bed used, check in online cost can't be much. Thing is do you as a business chance an unused room or take say, of a third off for singles to keep full occupancy? Much of the capital and revenue costs are incurred whether the room is occupied or not. Business model should be looked at as there are more single travellors than ever.

 

[Dan B]

Relaxing in a Premier Inn right now. The free wifi seems to have it's speed limited to under 0.5 Mb/s. You have to pay extra for faster speeds.

That matches my recent experience, and I would add that the faster speeds are also dog-slow by any reasonable standard. Didn't try to get the cycles into the room, but one of them was a Christiania cargo trike and there wouldn't have been space for it even if we could have got it into the lift.

Upside: we met Chris Jarvis at breakfast. (You're not expected to recognise that name unless you have kids under 5, btw)

 

[smutchin]

in a twin only one bed used

Premier Inn don't do twin rooms - all their rooms have double/kingsize beds. If you want separate beds, the second person has to sleep on the sofa. If you're a singleton, you get a whole double bed to yourself. I often use Premier Inn as a single traveller - their rates are usually cheaper than for genuine single rooms in other hotels.

Their business model seems to work fine for them.

 

[bigjim]

Their business model seems to work fine for them.

Would not know, not privy to their accounts. But it appears their business model does not work well for a lot of single travellors and I suppose it depends what you want to, or can pay. When touring solo across the channel I often pay €30ish for a room in chain or small hotels.

 

[smutchin]

Would not know, not privy to their accounts.

They're part of Whitbread, which is a plc. Took me about a minute to find the info online just now.

In the 2014/15 financial year they made £1.6bn profit, a year on year increase of 11%.

Like I said, their business model seems to work fine for them.

 

[smutchin]

In the 2014/15 financial year they made £1.6bn profit, a year on year increase of 11%.

Hang on... that doesn't sound right. Just double checked - that's total revenue. Profit is actually £401m.

And they've published their 2015/16 results too - revenue of £1.8bn, profit of £440m.

 

[jay clock]

What has any of this got to do with bikes in rooms? All a bit off topic

 

[bigjim]

What has any of this got to do with bikes in rooms? All a bit off topic

Well it went off topic about the cost of a single travellor. I don't know why he keeps trying to prove a point about how successful they are, which is not the point I was tryng to make about business models. But hey ho. I shall move on.
Actually it should be of interest to you jay the amount of travel you do. I'm still running my Saracen Skyline by the way.

 

[smutchin]

I don't know why he keeps trying to prove a point about how successful they are, which is not the point I was tryng to make about business models.

Merely providing some easy-to-find figures to help put the discussion on a factual footing.

 

[bigjim]

Merely providing some easy-to-find figures to help put the discussion on a factual footing.

Like I said, not what I meant. But back to cycling.