What's going on with Premier Inn prices?

with the link he gave it was easy to check adjacent times and PI's, all with similar increased prices, can't be some event extending across all of them.
maybe, as suggested, there is a block govt booking (refugees), since system never show how many rooms remain, to see if supply is limited ..
maybe you can attempt a block booking to see
 
I didn't think of refugees but not sure how relevant it is really. Before 2017, I was using a hotel called the Stage which was on the same road as the Nottingham Goose Fair. Then in 2017, it decided to turn itself into an asylum centre, so 2017 onwards I used the Premier Inn and it was a similar price, £40-£50 a night not including breakfast.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
It's worth remembering that hotel rooms are priced dynamically to maximise revenue, the higher the demand, the higher the price.
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Premier Inn seem to have moved away from this dynamic pricing model. Last year, I was looking to book our October hotel, I started looking at the prices in February and finally booked a few days before we went. The price didn't change at all. The same thing has happened a few times with Premier Inns when I've been checking prices, they just don't seem to change.
 
Rocking police vans in Tesco car parks are an economic necessity for the rampant coppers now "getting a room" is so extortionate. Maybe a Go Fund Me is needed at police stations ;)

But seriously, given the government are pleading for hotel owners to absorb the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants they are ncouraging across The Channel, with eye watering sums of money and promises to fix the damage they cause, it'll be hard to find a hotel at all soon!
 
Best thing, is to just not do anything, because everything is too expensive and the vast majority of the money ends up in the hands of the already ridiculously wealthy anyway.

General strike.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
Disclaimers, to make this thread fair:
- I always use the same Premier Inn branch, called Nottingham Arena
- I always book via their web site (links below)
- All prices here are exclusive of breakfast or any other extras

I stayed there every October for the Nottingham Goose Fair and it was always £40-£50 per night for 1 person, although it's always a double or twin room. This was up until 2019.

The pandemic hit so everything was closed in 2020.

In 2021, Nottingham Goose Fair didn't go ahead but Hull Fair did, so I booked a nearby independent hotel there and again it was only £43 per night for 1 person. In 2022, I went back to Hull, same hotel, now £55 a night. That's a slight hike but I could live with that due to energy rates going up and the entertainment industry clawing back money that was lost during the pandemic.

Now I want to go back to Nottingham Arena (Premier Inn), this time on 28th-30th April and 6th-8th October.

For the October dates, they want £136-£159 per night

Nottingham Arena (London Road) Hotels | Premier Inn

Our Premier Inn Nottingham Arena (London Road) hotel is close to some of Nottingham?s top attractions, from the Motorpoint Arena Nottingham to the City of Caves and more.
www.premierinn.com www.premierinn.com

For the April dates, they want £151-£174 per night!

Nottingham Arena (London Road) Hotels | Premier Inn

Our Premier Inn Nottingham Arena (London Road) hotel is close to some of Nottingham?s top attractions, from the Motorpoint Arena Nottingham to the City of Caves and more.
www.premierinn.com www.premierinn.com

Note that the October dates don't overlap with October half term and Easter Day this year is 9th April, so my dates don't clash with school holidays or peak times.

What the hell is going on? £20 extra is fine to cover hardships etcs, but I can't justify paying 3-4 times of what I used to pay.
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Nottingham Arena, I think there may be a clue there if its some digs in the 'burbs or a park off the M4 its unlikely to be as much in demand I imagine.

ci_newman said:
After covid, many hotel staff realised that service work is underpaid and overworked so found jobs in new areas. Hotels are having to pay much higher salaries now to compete with a wider employment pool (also Brexit drove away a lot of the low paid / lower skilled workers).

Don't forget energy costs are almost 10x what they were for business now compared to 2019 too.

Pretty much all of the chain hotels are doing the same thing now.
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Covid and brexit having a positive impact on the labour market people no longer getting exploited with long hours and low pay, who knew eh?
 
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I've noticed post covid they are really wacked up their prices. I understand everything is going up but now I find premier inn isn't much cheaper than a nice hotel so I just pay a bit extra for the nicer one now.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Nottingham Arena, I think there may be a clue there if its some digs in the 'burbs or a park off the M4 its unlikely to be as much in demand I imagine.
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The Nottingham Arena Premier Inn is actually by the train station, but even the other PI on Goldsmith Street (near the uni) is asking for similar prices. No idea where the actual Notts Arena is though because I have never actively looked for it.
 
I've stayed in that Premier Inn, the Arena is about 200m away. It's always been around those prices when I've looked in the last few months as I use it occasionally for work.
 
Surely I wasn't the only one to look up Nottingham Goose fair?
I thought Pawnless had go t a farm or something.

Anyway, we're running into the same problems everywhere, every hotel has been hiked and we pay the extra so we can get our money back if the trains don't run.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Surely I wasn't the only one to look up Nottingham Goose fair?
I thought Pawnless had go t a farm or something.

Anyway, we're running into the same problems everywhere, every hotel has been hiked and we pay the extra so we can get our money back if the trains don't run.
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I grew up around Nottingham so knew exactly what he was talking about!
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Surely I wasn't the only one to look up Nottingham Goose fair?
I thought Pawnless had go t a farm or something.
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It started out as a market for geese but is now a major yearly fairground with a market section along the top section of the fair (but no longer sell geese!)

Hull Fair is the UK's other major fairground, and Goose/Hull sometimes overlap with each other.
 
Not Premier Inn but I've got 3 nights in Battersea booked in a Travelodge Family room with an extra bed ,works out £226

edit for spelling
 
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I booked for Easter at a premier Inn and it was £68 for a family room, just checked and last year same hotel was £69-50, pretty sure pre covid it was about the same (I stayed at a slightly different location that year and it was £56)

So maybe it's location specific
 
Chris Wilson said:
Rocking police vans in Tesco car parks are an economic necessity for the rampant coppers now "getting a room" is so extortionate. Maybe a Go Fund Me is needed at police stations ;)

But seriously, given the government are pleading for hotel owners to absorb the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants they are ncouraging across The Channel, with eye watering sums of money and promises to fix the damage they cause, it'll be hard to find a hotel at all soon!
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It's not a Tesco, but there is a Asda around the corner from the goose fair... it also has a very large car park! :D I used to leave my car in it each year when visiting the fair :)
 
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