Travelodge sets sights on cruise port locations
Travelodge has opened its first hotel in Dover and has outlined plans for hotels at the UK’s top 10 busiest cruise ports.
The purpose-built, 108-room Travelodge Dover overlooks Dover Castle and is minutes away from Dover’s cruise terminal.
It has a Bar Cafe and on-site car-parking and represents a £9 million investment for the landlord Legal & General.
In response to the growing cruise boom, Travelodge said it is looking for a further 10 new hotel sites close to the UK’s busiest cruise ports – Edinburgh, Glasgow, Harwich, Hull, Liverpool, Newcastle, Poole, Portsmouth, Southampton and Tilbury.
Tony O’Brien, Travelodge property director, said: "The cruise boom is still underway and predicted to grow from strength to strength; therefore we are getting on board now and looking for ten new hotel sites at UK’s growing Ports.
"This expansion represents an investment of £60 million for third party investors and will create around 300 new jobs."
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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