Cork City Centre Premier Inn
Premier Inn achieves practical completion in Cork
Whitbread, the UK's largest hospitality group and owner of Premier Inn, has confirmed its most westerly hotel in Europe achieved Practical Completion last month (Friday 24th November) paving the way for opening in the early new year.
Premier Inn Cork City Centre Hotel
Photo by Whitbread PLC
The new 187-bedroom Premier Inn at Morrisons Quay in Cork, which is developed by Greenleaf, Warren Private and built by Elliott Group, is a significant opening for Whitbread in Ireland as it the first Premier Inn to be developed outside of Dublin.
Premier Inn Cork is part of a mixed-use development on the site of the former Moore's hotel on the banks of the River Lee. Construction of the new hotel began in August 2021, with the new 187-bedroom Premier Inn built alongside three own-door office buildings (11, 12 and 13 Morrisons Quay) which are due to complete in December.
Recruitment for the new team to run the Cork Premier Inn is currently underway with close to 50 permanent positions available at the new hotel.
Morrisons Quay is the third location where Whitbread has collaborated with Greenleaf and Warren Private to secure new locations for Premier Inn in Ireland.
The team led the development of the first Premier Inn to open in Dublin City Centre in 2021 as well as the acquisition of a consented development site for a 100-bedroom hotel at Ushers Quay in Dublin 8 earlier this year.
The exact opening date for Premier Inn Cork together with the opening room rate will be confirmed in January 2024.
It marks the first step by the business to establishing a network of Premier Inns across Ireland - a market where Whitbread believes there is potential for 3,500 Premier Inn bedrooms across the country in time.