Premier Inn Opens Its Doors in Hastings Town Centre

Premier Inn Hastings Town Centre — Photo by Whitbread PLC

Premier Inn has celebrated its latest hotel opening on the south coast of England in Hastings Town Centre.

The 84-bedroom hotel on Cornwallis Street brings the brand's very latest bedrooms and welcoming restaurant space to the heart of the historic seaside town.

Whitbread plc, which owns Premier Inn, has transformed an under-utilised car park into the new 3,000 sq m hotel, constructing the ground plus four-storey building in fifteen months.

The Premier Inn Hastings Town Centre hotel brings together Premier Inn's Standard rooms and enhanced 'Premier Plus' bedrooms along with the brand's stunning new ground-floor restaurant space, The Social.

It grows Premier Inn's network in Hastings to two hotels, and a team of 25 team members have been recruited to give guests the famous Premier Inn welcome in this new location in Hastings Town Centre.

Labour (Co-op) MP for Hastings and Rye, Helena Dollimore MP, joined the team to officially open the new Hastings Town Centre hotel, cutting the ribbon with the new hotel team alongside several of Whitbread's external stakeholders.

Premier Inn, which operates around 850 hotels in the UK and Ireland, is especially active on the south coast of England as it invests to strengthen its network in locations with robust local economies and strong seasonal leisure demand.

Alongside the new Hastings Town Centre hotel, the company is set to open a new Premier Inn on Bognor Regis Seafront in spring next year. It also started clearing the site of a new 130-bedroom Premier Inn in Littlehampton Town Centre and is searching for a suitable location for the brand in Rye.

Before opening the doors, the new team volunteered at St Michael's Hospice Donation Centre, helping to sort through donations, and carried out a three-hour beach clean collecting 20 bags of litter from the breach.

In addition, Whitbread shared a £9,000 'Force for Good' fund with three local charities selected by the hotel team. These included supporting 'Expanding limited horizons', 'Counselling Plus Community' and the 'Hastings Community Info Hub', with representatives of those local organisations joining.

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