Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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7 January 2010
19:5736749#1
Just come across a reference - for a Travelodge in Dover (DEAL DONE @ 100 BEDS). Wonder where ? DTIZ ?
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7 January 2010
20:0336751#2
Interesting Paul. Is it not?
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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7 January 2010
20:1736753#3
I asked Travel Inn - sorry, Premier Inn, if they were having another one there and they said no, so am not surprised it's a Travel Lodge (if indeed it is going there); it was always going to be a budget hotel in DTIZ.
Roger
7 January 2010
21:0936759#4
Arent' they usually close to the restaurant Toby Carvery - I have been told there is one of these opening up at whitfield Old Park. Will it be nearby there?
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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7 January 2010
21:3936761#5
Whitfield planning application is from Marstons Pub Company, but it could be associated with the area.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 January 2010
13:5836784#6
Talking about Travelodges we use them when we go round seeing the family,and we like them and if you book online now for later on you can get them just for £19 per room per night and even some of them are going now for £9 per room,and that for two of us great if i was not going into Hos.we would be away if it had not been for the weather.All the rooms have T.V. and are heated you can not stay at home for £9 anight,so get your selfs off for the weekends.
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8 January 2010
18:1336806#7
That is certainly good news for the travelling public Vic and Travel Lodge too as they make up the money on food and drink.
However it is very bad news for guest houses/small (private) hotels, as they just cannot compete with those prices and if those cheapies go on for long, many guest houses etc. will close - as has happened already in Dover - mainly the Folkestone Road, which used to be the road with more guest houses than any other in Dover.
Roger
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8 January 2010
19:1536818#8
It was the flats that done that Roger not Traval lodge,again it was down to your D,D,C. and you know I am right on that one.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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8 January 2010
19:2136820#9
yep Vic
shortsighted planning dept but we been here before
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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8 January 2010
19:5336827#10
there was also the issue of some of them taking in asylum seekers a few years back as a way of making easy money.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 January 2010
19:5736829#11
You are both right as you know I with other Cllrs at that time did try to stop them but as you said been here before.
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8 January 2010
22:3536873#12
Don't think you can blame the council and planning for this when it is mostly down to economics and roads....
Up until recent years people could drive for a whole day and get to Dover and want to stay the night before the ferry, but now you can get from almost the far reaches of England and be in France within the day. The days of guest houses were numbered and what else could they do with the properties ??
I regularly use Travelodges, the last few years we have gone away somewhere in the country and stayed, even on Xmas day for £9 a night. You would not get anywhere near that price for a B&B or hotel
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8 January 2010
22:5536879#13
well done Paul I agree about the t/lodges they are good. When I was working away from home we always stoped at hotels and B/B most of them were well run to and always near to the work in some case,s The T/lodges are out of town +with B&B some of them are like being at home I was in one for some weeks in wales and she was like a mum to me,she would worry about me if i was late in from work,always up about 0500hrs to see me off. And when I was working over seas I was staying with the same family over a year and they would treat me like one of them to and I got run over by a car and was in hospital some time each night they would come and see me.You do not get that a T/lodges but both are good.
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8 January 2010
23:0536881#14
i can never remember whether it is travellodge or premier inn that lenny henry spends most of his life in to cut down on heating bills.
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9 January 2010
09:3436908#15
Premier Inns Howard.
There was only one guest house in Folkestone Road that took in Asylum-seekers back in the late 90's and that was the Elmo, next to the old Dover Hotel (which took them in later).
The Mildmay Hotel took them in and made a good bit of monery but did re-invest it in the Hotel afterwards and made it one of, if not the best Hotel, in Dover.
The guest houses in Dover suffered particularly badly because there was a Travel Inn built in Folkestone Road, then the Duke of York at the top of Jubilee Way and of course the Marine Court on the Seafront. There's also a Premier Inn at Cheriton of course;.
These are Hotels that provide good quality accommodation and in most cases at affordable prices, they also of course have a restaurant and bar, so people will drive to them and if they are quite tired, they can eat and drink and crawl upstairs afterwards without having to drive any more - a big advantage.
Roger