Newcastle Cobalt Business Park gets a new Travelodge hotel
Newcastle Cobalt Business Park Travelodge is the first budget hotel to open at Europe’s largest business park and will offer rooms from £29
Travelodge, one of the UK’s biggest hotel brands is delighted to announce it has officially opened the first budget hotel at Europe’s biggest business park, Newcastle Cobalt Business Park – which is home to 150 companies. This opening boosts the company’s portfolio to over 590 hotels in the UK, Ireland and Spain including seven hotels in Newcastle and ten in Tyne and Wear.
Newcastle Cobalt Business Park Travelodge features 80-rooms, an on-site restaurant called the Bar Café which offers a breakfast, dinner and bar service. The hotel also offers an on-site car park. This opening has created 20 new jobs within the local community.
The hotel development is part of a regeneration programme which has involved converting a redundant office block into a new hotel with an extension.
Newcastle Cobalt Business Park Travelodge is one of 17 hotels, Travelodge has opened in 2021. Collectively this expansion programme of 17 hotels represents an approximate investment of £175 million for third party investors and a creation of 360 new jobs.
Newcastle Cobalt Business Park Travelodge has been styled in the company’s contemporary brand design, which has been created by business and leisure customers. It offers family, double and accessible rooms starting from £29. Rooms can be booked at www.travelodge.co.uk
All rooms feature the bespoke luxurious king-size Travelodge Dreamer bed which is produced by Sleepeezee who hold a Royal Warrant from HRH The Prince of Wales. The Travelodge Dreamer bed sits within a mood lighting surround and has spacious bedside shelves featuring his & hers charging ports. In addition all family rooms include two individual beds for children.
The rooms also feature a modern en-suite bathroom, power shower, comfort
cooling, to enable you to personalise the temperature of your room, a 32 inch
Freeview TV, complementary in-room tea & coffee making facilities and access to Wifi.
The Bar Café offers a great value breakfast & dinner menu and a bar service that offers a range of aperitifs such as a gin menu, a broad range of red & white wines,proseccoand champagne.
Travelodge offers an unlimited breakfast at just £8.75, and for each paying adult two children eat for free. Additionally Travelodge has great dinner menu meal deals too – adults can eat a delicious main course plus a side dish or dessert for just £12.25 and Travelodge’s kids menu offers 3 courses and a drink for only £6.25. For more information please visit https://www.travelodge.co.uk/about/our-restaurants/
Newcastle Cobalt Travelodge is being managed by Colin Evans, who has worked for the company for over three years. Colin was previously Hotel Manager at Newcastle Airport and Gateshead Travelodge hotels.
Colin Evans, Hotel Manager, Newcastle Cobalt Business Park Travelodge said: “Weare delighted to open our first hotel in Cobalt Business Park in time for Christmas. There has been a desperate need for good quality and low cost accommodation within the area for some time and this new Travelodge is ideally located for business and leisure travellers. With today’s opening we now operate over 590 hotels across the UK, Ireland and Spain which includes seven Travelodge hotels in Newcastle.”
“I have built a great team and our hotel has got off to a flying start. As Travelodge is the nation’s spare room provider we have seen an increase this year in bookings across our Newcastle hotels from locals and from travellers from all corners of the UK who are visiting family and friends in Newcastle this festive season. Nowadays not many households have a spare room and Britons have outgrown sleeping on the sofa or on the floor, comfort is key and our Travelodge Dreamer beds don’t disappoint on getting a good night’s sleep. This is great news for the local economy as research shows; annually Travelodge customers will spend double their room rate with local businesses during their stay, which can equate to a multi-million boost for the local economy.”
“Once we get over the Christmas rush, I am also looking forward to developing my team and to help them to climb the career ladder at Travelodge. The majority of my team are parents and at Travelodge we are dedicated to supporting working parents, by offering flexible working hours around the school run; so that they can work, climb the career ladder and raise their family.”
Guy Marsden, Director Highbridge Properties Plc, Developers of Cobalt Business Park: “We are delighted that Travelodge has joined the already strong range of amenities on Cobalt Park, and clearly proves the location continues to be a major success story for North Tyneside and the region as a whole. We look forward to welcoming Travelodge into the Cobalt Business Community”.