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Travelodge officially opens its sixth Spanish hotel in Madrid
Travelodge, a leading budget hotel chain which operates nearly 600 hotels across the UK, Ireland and Spain, has officially opened its sixth hotel in Spain – in Coslada, Madrid. To mark this special occasion, the group hosted a ceremonial event which was attended by the landlord, investors, property agents and key British and Spanish stakeholders. […]
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Construction starts on a new 113-room Chiswick (West London) Travelodge hotel
Work begins on London Chiswick Travelodge.
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Travelodge is the UK’s first hotel brand to sublet to Popeyes at its Northampton Travelodge hotel site
Travelodge agrees sublet deal with Popeyes UK
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On site with Travelodge: Q4 hotel development update
Colchester Northern Gateway TravelodgeConstruction of our first hotel in Colchester at Northern Gateway is progressing well. The 90-room Travelodge forms part of a major mixed-use development being developed by Turnstone Estates and funded via a lease-wrapper deal with Colchester City Council. The hotel is part of a 200,000 sq. ft. leisure park, which includes a […]
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Travelodge acquires new site and opens second hotel in Wellingborough
Travelodge opens new hotel in Wellingborough.
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Travelodge upgrades nearly 30 more hotels to its budget-luxe design in as part of 2023 refit programme
Travelodge, the pioneers of the UK budget hotel sector, are delighted to announce that this year they are upgrading a further 55 hotels across their estate to the group’s new Budget-Luxe design. Nearly 30 of these hotels in key staycation destinations have been completed. This includes the group’s two biggest hotels, the 463-room, Covent Garden […]
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Travelodge opens its fourth hotel in Ipswich and announces it is looking to double its hotel presence in Suffolk
Travelodge, the UK’s first branded budget hotel chain, has opened its fourth hotel in Ipswich. next to Ipswich Town FC. This hotel is the town’s and the county’s first Travelodge budget-luxe hotel – which is the group’s new premium look and feel hotel design. Ipswich Central Travelodge was officially opened by Steve Bennett, Travelodge […]
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Travelodge launches new multi million pound integrated advertising campaign to showcase its role in key occasions in life
Travelodge launches new multi-million pound ad campaign.
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Travelodge reports record results for 2022 and encouraging early 2023 trading
Travelodge delivered an excellent trading performance in 2022, with record profits and revenue growth.
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Travelodge re-submits its planning application for new Shrewsbury hotel
Travelodge has announced it has resubmitted plans for a new 83-room hotel in Shrewsbury town centre.
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Travelodge targets 220 Local Authorities to help unlock regeneration opportunities to help grow Britain’s cities and towns
Travelodge, one of the UK’s largest hotel brands, which operates nearly 600 hotels, is writing to 220 Local Authorities across Britain proposing a joint development partnership that can act as a catalyst to stimulate regeneration and facilitate further growth. This letter outlines the pivotal role that Travelodge has been playing for the last 10 years […]
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Travelodge is continuing its budget-luxe hotel upgrade programme in 2023
In 2022, Travelodge completed phase one of the budget-luxe hotel upgrade programme, which resulted in 65 Travelodge hotels across the UK being upgraded to the new, premium, budget-luxe design. This year, the upgrade programme continues with 48 hotels being upgraded to the budget-luxe design. This represents a multi-million pound investment for the group. This hotel […]
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Travelodge is coming to the Oval cricket ground
To kick-start the development of the new, 95-room Travelodge hotel at The Kia Oval Cricket Ground, a groundbreaking ceremony was held where Steve Bennett, Travelodge Chief Property and Development Officer, and Steve Elworthy, CEO Surrey County Cricket Club, dug the ground to commence the new hotel development. Interestingly, the site where the London Oval Cricket Ground […]
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Travelodge completes a lease regear with its biggest landlord, LXI REIT
Travelodge has completed a mutually-beneficial lease regear with its largest landlord, LXI REIT for the majority of the properties in the 122 Travelodge hotel portfolio they acquired as part of Secure Income REIT merger in 2022.
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Travelodge opens its 79th London hotel in Wimbledon
Travelodge, one of the UK’s largest hotel brands, announces it has officially opened its third new-build budget luxe hotel in the heart of Wimbledon. With this opening, the group now operates 596 hotels across the UK, Ireland and Spain. Wimbledon Travelodge is the group’s 79th hotel in the Capital, positioning Travelodge as one of London’s […]
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Travelodge appoints new UK Contracts Project Manager
Andrew Griffiths has been appointed as new UK Contracts Project Manager at Travelodge.
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Travelodge exchanges contracts with Invesco Real Estate for its seventh hotel in Bristol
Travelodge announces that work has started on site for a new, 85-room hotel in Bristol.
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Travelodge delivers record financial results and continued out-performance
Travelodge well positioned in uncertain macroeconomic environment.
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Travelodge opens its first budget luxe hotel in Hexham and announces its North East hotel expansion programme
Born and raised in Newcastle, Claire Good, Travelodge Chief Operating Officer returned home and was joined by her parents David and Sylvia Jones who live in Chapel Park and Hexham’s Mayor, Derek Kennedy to officially open Travelodge’s first new-build budget luxe hotel in the north of England – in Hexham. Hexham Travelodge is the second […]
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The events industry is bouncing back and the proof is in the bookings!
The events sector is worth £42.3 billion to the UK economy in terms of direct spend by event delegates, attendees and organisers and after two years of no events the industry is bouncing back and the proof is in our bookings data.
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60 Travelodge hotels undergoing Budget-Luxe transformation this year
We recently announced that we are evolving our core brand product to a new budget-luxe premium look and feel design. This is the brand’s most radical transformation to date and includes a new timeless, classic style reception, a next generation, multi-dimensional room and a contemporary restaurant & bar, called The Bar Café. This year, 60 Travelodge hotels across […]
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Travelodge reveals its current hotel development schedule – which represents an investment of £330 million by third party investors
2022 marks an important milestone in the evolution of Travelodge, as we launch our new premium look and feel budget-luxe Travelodge design hotels and expand our estate with new hotels and in-house restaurants. We are seeking to continue this expansion with plans for more than 75 new Travelodge hotels throughout the UK over the next […]
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Lewisham Travelodge is the first of the group’s quadruple London hotel openings for 2022
We recently officially opened our 595th hotel which is also our 78th London Travelodge – in Lewisham High Street. This opening is the first of four hotels we plan to open in London this year. The other three hotels include the company’s first new-build premium look and feel budget-luxe hotels* in Docklands and Wimbledon and […]
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Travelodge announces 2021 financial results
We recently announced our 2021 financial results, which certainly proved to be a year of two halves. While the country suffered as a whole from the impact of the pandemic the first half of the year, we recovered strongly in H2, with our total underlying revenue in Q4 up 1.8% to £185.1m – trending ahead […]
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Travelodge reveals Q1 trading performance
Travelodge has released its Q1 2022 Trading Update for the period ending 31st March 2022, which showed continued outperformance versus the Midscale and Economy sectors, which themselves continued to outperform the rest of the UK hotel industry. Travelodge’s total underlying revenue was 7% ahead of the equivalent period in 2019, with RevPAR 4.3% ahead of 2019 and RevPAR Growth […]
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Travelodge is expanding its in-house maintenance team and is looking to fill 40 roles
Travelodge is expanding its dedicated 145 strong nationwide in-house maintenance team with a further 40 new positions.
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Travelodge appoints ‘Disability Positive’ to advise on policy affecting customers living with a disability or long-term health conditions
Travelodge has appointed Disability Positive to advise on policy and training programmes – to support customers living with disability and long term health conditions and their families.
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It’s a UK First –Travelodge creates an army of RoboVac Buddies to support its nationwide housekeeping
We are very excited to kick start 2022 by revolutionising the hospitality sector and supporting our housekeeping teams with the roll-out of the UK’s first hotel RoboVac Buddy recruitment programme.
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Travelodge comes to Braintree
Travelodge has officially opened its first hotel in Braintree and its 14th property in Essex.
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Aviva and IM Properties cash in on their Travelodge assets
Recently, two third party investors, IM Properties and Aviva, have sold two Travelodge lease investments, demonstrating the strength of the Travelodge business and the market confidence in the continued growth potential of the UK budget hotel sector.
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Case Studies from Travelodge

CASE STUDY: Edge-of-town, Standalone Travelodge Forming Part of Mixed-Use Scheme
Out of town, bespoke, mixed use development on Bristol Ring Road

CASE STUDY: Partnering with Councils to deliver a new Travelodge hotel
Travelodge has partnered with many Councils as part of High Streets regeneration schemes

CASE STUDY: Conversion of an Office Building
London Crystal palace hotel opened in 2012 and is an example of a office conversion with 86 rooms in the upper floors

London Manor House – Mixed-Use Development
Mixed-use development including a Co-op, a Coffee Shop and a Hostel

CASE STUDY: Conversion from another hotel brand to a new Travelodge
Travelodge Liverpool John Lennon Airport is just one example of a going concern conversion

London Elephant and Castle – Mixed-use tower with residential
Brand new, 22-storey, architect-designed development called The Ceramic Building

St Albans – Redevelopment of Redundant High Street Retail
130-room Travelodge Plus hotel, with Bar Cafe and Super Rooms in St Albans city centre

CASE STUDY: Forward Funded Scheme, with Travelodge acting as Developer
Travelodge Plus-specification hotel self-developed by Travelodge, funded by major UK Pension Fund
Latest News from Travelodge

Travelodge officially opens its sixth Spanish hotel in Madrid
Travelodge, a leading budget hotel chain which operates nearly 600 hotels across the UK, Ireland and Spain, has officially opened its sixth hotel in Spain – in Coslada, Madrid. To mark this special occasion, the group hosted a ceremonial event which was attended by the landlord, investors, property agents and key British and Spanish stakeholders. […]

Construction starts on a new 113-room Chiswick (West London) Travelodge hotel
Work begins on London Chiswick Travelodge.

Travelodge is the UK’s first hotel brand to sublet to Popeyes at its Northampton Travelodge hotel site
Travelodge agrees sublet deal with Popeyes UK

On site with Travelodge: Q4 hotel development update
Colchester Northern Gateway TravelodgeConstruction of our first hotel in Colchester at Northern Gateway is progressing well. The 90-room Travelodge forms part of a major mixed-use development being developed by Turnstone Estates and funded via a lease-wrapper deal with Colchester City Council. The hotel is part of a 200,000 sq. ft. leisure park, which includes a […]

Travelodge upgrades nearly 30 more hotels to its budget-luxe design in as part of 2023 refit programme
Travelodge, the pioneers of the UK budget hotel sector, are delighted to announce that this year they are upgrading a further 55 hotels across their estate to the group’s new Budget-Luxe design. Nearly 30 of these hotels in key staycation destinations have been completed. This includes the group’s two biggest hotels, the 463-room, Covent Garden […]

Travelodge opens its fourth hotel in Ipswich and announces it is looking to double its hotel presence in Suffolk
Travelodge, the UK’s first branded budget hotel chain, has opened its fourth hotel in Ipswich. next to Ipswich Town FC. This hotel is the town’s and the county’s first Travelodge budget-luxe hotel – which is the group’s new premium look and feel hotel design. Ipswich Central Travelodge was officially opened by Steve Bennett, Travelodge […]

Travelodge launches new multi million pound integrated advertising campaign to showcase its role in key occasions in life
Travelodge launches new multi-million pound ad campaign.

Record first half performance with Travelodge well-positioned for long-term growth
Travelodge reports record half year results.

Travelodge acquires new site and opens second hotel in Wellingborough
Travelodge opens new hotel in Wellingborough.

The official opening of Dublin City Centre Travelodge PLUS
We officially celebrated the opening of our latest hotel in Ireland in Dublin City Centre in May.

Upgrade of Madrid Coslada Travelodge Commences
We are delighted to announce that work has started at our Madrid Coslada hotel that was the former NH Villa De Coslada hotel.

Travelodge opens two new hotels
Travelodge kick starts it’s 2023 new openings programme with the opening of London Peckham Travelodge and Wellingborough Travelodge.

Travelodge reveals 2023 plans for its sustainability programme ‘Better Future’
We have always placed a strong emphasis on safety and security, the environment, our social responsibilities and we recognise that there is more we can do as a responsible business, therefore in 2022, we launched our first sustainability report, titled ‘Better Future’.

Travelodge launches the first Levelling Up Impact report within the UK hospitality sector
In a UK first for the hospitality sector, we are the first company to launch a Levelling Up Report in partnership with This is Purpose.

Travelodge appoints new Chief Financial Officer and member of Operating Board
We are delighted to welcome Aidan Connolly, as our Group Chief Finance Officer.

Travelodge reports record results for 2022 and encouraging early 2023 trading
Travelodge delivered an excellent trading performance in 2022, with record profits and revenue growth.

Travelodge re-submits its planning application for new Shrewsbury hotel
Travelodge has announced it has resubmitted plans for a new 83-room hotel in Shrewsbury town centre.

London Kingston-upon-Thames Travelodge is upgraded to the new budget-luxe premium look & feel design
Travelodge, the pioneers of the UK budget hotel sector are delighted to announce that London Kingston-upon-Thames is one of the group’s hotels to be upgraded to the brand’s new budget-luxe design, with completion this week. In April this year, Travelodge, announced that it was evolving its core brand product to a new budget-luxe premium look […]

Travelodge targets 220 Local Authorities to help unlock regeneration opportunities to help grow Britain’s cities and towns
Travelodge, one of the UK’s largest hotel brands, which operates nearly 600 hotels, is writing to 220 Local Authorities across Britain proposing a joint development partnership that can act as a catalyst to stimulate regeneration and facilitate further growth. This letter outlines the pivotal role that Travelodge has been playing for the last 10 years […]

Travelodge completes a lease regear with its biggest landlord, LXI REIT
Travelodge has completed a mutually-beneficial lease regear with its largest landlord, LXI REIT for the majority of the properties in the 122 Travelodge hotel portfolio they acquired as part of Secure Income REIT merger in 2022.