Budget-hotel bruiser Travelodge is parking its suitcase smack opposite London Liverpool Street, the UK’s busiest rail hub, and frankly, it’s about time someone made use of all those unloved offices.
In a move that screams “urban regeneration but make it affordable,” Travelodge has secured a long lease on two vacant office blocks at 6 Broad Street Place and 15-17 Eldon Street. They’re a stone’s throw (or a luggage wheel’s roll) from Liverpool Street station, right in the heart of the City.
Pending the usual planning wrangling, the upper floors will be transformed into a shiny new hotel featuring the chain’s latest 85 Bar Café concept because what’s a sleepover without budget bacon butties and bottomless coffee? The ground floor at Broad Street Place, meanwhile, is heading back to retail duty.
This isn’t just a one-off pit stop, either. Travelodge has been clocking up some serious development miles, with recent openings in Chiswick and Oval and eleven more snapped up across cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and more.
Here’s what Travelodge’s CEO, Jo Boydell, had to say as she zipped up the latest expansion plan:
“Office-to-hotel conversion is a sustainable way of developing, allowing us to meet the increasing demand for budget hotels while reducing the carbon impact that new development brings.”
Translation: Why build from scratch when you can give a tired old office a Travelodge facelift and still save the planet?
Boydell also confirmed that the group now runs 80+ hotels in London, with five more in the works. So yes, they’re coming for your postcode.
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