Premier Inn London Hotels

If you have read my previous posts you will already know that I am doing my own research into hotels and one area is accessible accommodation.  One hotel chain that I have been researching is Premier Inn.

Premier Inn London County Hall

I have started by looking at 44 London hotels which have 6,570 rooms of which 319 are accessible rooms.  Only 8 hotels the Angel Islington, City (Old Street), County Hall, Dagenham, Gatwick Manor Royal, Greenwich, Richmond and Stratford have the correct number of accessible rooms as laid out in the Building Regulations. The regulations state that their should be one wheelchair accessible room for every twenty hotel rooms or thereof.  These hotels also offered a choice of lowered bath with overhead shower or a wetroom.
There are 6 hotels which do not have the required number of accessible rooms for them to

Premier Inn Hampstead

comply with the regulations and of the rooms that are available they do not offer a choice of bathroom facilities.  They offer either a lowered bath with overhead shower or a wetroom.  These hotels are Beckton, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Hanger Lane, Kensington (Olympia) and Waterloo.
There are 9 hotels that have the correct number of wheelchair accessible rooms.  However, they do not offer a choice of bathroom facilities, they either have a lowered bath with overhead shower or a wetroom.  These hotels are City (Tower Hill), Elstree/Borehamwood, Docklands Excel, Edgware, Gatwick Airport A23, Gatwick Airport South, Southwark Borough Market, Southwark Tate Modern and Wimbledon South.
I have also looked at 11 new builds which have opened between December 2014 and February 2016.  By all rights these hotels should comply fully and give choice of bathroom facilities.  The new builds are Aldgate, Bexleyheath, Kingston upon Thames, Lewisham, Romford, St Pancras, Uxbridge, Holborn, Edmonton, Brentford and Sidcup.
There are 10 hotels that I have been unable to research fully as information relating to them is pretty vague and they are Blackfriars, Euston, Gatwick Airport East, Harrow, Kew, Kings Cross, Leicester Square, Putney Bridge, Tower Bridge and Victoria.
I have to say that with only a few hotels being fully compliant and others only being partial I was suprised that they achieved 4.85% of their rooms being accessible.  It is a shame that some hotels only offer one type of bathroom facility and not a choice, for someone like myself having only one type of bathroom facility often means the decision is made for me.  This means that I am often further away from my destination than I origionally planned or I may have chosen to go with another hotel chain that can offer a hotel with the right facilities near to my destination.  It hard to be a loyal customer when these types of obstacles are put in your way.

Source: Premier Inn Database, Booking.com