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Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Manchester Premier Inn Accessible Room Information

I have been researching and compiling a list of accessible rooms and facilities that are available at Premier Inn hotels in Manchester.  I have looked at 28 hotels that are in Manchester and the surrounding area.
Nine hotels which are City Centre (Deansgate Locks), Handforth, Cheadle, Wilmslow, Didsbury, Trafford Centre North, Salford Quays, Manchester Airport and City Centre Portland Street have a total of 939 rooms and of those 47 are AB rooms (disabled).  If totaled together they comply with the Building Regulations of 5% which is 46.95%.  However, 8 of these rooms are lowered bath with overhead shower and only 1 offers a wetroom.  None of the above hotels offer a choice of bathroom facilities and the Building Regulations state that where possible hotels should offer a choice of facilities. 
Eight hotels which are Bury, Altrincham, Prestwich, Denton, Heaton Park, Hyde, Manchester Central and Manchester Airport (Heald Green) have a total of 633 rooms and none give numbers of AB rooms.  The Premier Inn spreadsheet shows that 6 of these hotels do not offer wetrooms and 1 hotel (Bury) has 6 wetrooms, while Altrincham has no information regarding AB rooms or facilities. 
Five hotels which are Trafford Centre South, Swinton, Salford Central, Oldham Broadway, Manchester North have no room numbers or AB room information.  Six hotels which are Manchester Old Trafford, Sale, City Centre (Arena/Printworks), Manchester North, City Centre (Picadilly) only gives the numbers of AB rooms which total 46. Of the hotels 3 offer lowered bath with overhead shower a total of 15 bathrooms while 2 offer wetrooms a total of 21 and 1 hotel offers an equal number of bathrooms and wetrooms (5 each). 
Due to the lack of available information on these 28 hotels whether from their spreadsheet, websites or third parties I was only able to get total rooms for 17 hotels and AB room totals for 15 hotels.  Twenty percent of hotels have absolutely no imformation.  The information superhighway is suppose to be a way in which we share information electronically and I would have thought that someone like Premier Inn would have taken adavantage of this by giving their customers the best information via their website but in my opinion they fall far short of this.  As I have previously written all their websites give the same generic information.  I had to visit other sites to find out how many rooms each hotel had and had to take the AB room information from their spreadsheet which often gives partial information and maybe incorrect.
The spreadsheet that I was forwarded lists 618 hotels and the list does not include their newest hotels of which I know there are at least 51 which were opened between December 2014 and present day.  These 51 hotels are all in the UK and should comly fully with the Building Regulations of one in twenty rooms should be accessible and each hotel should offer a choice of bathroom facilities.  I know that some hotels are of listed or historic interest and therefore maynot comply but a large number of their hotels are built to order and there is no reason why they should not comply.  I have contacted Premier Inn regarding their new hotels and await to hear from them.  I hope this is of interest to those of us who are disabled and would find life so much easier if this information was freely available. 

Sources:
Premier Inn spreadsheet.  Premier Inn Websites, Directrooms.com and Booking.com


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