Travelodge buys nine Hotel Campanile sites

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• TimM says:

  20 Apr20 April 04:34

  “This is not the end of Hotel Campanile in the UK. It seems that a handful of sites will remain in cities such as Cardiff and Hull. The broader brand contains over 300 hotels, primarily in Europe.”

  The UK may not be in the EU but it is in Europe. Perhaps “primarily in continental Europe.” would be a better choice of words?

  • Mike Fish says:

    20 Apr20 April 04:48

    I don’t see an issue, it is primarily in Europe, the rest being in Africa and Asia.

    • Tom says:

      20 Apr20 April 14:57

      But when someone tells me that they are “off to Europe” for a holiday, they generally do not mean that they are going to Brighton or Blackpool!

  • Andrew. says:

    20 Apr20 April 08:20

    “On the Mainland”?

  • CJD says:

    20 Apr20 April 09:01

    Most people would understand that sentence to mean continental Europe.

  • Tom says:

    20 Apr20 April 14:55

    Many folks consider that “Europe” starts at Calais, and that we are an island off the coast of Europe.

  • Jack R says:

    21 Apr21 April 02:48

    I see nothing wrong with it at all. In fact, the Cambridge Dictionary gives as one of its definitions of Europe “the continent of Europe without including the UK” – https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/europe

• BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

  20 Apr20 April 10:17

  That green ‘structure’ looks like a drain from the room above!

• Mike P says:

  20 Apr20 April 10:47

  Blast from the past. Surprised they’re still going and that the Campanile in Cardiff is still there. Remember eating in the restaurant there in the early 90s!

• ADS says:

  20 Apr20 April 10:49

  I’d never hear of Campanile … but came across this investment brochure from a few years ago where they were planning a huge expansion … guess that didn’t happen!

  https://contents.louvrehotels.com/static/2022-03/campanile_brochure_investisseur_eng2022.pdf

• the_real_a says:

  20 Apr20 April 14:27

  I remember about 20 years ago staying at the one in Swindon on and off for several months (£19.99 a night).

  The chef was young and trained in a top Paris restaurant.
  We were eating chef “specials board” gourmet dishes for £8. It was so good we used to go and eat even when not staying at the hotel.

• tw33ty says:

  20 Apr20 April 16:12

  According to visitors who booked their own hotel when they come to site, The one in Runcorn was always full of working girls…

• mkcol says:

  20 Apr20 April 22:41

  The MK one is an utter dump.

• RoamingRanger says:

  20 Apr20 April 23:40

  The Salford one is quite a low density building in a rapidly developing area – lots of huge residential towers going up all around it.

  I wonder if they’ve got plans for a bigger re-development on that site?

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