It hasn't been a very happy new year for budget hotel chains. Which? Holiday magazine has found mouldy mattresses, dirty toilets and stained duvets at various Ibis and Travelodge hotels in London and Manchester.
This will be a shock to Travelodge who spend millions on their PR every year. But they haven't done a very good job of handling this, saying that the "levels of uncleaness" found did not pose a risk to health. I wouldn't have thought using a dirty toilet would be part of many people's January detox efforts.
My only experience of UK budget hotels is a Premier Inn in North London, which is always perfectly clean. Do these reports of minging mattresses and lacklustre loos sound familiar to you?
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Wow this story is certainly getting some airing... I've seen it all over the web! I bet Ibis and Travelodge are really thanking Which? for publishing this article - what a time to give them a bashing! Glad I'm not in their Sales & Marketing Dept!
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