Premier Inn Housing Homeless

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As a family of four we very often have short breaks away in Premier Inn. Mostly just 1 night at a time, occasionally up to 3 nights at a time.

We've noticed on a few occasions now, Premier Inns seem to be housing homeless local families/individuals. On our most recent break of 3 nights this particular hotel seemed to be mainly housing homeless people. Some with obvious substance issues. There was one family with a very small baby, the man in the couple obviously very volatile and uncomfortable to witness/be around his manner to the young woman.

No one seemed to dress in the morning, all just downstairs just rolled out of bed in various dishevelled states.

It all made us feel really uncomfortable to be honest and now considering cancelling future breaks we have booked.

Honestly, if a local council are willing to fund a hotel to house homeless I'm impressed if anything. It's not that I'm not all for them having that help, especially the young couple with a tiny baby. I can see locally how much homelessness has increased and that there is a rising need for help.

However, with this most recent stay I think the right thing would be to now close that particular hotel for general bookings. We honestly felt that we were holidaying in a homeless shelter and it was really uncomfortable for us and we were particularly unhappy with some of the behaviour around our young kids.

Also can't help feeling awful for feeling this way, because I'm also very glad for them they're getting help. Feel really uncomfortable and conflicted about how we felt. Fed all this back to Premier Inn when received their usual "how was your stay" email and they've just totally ignored it.

Just wondered if anyone else had noticed similar and if it had/would put you off?

I was one of those homeless people put in temporary accommodation hotels after my delightful husband left me and our child homeless

I didn’t even have a stable roof, let alone the means to save up and get myself a little holiday.

More virtue signalling. If only other posters were as liberally-minded and kind as you are the world would be a better place, no?

Not really the point though, is it?
I suppose the question would be, if you did manage to save up for a holiday, would you be happy to find the hotel was more like a hostel?

I think it would depend for me what kind of homeless we're talking about. Are these ordinary families who are in funded temporary accommodation, or street homeless who often have significant mental health and substance abuse issues?

Why wouldn't they?? You can book 364 days in advance. I have 4 future bookings right now going up to September 2026!

I’m afraid I cannot find it in myself to Hd that deeply selfish

Dreadful but serious question to everyone. In earlier generations women didn't work to the extent they do now yet there was not this level of homelessness. What happened then that was different?

Thatcher hadn’t sold off all the council houses yet…

Travelodge on Abingdon Road in Oxford have them. Didn’t ruin my stay there last summer.

I think it depends on the individual in the hotel room next to you.

As a person with a serious mental illness who is medicated, I would not want to stay in a room next to someone with the same condition who is unmedicated and on drugs, homeless or not. I would maybe not BE safe let alone not FEEL safe.
Im not saying everyone with serious mental illness should be medicated as that’s a free choice- just that I wouldn’t be happy to trust them myself as I know what kind of thoughts & impulses you can get.

And if the homeless person was an individual like a man I once knew who was a heroin addict with a history of threatening ppl with knives, well I wouldn’t want to be next door to him either. Sadly he got murdered on a park bench.

Yet some homeless ppl are just ordinary non dodgy people like one of my friends with her two teens was - their rental had been sold and they were unable to afford another quick enough for various reasons.

Also you never know what the actual legitimate hotel guests will be like:

In my town - we get groups of (mostly white, English) men from London area, staying in cheaper hotels for weekends where one will pretend to be single and invite or coerce a local woman back; she then ends up getting gang raped but the cases never gets to court usually due to the victim being drunk / high etc.
(I have heard that the local police hate these kind of men and rough them up a bit before they reach the cells and then have to be released.)

You can’t always trust hotel staff members either sadly.

I haven't stayed at a Premier Inn that obviously had homeless people staying but I have stayed in a cheap hotel in the US with that issue and had drunk people yelling outside. It wasn't nice.

Actually my cousin and her child were homeless while waiting for a flat after her partner left, they lived in 1 room for 2 years. Just not a hotel room.

Go back to earlier decades, we didn't have homeless destroying the fabric of our living life?

So rather than eliminate disgraceful behaviour at budget hotels, this is a green light to ship in the homeless free of charge . NO, STOP all bad behaviour and revert to what hotels are for - holidays, business stays. Not homeless hostels.

If your business model is homeless hostels, good. But if it is a fee paying hotel do not blur the lines. Surefire way to damage your reputation.

But why did she not take responsibility and take a job no matter if low paid and secure her own accommodation?

Where has this poster said her cousin didn't have job?

The local authority i work for place homeless people for emergency accomodation in local hotels and b&bs. Our town has a travelodge so that's where they are housed. Its not nice for the homeless as they have nowhere to cook or keep fresh food and its not one with a restaurant either but its better than the street and the level of homelessness is growing. Rental prices are ridiculous considering the rates of pay here and that parts of the town are high on the deprivation index.

Tell me you have zero idea of the system (both rental and benefits) without telling je you have no idea.

How lovelh it must be to be so cushioned

Of course, only the great unwashed of society behave badly….

I can assure you I am not cushioned and have had a hard and difficult life. This is part of the reason why I am so keen to champion personal responsibility as it is the only way to progress. If someone refuses to take personal responsibility they are setting themselves up for a lifetime misery.

Then explain to me the problem that presents itself for anyone who is in emergency housing if they get a job. I’ll wait….

There is a crisis in emergency housing in many councils! I regularly stay in premier inns and unless there was anti social behaviour I’d just be pleased people had a warm bed and weren’t in the streets!

The housing situation in our area is shocking and working in urgent mental health care, I see usually young people who are told they don’t meet the criteria for even emergency housing and have no choice but to sleep rough!

It isn’t a bad thing for people to see the reality of the situation, no one chooses homelessness and being at the mercy of the council is a desperate situation. Those that are housed temporarily in hotels would rather have long term homes where they can start to build a life.

Yes OP. We travel for sport and stay at Premier Inns. All the same, comfy bed, clean etc.

The last 2 times we have seen a) 3 blokes having fisty cuffs. Clearly on something. Definitely homeless and b) a group of people who looked like they wouldn’t normally know each other, but were hanging out with each other, looking like clear drug users (my job means I’m used to seeing drug users).

This happened this summer. NEVER seen this before.

These were Premier Inns on the outskirts of cities, so not central.

Homeless people should have a bed for the night, well they should have a home to be frank. But placing them in family hotels and where we are paying £100 per night is a bit bloody rich.

And as an aside, we are not building houses quickly enough, nor will we ever build quickly enough, and if we tolerate illegal immigration at the rate we are, the folk mentioned above will never get a roof over their heads.

Think I’ll stay somewhere else. I gave feedback to PI.

We have a massive housing crisis so I'm afraid it's going to become a lot more common for budget hotels to be used as temporary accommodation for the homeless.

A problem is not created in one large sweep but rather a series of issues that culminate. The same applies for extraditing oneself. Smallsteps. You have more control over your life and actions than anyone else.

Whether that is wise relationship decisions, solid contraception, a low wage job, abstain from substances or...
Take control, no matter how small the first step is.