- UK’s largest lodge firm indicators agreement-for-lease with JHT Inns Restricted
- Development of consented 81-bedroom Premier Inn is anticipated to start in 2025
- Belfast Worldwide acquisition is the third leasehold growth Whitbread has dedicated to at UK airport areas since September 2024
Whitbread PLC, the UK’s main hospitality firm and proprietor of Premier Inn, has dedicated to opening an 81-bedroom Premier Inn lodge at Belfast Worldwide Airport.
The corporate, which presently operates seven Premier Inn lodges in Northern Eire, signed an agreement-for-lease with JHT Inns Restricted, a subsidiary of Northern Eire developer J H Turkington and Sons in late December, paving the way in which for the supply of the brand new lodge in 2026.
The deal is the most recent in a collection of investments by Whitbread in UK airport areas. Since September 2024 the corporate has added greater than 550 Premier Inn bedrooms at Manchester, Edinburgh, and Belfast Airports as a part of its strategic progress plan.
Presently, in its principal UK and Eire market, the enterprise operates greater than 85,500 bedrooms from 855 areas and has an ambition to broaden its supply to 125,000 UK & Eire rooms.
The Belfast Airport growth will convey Premier Inn’s signature mixture of high quality and affordability to Northern Eire’s busiest airport, and a journey hub serving round six million passengers a 12 months (2023 figures) travelling to 55 home and worldwide locations.
The lodge will characteristic an on-site restaurant and bar, devoted parking services with 125 automotive areas and 7 mobility-impaired areas, landscaped grounds, and improved web site entry.
Native planning authority Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council granted planning permission for the event in mid-November 2024, paving the way in which for development of the brand new lodge to start in 2025. Round 30 new everlasting roles can be created on the lodge when the doorways open in mid-2026.
The brand new Belfast Worldwide Airport lodge can be constructed on the junctions of Airport Street, Antrim Street and British Roads – reverse the airport’s widespread long-stay automotive park and inside straightforward strolling distance of the airport terminal constructing.
It’s the first Premier Inn to be inbuilt Northern Eire because the opening of Premier Inn Lisburn lodge in 2019, with Whitbread set to take a position greater than £6 million within the new lodge (on a capitalised lease expenditure foundation)
Past Belfast, Whitbread is actively in search of new areas for Premier Inn in Belfast Metropolis Centre, Enniskillen and Newry (see whitbread.com/property for extra info) so as to add to its community of buying and selling lodges in Belfast, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Lisburn and Derry / Londonderry.
Premier Inn Belfast Worldwide Airport
Airport Street
Northern Eire, BT29 4AB
United Kingdom