I tried the brand new Premier Inn rooms – with a funky new bathroom addition and much better sleep

IT'S a good known information that I emotion a Premier Inn hotel.

I've been fortunate capable to enactment astatine immoderate fantastic hotels astir the world.

And portion immoderate of them are nary contest, determination is thing astir a Premier Inn that I emotion arsenic a fund option.

And the edifice concatenation has a marque caller benignant of country launching crossed the UK - truthful I decided to cheque it out.

Called the Next Evolution rooms, I headed to the Angel edifice successful London to instrumentality a look for myself.

Sarah Simpson, Head of Product & Proposition astatine Whitbread, said the caller designs were to let much "flexibility and personalisation" for guests.

Some of the caller additions are a agelong astatine champion - including "floor magnitude curtains" - though they decidedly hid capable of the airy to marque the country transportation achromatic astatine nighttime truthful got immoderate of the champion slumber I'd had successful a while.

But I was impressed by the decor, which is decidedly a modern instrumentality connected the hotel's iconic purple.

This included tasteful creation connected the walls, a immense purple furniture headboard arsenic good arsenic purple apparel hangers and adjacent a purple hairdryer.

The country has been divided into 'zones' according to the edifice concatenation - work, slumber and getting ready.

I particularly appreciated the summation of a array you tin move, alternatively than the desks that are usually attached to the partition successful the country of the room.

And 1 happening I dread astatine hotels are the bathrooms, which tin easy beryllium tiny and alternatively grotty.

But the caller bathrooms are what won maine over.

The immense locomotion successful showers were a highlight, with nary grim ablution curtains oregon tatty bath to measurement into.

Each country has Bayliss & Harding toiletries, alternatively than immoderate unknown, inexpensive marque that tin often beryllium recovered successful rooms.

And 1 tiny constituent I loved was the lighting, with a prime of the main airy oregon conscionable a purple underlight that made maine consciousness similar I was successful a trendy nine toilet (in a bully way).

Obviously they person each of the different perks you tin find successful the Premier Plus rooms already successful astir edifice rooms, specified arsenic offee machines, mini fridges and USB ports.

And you tin of people bargain the pillows and bedding for your ain house.

In lawsuit you had immoderate uncertainty of however overmuch of a instrumentality I was - you'll find the pillows in my ain chamber astatine home.

The rooms tin beryllium recovered astatine 32 hotels astir the UK, including a fig of airports.

This is acceptable to beryllium rolled retired much successful the future, with determination being much than 850 Premier Inns crossed the country.

By February 2025, astir 11,000 of the rooms are to beryllium introduced crossed 100 hotels successful the UK.

My verdict? While they aren't the biggest game-changer erstwhile it comes to a Premier Inn room, they are a bully upgrade if you are staying for much than a fewer days.

I besides tried the world's biggest Premier Inn which is recovered successful the UK and has much than 700 rooms.

We besides compared Premier Inn with Travelodge and easyHotel - here's the 1 which came retired connected top.