Football and Business

I agree Go, the next investment in the ground surely needs to be in the West and North stands. I wasn't relating this article to just Hotels which Jonty seems to rant on about. I was trying to discuss the things already built.

With SU they have had problems because they gave players rediculous wages and now struggle. As I understand it they are selling all the none core assets and cutting back on there plan for world dominance.

Cas, where am I ranting about hotels?

Out of town hotels do work if the customer base has enough on site facilities to cater for their needs. ER has fantastic motorway links and is a stones throw from the city centre. Add to that the on site parking and the freedom from the city centre loop system and you have enough reason to choose whether you want to be tied down to a busy city centre or have the luxury of being directly on a motorway junction.

Bywater, yeah but Beeston!
Onsite parking? On old demolition sites and non secure.

When I travel on business, I hate being out of town. When I have settled in I like to look around town, have a wander. But Beeston! Come on! Again apologies to local residents. I live in Reading close to the Madejski which has an hotel. Apart from a reasonably pleasant surrounding business park where you can take a walk, there is nothing there. I wouldn't stay there or at the nearby Hilton which is built on the old sewage works, and overlooks the new one.
Bad enough living a mile or so away!

Gbg, exactly!

So hilton have a hotel near madejski, premier inn have a hotel near ER.

Does this indicate that they are wrongly located?

Don't get me wrong, this scares the #### out of me, but are we really being objective?

i imagine the hotel would be of the premier inn type model with bates owning the site and leasing the management of the hotel to the hotel company as most hotels are not owned by the hotel group,sofitel,novotel,etc

i agree bywater,i dont want to stay in city centre due to parking and close to motorways is handy but the flip side is would you want to stay in beeston?

Whilst I wouldn't like to stay at the Madejski Millemium Hotel or The Hilton Hotel a couple of hundred yards away for the reasons I stated, I would rather stay at one of those than a Hotel in Beeston.
I only use Premier Inns / Lodges for what I know is going to be an overnight stay, where I get in late and leave early the next day. If I am staying longer I prefer to stay in a real hotel.