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Quarter of UK airport hotel rooms still booked out for migrant accommodation
Travel ancillaries provider Holiday Extras has today called for the government to make a proper long-term plan for migrant accommodations.
It comes as nearly a quarter of airport hotel rooms are still booked out indefinitely at some airports.
This is making pre-flight stays for holidaymakers more expensive.
It says over 10,000 rooms, or more than 24% of those normally available, are currently booked out indefinitely.
The company says this current approach places unnecessary costs and pressures on the airport hotel sector.
Matthew Pack, Holiday Extras CEO said, “Millions of UK holidaymakers every year need an airport hotel before they fly, either because they live a long way from the airport or are flying early in the morning.”
“We can’t compete with government block-booking contracts, so we’re being crowded out of our core market.”
Holiday Extras says it provides airport hotel stays for millions of customers.
This short-term solution during the travel lockdown has lasted more than three years, Holiday Extras says.
Airport hotels in the southeast are hardest hit with room shortages leading to big price rises.
A budget hotel room at Gatwick is up 75% since 2019.
Pack says this is ‘simply not sustainable.’
“The government needs to agree a proper long-term solution that is fair and humane.”
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