Aberystwyth

Location & Accessibility: The hotel is strategically located on the seaside promenade, offering direct access to the beach and a short walking distance to town centers, train stations, and local attractions, enhancing convenience for guests.

The hotel is on the sea front. Currently, you can't miss it as it's covered in scaffolding. You enter around the back of the building, past the cinema, where there is a small car park. The building next door has been completely gutted, with the whole walls removed at the back. It makes for a miserable locality. Check in was fine. Room was fine also, but looking tired. TV worked fine. Breakfast was above average, with everything you could possibly want - cooked items, cereals, fruit, etc. I find this hotel quite expensive at times, but they charge what people will pay I guess.

This is one of the more unusual Premier Inns that I’ve visited owing to the unusual construction. The hotel fascia is a retained part of a long parade of original properties right on the front at Marine Parade and the branding (a bit worn) is so subtle that you could miss it from that side. Most of the body of the hotel, including the car park and reception, is built at the back of the retained property and is the usual type of modern construction which you’d expect for the chain. Inside there are all the usual amenities apart from an explicit bar. If you want a drink then sit in the restaurant and the waiting staff will serve you at table. My room was the usual high standard but the odd arrangement makes the residential part a bit of a warren. Using the stairs down from my room on the top floor I was disconcerted to find one flight down put me back on a corridor and I had to find another staircase to get the rest of the way down. In the process, however, I did discover how to use the exit onto the seafront. There is a lift of course but I always like to check the stairs and this was the only niggle I had.