Premier Inn Oxford City Centre (Westgate) hotel
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Premier Inn has opened the doors to its new flagship location in Oxford city centre at Paradise Square, a few metres from the Westgate Shopping Centre.
The new 90-bedroom hotel brings Premier Inn's latest format bedrooms, including its enhanced Premier Plus rooms, into the heart of Oxford city centre for the very first time.
Whitbread, which owns the Premier Inn hotel chain, started working on plans for the hotel in 2013 following the acquisition of a 1980s office building which originally occupied the site.
The redevelopment provided the opportunity to improve and enhance Paradise Square, a public space adjacent to the hotel, and 27 new jobs have been created at the hotel on opening.
A joint architectural team of Rick Mather Architects and Allison Pike Partnership designed the Westgate Premier Inn to reflect its historic location in the city. The brick hotel building steps down in height from the Westgate Shopping Centre in the west to the more domestic scale of the Friary Centre to the east.
The Oxford city centre (Westgate) hotel is the second Premier Inn to open in Oxford this year, following the opening of a 123-bedroom hotel at Botley in May, and grows the brand's network of hotels in Oxford to four locations. The company anticipates that 35,000 guests will stay at the Westgate hotel every year based on pre-pandemic occupancy data.
