{"id":30188,"date":"2023-01-10T23:12:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T22:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30188"},"modified":"2023-01-10T23:12:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T22:12:38","slug":"marcham-road-hotel-growth-since-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30188","title":{"rendered":"Marcham Road hotel growth since 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/20231001a.jpg\" alt=\"Premier Inn\" \/><br \/>\nThe new Premier Inn, being built next to the Tesco Extra, has gone up fast since my last visit and will have 86 rooms.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/20231003.jpg\" alt=\"Premier Inn\" \/><br \/>\nIn 2018 the Abingdon Oxford hotel became the Hilton Garden Inn and more than doubled in size with 84 new rooms in the four-story extension. So between them, that is an extra 170 hotel rooms since 2017.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/20231004.jpg\" alt=\"Premier Inn\" \/><br \/>\nThe older, smaller Premier Inn is still there on Marcham Road, and I have not heard any news about it changing use.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel business sector took a large dip in trade in 2020 and 2021 because of the Covid pandemic but is nearly back to normal trading levels according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/outlook\/mmo\/travel-tourism\/hotels\/united-kingdom\">Statista<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Premier Inn, being built next to the Tesco Extra, has gone up fast since my last visit and will have 86 rooms. In 2018 the Abingdon Oxford hotel became the Hilton Garden Inn and more than doubled in size with 84 new rooms in the four-story extension. So between them, that is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}