'˜Surely there are enough hotels and B&Bs already': Super budget hotel chain easyHotel to open in Blackpool

A “super budget” hotel with rooms at as little as £9.99 a night, is to open in the resort.

The super budget hotel chain easyHotel has signed a 999-year lease agreement to open a site at 429 Promenade in South Shore.

The company currently owns nine hotels in the UK, as well as in Barcelona, Spain.

It has another 23 franchised hotels at locations across the UK, Europe and Dubai and boasts sale offers on its website of rooms for £9.99 a night.

Guy Parsons, chief executive of easyHotel, said: “Our super-budget offer will enable visitors to have affordable, comfortable, stylish accommodation at the heart of Britain’s seaside culture.”

But is it what Blackpool needs? We asked for your views and here are a selection of them...

Why is the council allowing this to happen?

They are allowing them to put B&Bs like mine out of business!

Cause that’s what will happen!

Lorraine Hodson

So I’ve read some comments from people to suggest existing B&B owners reduce their rooms to £10 per night to compete.

By the time they’ve paid out the cost for breakfast, laundry, gas, electric, water, TV licence, entertainment licence, public liability insurance, broadband, PAT testing, fire safety certificate, council tax and the maintenance of rooms i.e. light bulbs, soap, loo rolls etc and probably a heap of other expenses I’ve forgotten to mention.

I’m sure they’re going to be delighted with the 27p they’re going to make on every room!

Gayle S Read

I support people making a living from their B&Bs and Guesthouses.

This hotel chain is driving the price point down to crush the fair competition that is already struggling, which I do not support. Haven’t we learnt anything from the likes of the supermarket chains and Amazon?

I’m all for competition, but this takes it too far in my opinion.

It’s all very well saying that hotel owners should up their game and modernise or shut down, but where do hotel owners get the £s from that would be required to modernise?