Hotel gets more rooms despite only minor changes

A CARDIFF hotel is going to double the number of rooms it has inside, without making any major changes.

The plans for the Premier Inn, off Ipswich Road, Penylan, will see only internal alterations made for the change.

It will double the 70 existing rooms to 140.

The application will be a “prototype” for a new style of room according to the application to Cardiff council.

The company say: “Many guests at Premier Inns are in transit and/or spend little time in their bedrooms and Roath has been selected as a prototype for this new style”.

The changes are made by dividing the internal space differently and reducing room widths.

It would mean rooms are created on both sides of the corridor instead of as it is in the current arrangement.

The hotel restaurant/bar area will be increased under the plans.

Some of the rooms will be internally facing and have no windows.

The application reads: “Premier Inn have already experimented with this at some of their city centre hotels and found that guests are perfectly willing to use a room with no window. Seven universal access rooms are provided. These all have windows to the front elevation.

“Some rooms will have limited windows and the scheme introduces an inner skin to the front elevation wall so that external alterations are avoided”.

Permission for the increase in room numbers has been given by Cardiff council.