By Angela Green
Pub & Bar News is sponsored by Newbridge Software
The sizzling start to September has been warmly received by pubs with rooms operator The Inn Collection Group, after a weekend of bumper occupancy rates across their network of inns.
Last weekend saw 99% of rooms were booked across the north of England and North Wales as locations basked in temperatures in the mid-twenties ensuring demand remained high in the first week following the school summer holidays. Properties in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, Co Durham, North Yorkshire, North Wales, Lancashire, and the Lake District, sold 1007 of 1013 available rooms across 26 sites on Saturday evening.
Cumbria’s national park was the peak performer with all nine open sites fully booked, whilst North Yorkshire was close behind with just one room of the 95 available at The Harrogate Inn.
Included in this region’s successes was the newly reopened The Knaresborough Inn, with 100% occupancy coming just one week since it returned from a multi-million-pound refurbishment.
In total 24 out of 26 properties were at 100% of capacity, continuing what has to date been an impressive year for the Newcastle-based hospitality operator.
With growth showing across the group, rooms director Kate Bentley says that is an endorsement from The Inn Collection Group’s customers and that there will be more to come in the final quarter of the year. She said: We’re naturally delighted that our inns proved so popular last weekend and that we have been able to carry forward the momentum of what has been overall a positive summer for us.
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