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"Britannia Hotels is a British hotel group with 61 hotels across the country. Britannia operates at the budget end of the market, and includes the Pontins Holiday Park portfolio. In recent years, Britannia Hotels has been a subject of widespread criticism over the hygiene and maintenance of its locations, with the consumer group Which? declaring the hotel chain to be the worst in the United Kingdom since October 2013: the controversies have contributed towards the growing general perception of Britannia Hotels as 'Britain's worst hotel chain.'"
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@sullivan912 Look into their CEO, Alex Langsam, and who he is. It explains much. He came from Vienna during WWII. The chain has been fined repeatedly.
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@HardRockMaster7577 What happened with Langsam was that the British Govt paid him a good amount to keep these people. I noticed that the regular room rate in the mentioned hotel was only $36 US a night, which would equal the price of a flea trap in the US. He's "nicknamed the ‘Asylum King’ who has had a home office contract since 2014 to house asylum seekers in his hotels."_The Telegraph. "In 2011/2012 the Home Office spent £150million providing accommodation for asylum seekers but the figure is now thought to be closer to £200million. 17 hotels within the Britannia chain housed asylum seekers in the last financial year. "_The Telegraph (2018) "Langsam is a non-domiciled taxpayer, registered as living in Austria for tax-purposes since 1999. His net personal worth was valued at £90 million in 2013 by The Sunday Times." Tax dodger as well? Still, amid "increasing pressure on Britannia Hotels over poor cleanliness, the Home Office temporarily rented rooms in three Britannia locations (two in Bournemouth, one in Folkestone) to house asylum seekers because of overcrowding at the detention centres. The Home Office also rented rooms for new refugees who were waiting for long-term housing." I'm wondering where he received the financing to purchase all those hotels in a relative short span of time.
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