Our Story

From our first steps to becoming a trusted name in travel and how we continue to innovate and deliver on our promise.

Travelodge has an impressive history spanning over 40 years. We became the UK’s first budget hotel chain in 1985 with the opening of our first hotel in Barton-Under-Needwood. Today, we operate over 600 hotels across the UK, Ireland, and Spain, employing over 13,000 colleagues who welcome more than 22 million guests annually: