This article in The Star shows that Sheffield is on the up with hotel bookings nearing capacity, I like the bit about Sheffield being the jewel in Yorkshire's crown:

Sheffield hotels (http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=871794)

Hmm, the Novotel incident in the Star on Monday hasn't had any negative effect then.

It's good news. Occupancy rates have been on the up for a while now which does reflect well on progress.

The next problem to overcome is that rates are still very low.

By low rates to you mean that the rooms are too cheap ?

The Beauchief and The Rutland aren't that cheap, about £80 a night, which is not cheap to me.

Perhaps the new hotals will be more expensive, though I would have thought cheap rooms would be more apealing to visitors ?

£80 a night is VERY cheap by modern hotel standards. That is a typical corporate discounted rate, not the headline.

IBIS is still £40 on a weekend, back of the net :thumbsup:

Sheffield must be the only city in the country where it's probably impossible to splash out more than £150 on a hotel room. There's no choice whatsoever. Doesn't Huddersfield have more hotel rooms than Sheffield?

Originally posted by richynomates
Sheffield must be the only city in the country where it's probably impossible to splash out more than £150 on a hotel room.

Is that bad ?

i bet macdonlad will charge quite a bit for their top suites, especially when the snooker champoinship is on.

Originally posted by richynomates
Sheffield must be the only city in the country where it's probably impossible to splash out more than £150 on a hotel room.

Surely the Hilton has some expensive suites. I haven't looked at their prices personally, but that's where I would look first.

Ptigga

Originally posted by nick2
Is that bad ?

Yes it is bad, because it shows that the demand is just not there. Most cities are base to national/Multinational companies, with their visitors staying in the best hotels money can buy. It's quite easy to book in Manchester and Leeds at all budget levels.
Sheffield suffers from far too few hotel rooms.
I don't know where the stars stay when in town, but I know that Kylie stayed in the Marriott a couple of years ago.

Originally posted by richynomates
Yes it is bad, because it shows that the demand is just not there. Most cities are base to national/Multinational companies, with their visitors staying in the best hotels money can buy. It's quite easy to book in Manchester and Leeds at all budget levels.
Sheffield suffers from far too few hotel rooms.
I don't know where the stars stay when in town, but I know that Kylie stayed in the Marriott a couple of years ago.

But doesn't it makes more sense for hotels to have 200 cheap rooms than 20 realy expensive ones, they stand more chance of getting customers for cheap rooms. I think the low prices show that there is a demand for cheap rooms, hotels arn't daft, if they could charge £200 a room they would.

The problem with Sheffield is that the average room rate and the yield (average rate per available room) is still very low compared to other major cities and ranks alongside Nottingham. Manchester and Leeds have far high room rates and yield than Sheffield, in fact nearly twice as high.

I aint seen the PKF figures recently but last lot I looked at the RevPAR in Sheffield was around £41 compared with mid £70 for Leeds and Manchester.

You have to remember that the rate on board (the rack rate) is very rarely sold in a lot of hotels, especially in the non-budget brand hotels. So your £150 room in the Hilton is probably averaging nearer £90 if not lower. This is usually due to weekend promotions, corporate rates with companies etc.

The closure of the Hallam Tower Post House Forte Crest Holiday Inn West (or whatever it was called that week) and the closure of the Charnwood will have increased occupancy rates (less rooms + same demand = higher occupancy levels!)

Originally posted by MrHelicopter
The closure of the Hallam Tower Post House Forte Crest Holiday Inn West (or whatever it was called that week) and the closure of the Charnwood will have increased occupancy rates (less rooms + same demand = higher occupancy levels!)

Minimal impact. Charnwood only had 21 bedrooms and was very specialist, Post House struggled with its location and was never really regarded as competition from any of the city centre hotels.