We're stopping off in Birmingham at the ibis budget.
Any idea if I can get my bike up in to the room ?
I'd just take it. We wheeled three filthy gravel/CX bikes into Premier inn after 4 days bike packing - they said nothing we did do our first night and last night there. Check in may be ask. You could always take it in as two wheels then a 'frame'.
At the airport? You’ll be lucky if it fits in the room!
Tom,
It's the one in the city centre. It's a twin bed room for 2, but only one bike. Not a tandem before you ask!
I took mine into a french ibis budget this summer. Took the wheels off to make it a bit more discrete. As above, rooms are pretty small.
I emailed them.
Amazing on two fronts.
Firstly they replied.
Secondly they said ' yes of course '
Happy days
I stayed in one a few years ago and when I showed up with my bike they said I could have it in the room if I really wanted to, but warned the room was very small. They were right and it went in an unused locked meeting room instead.
We wheeled three filthy gravel/CX bikes into Premier inn after 4 days bike packing - they said nothing we did do our first night and last night there.
Premier Inn have a clear 'bikes are OK' policy and AFAIK none of the others do, so in those cases I suppose it's basically at the discretion of whoever's on the desk when you arrive. You'd probably need to be pretty unlucky though to have a problem I reckon.
I had it with a premier Inn. We called them and they said that they would lead to make some space available to store our bikes. Then somebody else in the party called them and they said just take it into the room if that's what you're happy with. Turns out we didn't speak to anybody really after we got our keys and just took our bikes in via the back door. No one said anything but it was a tight squeeze with three bikes and a third bed in the room!
Some prem inns have lockable bike pods in car park.
I've brought my bike in to two 'posh' hotels when we've had a two day 'away day' for work. I'd cycled there and the hotels were happy for me to store the bike in an unused room. On one occasion the bike was absolutely filthy, but they were more than happy to keep it in a function room with an old sheet under it !
Never had a problem with Premier Inn or Travel Lodge. Once arrived at the central Windsor Travel Lodge at the same time as 12 riders from Long Eaton Velo who had ridden over 120 miles in the same pissing rain we'd driven down in, and the staff didn't bat an eyelid as they and their bikes dripped across reception, into the lifts and up into their rooms.
Premier Inns and Travel Lodges always allow bikes in rooms, ideally not covered in mud.
Ibis on the continent is generally a yes, as is Ibis Budget - or they will have somewhere to lock it up.
Ibis Styles is almost always a no.
When driving I usually take a cheap bike bag with me and take it up to the room with wheels off and handle bars sticking out.
Premier inn Scarborough let us store 4 bikes in a store room for 2 nights.
If your bike if filthy as ours were, Premier Inn will provide you with bike washing facilities, which was a tub and sponge at Edinburgh Airport.
we use Ibis home and abroad. never had a problem taking bikes into the room. last year in holland they even swapped us from a upper floor room to a ground floor room to make it easier for us to get bikes in.
love ibis hotels.
Ibis in Netherlands and Belgium both refused us bikes to the room - asked we parked in the 5000(!) space bike park across the way.