Premier Inn Preston: budget hotel provision near the city centre

One of the two entries people actually search for when they need a bed in Preston.

Premier Inn provides budget hotel accommodation in Preston, near the city centre. With Travelodge it is one of the two most searched accommodation entries in this directory.

The relevant practical point is walkability. Central budget hotels are the group that suits a rail arrival, because everything in the city centre — the markets, the Harris, Fishergate, the top of Avenham Park — is inside a twenty minute walk. The corridor and country hotels in this category assume a car.

Chains operate more than one site in a catchment of this size and the naming can be ambiguous, so confirm which location you are booking before travelling.

Near the centre

Preston's beds sort themselves by road, and this is one of only two that sit inside the walking city: the station, Fishergate and the market are all reachable on foot from the door. The road frame is on the places to stay sheet.

Along with the Travelodge, this is one of the two central entries; the rest are on the corridors. Preston's advantage for a central stay is scale: the commercial centre is compact, the street pattern is legible, and the distances between the things a visitor came for are short enough that the walk between them is part of the visit, not an obstacle to it.

What is on foot from a central base

The markets, the Harris, the Flag Market and Miller Arcade are all inside a few hundred metres of each other. South of them the ground drops through Winckley Square to the Victorian parks and the Ribble, which is the best walk in the city and starts at the edge of the shopping streets.

North of the centre the university campus runs into the commercial streets with no clear boundary, and Deepdale is about a mile out on that side — walkable, and normally walked on a match day.

What else is west of the centre

Preston railway station sits on the West Coast Main Line at the western edge of the centre and is a national interchange and no local halt, which is what makes a near-central stay workable without a car. From it the Fishergate slope runs up into the commercial core.

North of the centre the university campus runs into the shopping streets with no clear boundary; south, the ground falls through the garden squares into Avenham and Miller Parks and down to the Ribble. Both are walks of a few minutes.