Hotels
What's happened to the mercure royal oak Hotel is it opening again
Started: 31st Mar 2022 at 16:44
Did not know it had shut
Replied: 31st Mar 2022 at 17:31
It was being used for the homeless.
Replied: 31st Mar 2022 at 18:48
aye and they trashed it, It needed a refurb before it was fit for human consumption again,
Replied: 31st Mar 2022 at 19:31
Oh I see
How is Kevin these days
Replied: 31st Mar 2022 at 19:37
Kevin is fine, he never stopped in the hotel although he got invited, He looked at the occupants and said, " I'll stay in the woods" ,
Replied: 31st Mar 2022 at 21:08
I know a girl who is a cleaner there.. Since it was a refuge for the homeless/asylum seekers/Immigrants hostel.. It has turned into a s***hole. It will need a fortune spent to bring it back... But apparently Wigan Metro are making a fortune out of it... Does that surprise you..?
Replied: 31st Mar 2022 at 21:09
our once proud town with charters from ages ago has turned into a lost land R I P Wigan
Replied: 31st Mar 2022 at 21:17
Its not just Wigan annemarie, Its a nationwide if not globalwide disease of tolerance , no discipline and lackadaisy approach to the yoof of the World, It started with the ending of corporal punishment,
Spare the rod and ruin the child,
Replied: 31st Mar 2022 at 21:41
“But apparently Wigan Metro are making a fortune out of it... Does that surprise you..?”
The only thing that surprises me is how much attention people pay to rumours and how quick they are to repeat them.
Replied: 1st Apr 2022 at 07:12
What else do expect when they are coming from countries whose standards of living are like what they used to be in our country years ago.
Some of you need to visit some of the inner city districts of our big cities like Birmingham, Bradford, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham etc to see how life in many of the districts are now like what they were pre second world war.
Replied: 1st Apr 2022 at 08:15
Last edited by Owd Codger: 1st Apr 2022 at 08:44:44
How awful. I have stayed at the mercure hotel many times for my trips to Wigan and always found it comfortable and clean with friendly staff. Not been since covid erupted obviously and I must admit that I have wondered if it has changed in order to survive . The hotel at Standish has done the same and you can't blame them if that's the only way to survive , and I know it sounds snobbish, but if I am paying top price for a room do I want to be in a hostel for the homeless? is the Premier Inn running normally. I have stayed there too
Replied: 1st Apr 2022 at 08:57
I have been in the Premier Inn on Harrogate Street, and I think that they have done a marvellous job of turning the derelict concrete monstrosity, which was the police station, into a fine looking building[, but I suppose it was an hotel of sorts when it was the cop shop
The council wouldn't have undertaken such a renovation, they would have demolished it, and replaced it with something awful, the same way they won't renovate The Galleries, they are tearing it down and replacing it with flats
But that Premier Inn renovation, just shows how a building can be repurposed into something decent and worthwhile
Replied: 1st Apr 2022 at 14:01
Remember the money wasted on building of a tunnel from what was the Police Station to the Wigan Court building which only lasted around six years before the Police Station was moved to the "5 Star" new building on Robin Park Road?
Replied: 2nd Apr 2022 at 00:44
Yes, but it was a 'special' tunnel, it was a magic tunnel, because it was a tunnel in the sky
Replied: 2nd Apr 2022 at 10:45
TtS, Isn't the Premier Inn a newbuild? It looks nothing like the old police station at all. It did you write your post on 1st April?
Replied: 2nd Apr 2022 at 14:00
same building kath, have a look on google maps and change the date. at top left
I'll try the link here if i can remember how to do it..., police_station
Replied: 2nd Apr 2022 at 14:17
Kathpressey
As Pewfall says, it is the old police station, no April Fool joke
Replied: 2nd Apr 2022 at 14:23
I will also confirm, It was the old cop shop,
Replied: 2nd Apr 2022 at 15:06
well there can't be much of the police station left within that Premier Inn
Replied: 3rd Apr 2022 at 08:36