The “mini solus” prototype features automated check-in kiosks, smaller public space and 60 to 80 guestrooms. The first hotel with this format opened in April in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Whitbread PLC, owner of Premier Inn, has indicated that in order to accelarate its development scheme, it will roll out a smaller format of the brand, even more practical, accessible and profitable.Premier Inn's "mini solus" prototype features automated check-in kiosks, with smaller public space, and smaller hotel capacity between 60 to 80 rooms. “These changes have allowed us to sign up for new hotels as part of large mixed-use developments, and over high street stores,” has indicated Mark Anderson, property and commercial director, Whitbread Hotels & Restaurants. “We continually review the design of our new hotels. In some of our new Premier Inn sites, this has led to us redesigning areas in the building to improve the way that we maximise and utilise available space. We have managed to gain efficiencies in the space used, especially in the reception area where self check-in kiosks ensure our guests can get to their rooms within minutes of arriving,” Anderson said. Premier Inn has a pipeline of six more mini solus. Whitbread plans to add approximately 4,000 rooms in 2011 and some 65,000 rooms during the next five years.Premier Inn's "mini solus" prototype features automated check-in kiosks, with smaller public space, and smaller hotel capacity between 60 to 80 rooms. “These changes have allowed us to sign up for new hotels as part of large mixed-use developments, and over high street stores,” has indicated Mark Anderson, property and commercial director, Whitbread Hotels & Restaurants. “We continually review the design of our new hotels. In some of our new Premier Inn sites, this has led to us redesigning areas in the building to improve the way that we maximise and utilise available space. We have managed to gain efficiencies in the space used, especially in the reception area where self check-in kiosks ensure our guests can get to their rooms within minutes of arriving,” Anderson said. Premier Inn has a pipeline of six more mini solus. Whitbread plans to add approximately 4,000 rooms in 2011 and some 65,000 rooms during the next five years.