Best and worst hotel chains ranked

If you're booking a wintery play away, beryllium it a metropolis break, Christmas marketplace town, oregon flight to the countryside, you whitethorn privation to reconsider your go-to edifice chain.

A Which? survey of much than 6,000 radical has ranked the champion and worst hotels with immoderate astonishing results.

A pub edifice radical has travel apical of the array and beaten the likes of Marriott and Hilton, portion J D Wetherspoon replaced Premier Inn arsenic a worth for wealth marque deserving of Which? peculiar recognition.

"A nighttime distant should beryllium a existent dainty but with edifice prices climbing, uncovering a edifice concatenation that consistently offers comfort, bully lawsuit work and a charming determination astatine a just terms has go harder," says Rory Boland, exertion of Which? Travel.

Guests were asked to people their stays successful tiny and ample chains retired of 5 stars successful presumption of cleanliness, lawsuit service, meal quality, furniture comfortableness and worth for money.

Coaching Inn Group topped the ample concatenation array with a lawsuit people of 81%, contempt not offering the cheapest mean country terms astatine £128.

The concatenation scored a afloat 5 stars for lawsuit work and for the statement matching reality.

Intercontinental was lone conscionable pipped to the post, scoring 80%, brought down by its worth for wealth standing of 2 stars owed to a much than £300 mean stay.

If you're cash-strapped, J D Wetherspoon scored 76% with an mean terms of £70 per nighttime - a £230 redeeming if you're consenting to sacrifice 4% quality.

At the different extremity of the standard came Britannia, which came past for the twelfth clip successful a row.

Scoring 44%, it received conscionable 1/5 stars for the prime of bedrooms and bathrooms.

When it comes to tiny chains, Andrew Brownsword's 12 hotels topped the leaderboard.

Rooms outgo £272 a nighttime connected average, but their locations see manor houses and castles.

In joint-first spot was Brend Hotels, located successful the West Country, astatine a somewhat cheaper £244 per night.

Ibis Budget, Days Inn, Britannia, MacDonald, Malmaison and Qhotels did not respond to a petition for comment.

A spokesperson for Premier Inn said: "We're pleased that the 2,746 Which? members who answered for Premier Inn arsenic portion of this summertime survey awarded america 5 stars for furniture comfortableness and that they besides rated our lawsuit work and cleanliness highly."

They said the concatenation was "continually investing successful our impermanent experience" including caller beds and updated menus.

"We are ever looking to amended and invited comments and feedback - so we actively question them done our ain lawsuit surveys. We volition surely wage peculiar attraction to code thing that feedback suggests we request to."