Four Points by Sheraton London Gatwick Airport, Horley

The hotel building has had multiple identities. It traded as a Thistle hotel before later operating as the Chequers Hotel, then closed in 2013. It reopened in 2021 as one of the government's managed COVID-19 quarantine hotels, and from there entered Home Office contingency use as an asylum accommodation site. The property now trades under the Marriott Four Points by Sheraton brand at the Bonehurst Road, Horley location^[1]Press.

In August 2025 The Gazette reported around 200 anti-immigration protesters wearing St George's and Union flags clashed with about 30 Stand Up to Racism counter-demonstrators outside the hotel, with anti-racism protesters heckled by residents while they marched through Horley, and the anti-immigration crowd singing songs backing activist Tommy Robinson. Surrey Live reported Surrey Police made three arrests on the day and ran a multi-cordon public-order operation to keep the two groups separated^[2]Press^[3]Press.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[4], running the Four Points Gatwick at full asylum occupancy of around 200residents implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £34,000 per night and roughly £12.4 million per year. The May 2025 NAO contract review put the average per hotel run rate across the wider portfolio at about £5.84 million per year^[5]NAO.