Hampton by Hilton Exeter Airport, Clyst Honiton

The Hampton by Hilton at Exeter Airport sits on Long Causeway in Clyst Honiton, immediately adjacent to the airport terminal. The site was taken into Home Office use under the Clearsprings Ready Homes asylum accommodation contract for the South West, and has been used to house female refugees, children and family groups only. ITV News Tonight included the site in a 2025 documentary on UK asylum hotels and confirmed the resident profile^[1]Broadcast.

The 2025 ITV News Tonight documentary on UK asylum hotels featured the Hampton by Hilton Exeter Airport, contrasting the resident profile (women, children and family groups) with sites elsewhere in the country housing single adult men, and detailing Clearsprings Ready Homes' role in the contract^[1]Broadcast.

East Devon News reported in autumn 2025 that Councillors Ed Hill and Angela Nash personally attended an anti asylum protest at the site and walked demonstrators away after confirming, in person, that the site housed only women, children and family groups, with no single adult men^[2]Press. Devon and Cornwall Police ran a multi event public order operation across the autumn 2025 weekend protests^[3]Press.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[4], a 130 room hotel run at full asylum occupancy implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £22,100 per night and roughly £8.1 million per year. That sits above the May 2025 NAO average of about £5.84 million per hotel^[5]NAO.