Hampton by Hilton London Ealing

The Hampton by Hilton London Ealing is a four-star branded budget hotel on Uxbridge Road, between Ealing Broadway and West Ealing. It contains 182 rooms and was originally aimed at corporate and tourist guests, with published rates of around £200 a night for a double room^[1]Press.

By 2024 the property had been taken off the public market and was being operated by hospitality contractor SD Commercial as a closed Home Office migrant hotel. Reporters and walk-up guests were told the building was private and not bookable, and local shopkeepers said the switch had been bad for business^[3]Press.

Abdelrahmen Adnan Abouelela, a 42-year-old Egyptian national, raped a woman in Hyde Park in November 2024 while resident at the Hampton by Hilton London Ealing under Home Office asylum accommodation. He was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison^[1]Press.

LBC subsequently reported that Abouelela had a prior terror conviction abroad and that the Home Office had taken 17 months to make any decision on his asylum claim while he was housed in the Ealing hotel, raising screening, intelligence sharing and contractor oversight questions about the broader contingency hotel programme^[2]Press^[3]Press.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[4], the 182 room Hampton by Hilton in continuous Home Office use implies headline taxpayer exposure of roughly £30,940 per night and around £11.3 million per year, before contractor margin. The May 2025 NAO contract review put average UK asylum hotel run rates at about £5.84 million per year, putting the Ealing site well above the typical national line on capacity alone^[5]NAO.

The site also carries documented ancillary costs that flow through other budgets: the Met Police major investigation, Crown Court trial and CPS prosecution for the Hyde Park rape, plus initial custody and sentencing administration. None of those sit on the Home Office accommodation line, but all are traceable to a person whose asylum claim sat unprocessed in the hotel for 17 months.