Holiday Inn Express London Gatwick, Crawley

The Holiday Inn Express London Gatwick, Crawley is a roughly 138-room budget hotel at Haslett Avenue East / The Squareabout in Three Bridges, near Crawley town centre and Gatwick Airport. Crawley has been one of the larger asylum-hotel towns in the South East: Home Office figures reported 432 asylum seekers in Crawley hotels at the end of December 2024, across all of the town's contingency hotels^[2]Press.

On 9 August 2024, during the wave of hotel-focused protests that summer, the Holiday Inn Express in Three Bridges was the target of a demonstration. An anti-racism campaign live report named the hotel (Haslett Avenue East, RH10 1UA) as being used to accommodate refugees and recorded a counter-protest of around 500 people^[1]Press. The Home Office has not publicly named this hotel as asylum accommodation, and the operator, resident numbers and start/end dates are not confirmed in public sources.

No site-specific cost figure has been published, so the following is an illustrative benchmark only. At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory figure^[3], a roughly 138-room hotel at full asylum occupancy would imply order-of-magnitude exposure of about £23,000 per night. The May 2025 NAO contract review put the average per-hotel run rate across the portfolio at about £5.84 million per year^[4]NAO.