Holiday Inn London Heathrow, Sipson
The Holiday Inn London Heathrow at Sipson sits inside the M25 in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The borough hosts one of the densest clusters of asylum hotels in the country, a function of its position around Heathrow as a port of entry. Hillingdon's MP Danny Beales has repeatedly raised the cost and political pressure on the borough's asylum hotel concentration in Parliament[3]Hansard.
Capacity
616
rooms
Per night
£170
per resident
Annual
£38m
estimated
Background
The Holiday Inn London Heathrow is a long-established airport-corridor hotel in the village of Sipson, immediately north of Heathrow's Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 complex. Like many other large airport hotels, it has been used by Home Office contractors as asylum accommodation under the London region contract during the 2022-26 surge in hotel use.
The Hillingdon airport-corridor cluster
Hillingdon's MP Danny Beales has used parliamentary questions to highlight the borough's exceptional concentration of asylum hotel capacity. The cluster around Heathrow includes multiple Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and Radisson properties, alongside smaller airport-side hotels. The Migration Observatory's 2025 review confirmed that London hosts a disproportionate share of the national hotel portfolio[1].
Cost analysis
At the £170 per-person per-night Migration Observatory benchmark[1], a hotel of this scale represents headline taxpayer exposure in the high-five-figures per night and well above £30 million per year if fully utilised. The May 2025 NAO contract review confirmed that London-region hotel modalities are consistently the most expensive across the system[2]NAO.
Per-person per-day cost stack (benchmark)
£170- Hotel rate (room + three meals)£10059%
- Weekly cash allowance£74%
- Legal aid & casework£127%
- NHS / interpreter / utilities£1911%
- Contractor / security overhead£3219%
Cost in context
Holiday Inn Heathrow Sipson
£170
benchmark
UK asylum hotel avg
£170
NAO
Heathrow budget hotel
£90
commercial
Hostel bed
£30
commercial
Timeline
Timeline
Pre-2022
Operates as a commercial airport-corridor Holiday Inn at Sipson
2022-23
Hotel taken into asylum use
London region contract framework.
2024-26
Subject of repeated parliamentary scrutiny by Hillingdon MP
Sources
- Asylum accommodation in the UK — Migration Observatory, University of Oxford, Aug 2025
£170 per person per day in hotels (2024/25 average); used for per-hotel estimates and food/utilities breakdowns.
- The Home Office's asylum accommodation contracts — National Audit Office, May 2025
222 hotels in use; £1.296 billion annual (2024/25); per-hotel approximately £5.84 million.
- Government has closed eleven asylum hotels — Danny Beales MP (constituency statement), 2026
Statement by Danny Beales MP confirming the closure of the Holiday Inn London-Heathrow (Sipson) as part of the early-2026 tranche of asylum hotel closures.