Holiday Inn Maidenhead, Manor Lane

The Holiday Inn Maidenhead is an IHG branded hotel on Manor Lane in central Maidenhead, in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. From April 2022 it was contracted to Clearsprings Ready Homes under the South East AASC contract as the first major Berkshire asylum dispersal site, taking residents transferred from the Manston processing centre and from other regional contingency hotels^[1]Press.

Get Reading and BerkshireLive reporting from 2024 documented charity sector concerns about conditions at the Holiday Inn Maidenhead, with residents describing prolonged limbo while they waited for Home Office decisions on their asylum claims. Volunteers cited limited access to legal aid and to community activities outside the hotel^[2]Press.

An update from the same outlet in 2025 confirmed the Holiday Inn Maidenhead remained in continuous Clearsprings asylum use under the multi-year contract^[3]Press.

Thames Valley Police has issued community updates on the policing of the Holiday Inn Maidenhead, including incident response and neighbourhood reassurance work^[5]GOV.UK. The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council has separately acknowledged the site as a Clearsprings contracted asylum dispersal hotel and outlined council and police engagement with residents^[4]GOV.UK.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[6], a 180 room hotel run at full asylum occupancy implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £30,600 per night and roughly £11.2 million per year. Across the four years of asylum use that puts cumulative spend at around £40 to £45 million, although actual run rate varied with occupancy. The May 2025 NAO contract review put the average per hotel run rate across the wider portfolio at about £5.84 million per year^[7]NAO.