The Roundhouse Hotel, Bournemouth
The Roundhouse Hotel is a Britannia chain hotel near the Lansdowne in central Bournemouth. The Sun, as reproduced by the Daily Sceptic, reported in August 2025 that it has 102 rooms[8]Press. It is the third of three adjacent Britannia seafront hotels block booked by the Home Office for asylum accommodation, alongside the Chine and the Britannia Hotel. From July 2025 the site became the focal point of the Bournemouth Patriots weekly protests, which reached the four month mark in November 2025[2]Press. In July 2026 Bournemouth One reported that the hotel was expected to stop housing asylum seekers by October 2026[7]Press.
Capacity
102
rooms (The Sun via the Daily Sceptic, August 2025)
Background
The Roundhouse sits at the eastern edge of Bournemouth town centre near the Lansdowne, a short walk from the seafront and from Bournemouth University. The property, which The Sun (via the Daily Sceptic) reported has 102 rooms, is part of the Britannia chain owned by Alex Langsam, the same group whose hotels at the Chine and the neighbouring Britannia on Meyrick Road make up the rest of the Bournemouth asylum cluster[3]Press.
GB News reported in August 2025 that 304 rooms across three Bournemouth hotels, which it did not name, had been taken over by Home Office officials[1]Press.
2025 protests
From July 2025 the Roundhouse became the principal venue for the weekly demonstrations organised by the Bournemouth Patriots. Bournemouth University Buzz reported in November 2025 that the protests had reached the four month mark, having begun in mid July and continuing every Friday outside the front of the hotel[2]Press.
Adjacent reporting in Dorset View on the 22 August 2025 protests at the Britannia Hotel on Meyrick Road documented rival pro and counter rallies in the same Bournemouth seafront cluster, of which the Roundhouse forms the easternmost point[4]Press.
Cost analysis
No count of residents has been published for the Roundhouse, and a room count is not a headcount, so no nightly or annual cost is estimated here. The Sun, as reproduced by the Daily Sceptic, reported 102 rooms in August 2025, and GB News reported 304 rooms across the three Bournemouth hotels[1]. The Migration Observatory benchmark is £170 per person per night[5]. Asylum use is expected to end by October 2026. The May 2025 NAO contract review put the average per hotel run rate across the wider portfolio at about £5.84 million per year[6]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
UK asylum hotel avg
£170
NAO
Bournemouth budget hotel
£65
commercial
Hostel bed
£30
commercial
Timeline
Timeline
Earlier
Operates as a commercial Britannia chain hotel near the Bournemouth seafront
Aug 2025
Three Bournemouth hotels named in national press
The Sun (via the Daily Sceptic) names the Chine, the Roundhouse and the Britannia as taken over by the Home Office; GB News reports 304 rooms across three Bournemouth hotels.
Jul-Nov 2025
Weekly Bournemouth Patriots protests
Friday demonstrations outside the hotel reach the four month mark in November 2025.
13 Jul 2026
Closure expected by October 2026
Bournemouth One reports that the hotel is expected to stop housing asylum seekers by October 2026.
Sources
- Three Bournemouth hotels handed over to asylum seekers at height of summer holidays · GB News, Aug 2025
GB News (7 August 2025) reports that a total of 304 rooms across a trio of Bournemouth hotels have been taken over by Home Office officials, and gives a room count for one of them, a 79-room hotel. It does not name the Roundhouse, the Chine or the Britannia, and gives no room count for the Roundhouse; the names and the 102-room Roundhouse figure come from The Sun, reproduced by the Daily Sceptic.
- Immigration protests hit four month mark in Bournemouth · Bournemouth University Buzz, Nov 2025
Reports that weekly Bournemouth Patriots protests outside the Roundhouse Hotel reached the four month mark in November 2025, having begun in July 2025 against the use of the hotel as Home Office asylum accommodation.
- Hotels in Bournemouth: Fury over three hotels near beach used to house migrants · NationalWorld, Aug 2025
Names the 79-room Chine Hotel on Boscombe Spa Road as one of three Bournemouth hotels taken over by the Home Office for asylum accommodation and closed to the paying public for more than a year.
- Tensions rise as rival protests held outside Bournemouth hotel · Dorset View, Aug 2025
Rival pro- and counter-protests on 22 August 2025 outside the Britannia Hotel on Meyrick Road, Bournemouth, over its reported use as asylum accommodation. Article hedges direct confirmation, noting the outlet was unable to verify the hotel’s current use.
- 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.
- Roundhouse Hotel in Bournemouth expected to stop housing asylum seekers by October 2026 · Bournemouth One (Roy Martin), 13 Jul 2026
Reports that the Roundhouse Hotel in Bournemouth is expected to stop housing asylum seekers by October 2026, and that it is one of three Bournemouth hotels used for asylum accommodation and has not accepted paying guests during that period.
- Three top hotels yards from Bournemouth beach being used as migrant accommodation, sparking fury from tourists and locals · Daily Sceptic (reproducing The Sun), 9 Aug 2025
Reproduces a report from The Sun (published around 7 to 8 August 2025; the original could not be opened, so the wording is taken from this copy, which links to it) saying Home Office officials have taken over the 79-room Chine Hotel, the 102-room Roundhouse Hotel and the 123-room Britannia Hotel in Bournemouth. The room counts are The Sun's and are rooms, not residents; it gives no number of residents.