Pavilion Lodge
| Related names: | Pavilion Snack Cafe |
| Used by: | Pavilion |
| Introduced: | 1992 |
| Removed: | 1995 |
| Predecessors: | Top Rank Motor Lodge |
| Successors: | Granada Lodge |
| See also: | Granada Lodge |
Pavilion Lodge was the short-lived branding applied to the roadside lodges at motorway service areas managed by Pavilion. These motorway service areas were inherited from Top Rank, where the hotels had been branded 'Top Rank Motor Lodge', and were soon sold to Granada, where they would become Granada Lodge, although not for very long.
Despite the different motorway hotel brands that were flying around at the time, most of them looked the same, and these days the average road user would struggle to tell which one started out as what.
Paviliion Lodge was operated in partnership with a chain of "partner hotels", which were more roadside lodges which each had individual branding, but were advertised alongside the Pavilion Lodges.
Locations
Pavilion could be found at the following service areas:
- Cardiff West (M4)
- Hilton Park (M6)
- Lancaster (M6)
- Medway (M2)
- Scotch Corner (A1/A66)
- Severn View (M4)
- Swansea (M4)
The Pavilion Lodge "partner hotels" were:
- Chimneys Motor Inn (A21)
- Clifton Hotel Blackpool
- The European Inn (A52)
- The Lodge (A34)
- Northop Hall Auto Lodge (A55)
- Redwings Lodge (A1)
- Savoy Hotel Blackpool
- Toll Bar Lodge (A1)