What Sleep Tight Hotels does

Sleep Tight Hotels is a UK-based private regional hospitality group operating two full-service hotels in Northern England — Hotel Nineteen in Dodworth, Barnsley (a 38-room property) and The Wishing Well in Selby. The group is owned by Christian Spencer Leisure Ltd and operates through two wholly-owned subsidiaries, TFWB Limited and TWWSY Limited, providing a clean holding structure that consolidates back-office, procurement, and management overhead across the portfolio. The business was founded in 2004 and currently employs between 51 and 100 staff, spanning front-of-house, F&B, housekeeping, banqueting, and weddings operations.

The company's product is a multi-revenue-stream regional hotel offering rather than a single accommodation product. Beyond room revenue, Sleep Tight Hotels generates income from food and beverage (on-site restaurants and bars), conference and banqueting hire, weddings and private events, a dedicated business-accounts channel targeting weekday corporate travel, and a family-focused Kids Inn entertainment offering. The technology layer underpinning this is a stack of third-party specialist SaaS tools: Guestline as the property management and booking platform, Tablein for restaurant reservation management, Virtual Visitors UK for 360-degree property tours used as a direct-conversion asset, and the proprietary Tap2Eat mobile application for on-property F&B ordering. There is no evidence of proprietary AI, ML, or data-platform development.

Go-to-market is primarily regional, anchored in South Yorkshire and adjacent North England catchment areas, with distribution running through both the direct website and standard OTAs. Pricing is typical of UK mid-market full-service regional hotels, with revenue mix diversified enough to dampen occupancy volatility across week and season. Customer segments are fragmented across leisure travelers, family visitors using Kids Inn, corporate and SME bookers on the business-accounts program, and event clients for weddings and conferences, yielding a structurally low customer-concentration risk profile.

Name

Sleep Tight Hotels

Legal name

Christian Spencer Leisure Ltd

Website

https://sleeptighthotels.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Sleep Tight Hotels is a UK private regional hospitality group operating two full-service hotels in Northern England — Hotel Nineteen in Barnsley and The Wishing Well in Selby — serving leisure, family, corporate, and event/wedding customers with rooms, F&B, banqueting, and a kids entertainment offering.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hotels & Hospitality

NAICS

Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels (72111), Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels (721110), Traveler Accommodation (7211)

SIC

Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps & Other Lodging Places (7000), Hotels & Motels (7011)

akta.pro primary industry

Business & Corporate Full-Service Hotels (THAGAAAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Conference Retreat Hotels (THAGALAG)

Keywords

• Hotel accommodation
• Wedding venues
• Conference banqueting
• Hospitality services
• Restaurant dining

Headquarters

HQ city

Dodworth

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Hotel Accommodation: Revenue from room bookings at two UK hotel properties - Hotel Nineteen in Barnsley (38 rooms) and The Wishing Well in Selby. Includes standard rooms, family rooms, executive/bridal suites, and disabled access rooms. Check-in from 14:00, check-out by 11:00.
2. Food & Beverage: On-site restaurant and bar services at both locations serving freshly prepared meals, desserts, coffees, chilled lagers, beers, and wines from around the world. Breakfast services offered as add-on to room bookings or separately to public.
3. Conference & Banqueting: Venue hire and catering services for conferences, exhibitions, presentations, product launches, training, and events. Bluebell Suite at Barnsley accommodates up to 220 delegates with state-of-the-art facilities including air conditioning, stage, PA system, and IT equipment.
4. Wedding & Special Occasions: Full wedding reception services including civil ceremony hosting, tailor-made packages, three-course meals or buffets, and exclusive venue use. The Wishing Well offers smaller event space for up to 50 guests.
5. Business Account Program: Corporate credit account for business travel allowing booking, guaranteeing, and paying for rooms and food/drinks with 30-day interest-free credit facilities. No startup costs or admin charges. Monthly statements issued to accounts departments.
6. Kids Inn & Family Entertainment: Children's soft play area at The Wishing Well with Toddlers Mornings sessions (Tuesday and Thursday, 10am-12pm, £3 per child), birthday party packages from £10.95 per child with optional exclusivity add-on, and dedicated children's menu.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Sleep Tight Hotels is a UK-based hotel group operating two properties — Hotel Nineteen in Barnsley and The Wishing Well in Selby — under the parent entity Christian Spencer Leisure Ltd. The group provides accommodation, on-site dining, conference and banqueting facilities, wedding venues, and a children's play area, serving both leisure and event-driven guests in Northern England.

Product overview

Sleep Tight Hotels operates as a friendly UK hotel group comprising two branded properties: Hotel Nineteen in Barnsley and The Wishing Well in Selby. The offering is structured as a multi-property hospitality brand with integrated services including accommodation (38 rooms at Barnsley), on-site restaurants and bars (Nineteenth Bar & Kitchen, The Wishing Well Restaurant), event venues (Bluebell Suite accommodating up to 250 guests for weddings/conferences), and a dedicated children's facility (Kids Inn at Selby). Supporting services include the Tap2Eat mobile app for food ordering and payment, conference and banqueting facilities for corporate and private events, wedding services with full exclusivity, and a business account program for corporate travel. The group also offers specialized catering options including breakfast packages, event catering, and children's party packages.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Tap 2 Eat: Food and drink ordering and payment mobile application enabling customers to book tables, order, and pay from their table, with takeaway collections coming shortly.

Products and services

• Hotel Nineteen A hotel property in Barnsley offering accommodation, dining, and event-related services to leisure and business guests visiting the South Yorkshire region of England.
• The Wishing Well A hotel property in Selby offering accommodation, dining, conference and banqueting, weddings, and a children's play area to leisure travelers, families, and event customers in North Yorkshire.
• Wedding Venue Services Wedding reception and ceremony hosting services available at the group's hotel venues for couples planning weddings in Northern England.
• Conference and Banqueting Services Conference, meeting, and banqueting facilities and services for corporate and private events hosted at the hotel properties.
• On-Site Restaurant Dining Food and beverage dining service available at the hotel properties for both in-house guests and walk-in diners.
• Children's Play Area A children's play area provided at the hotel properties to accommodate families traveling with children.

Quantifiable outcome

• Conference capacity: up to 220 delegates
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• GuestlinecoreTechnology or IntegrationThird-party hotel booking technology provider enabling online room reservations for Sleep Tight Hotels through their website booking system. Integration allows real-time availability and booking confirmation for both Hotel Nineteen Barnsley and The Wishing Well Selby properties.
• TableincoreTechnology or IntegrationRestaurant table reservation platform used by both Hotel Nineteen (Nineteenth Bar & Kitchen) and The Wishing Well for managing dining bookings through online system.
• Christian Spencer Leisure LtdflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent company (incorporating TFWB Ltd, TWWSY Ltd, Sleep Tight Hotels, The Fairway, Bluebell Banqueting Suite and The Wishingwell) operating under Christian Spencer Leisure Ltd umbrella. The group manages both hotel properties with unified brand identity and operational systems including the Tap2Eat ordering app.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Best Western Great Britain: Best Western is a consortium of independently-owned UK regional hotels sharing a brand, booking platform, and loyalty programme — directly comparable as a collection of similar-sized independent UK regional properties.
• Britannia Hotels: Britannia Hotels operates a portfolio of budget-to-mid-scale regional UK hotels with on-site F&B and event spaces, comparable to Sleep Tight's full-service regional positioning though with broader geographic coverage.
• Village Hotels: Village Hotels operates 33 UK regional hotels with on-site restaurants, leisure facilities (pools/gyms), meeting rooms, and family-friendly amenities — a scaled UK regional full-service hotel brand with comparable integrated hospitality offerings.
• QHotels: QHotels operates 21 upscale UK regional hotels with strong conference/banqueting and wedding business, comparable in its integrated events-accommodation-dining model, though at the premium end of the regional segment.
• Cedar Court Hotels: Cedar Court Hotels operates four hotels across Yorkshire (Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield) — a directly comparable regional UK hotel group with similar conference, wedding, and F&B offerings targeting business and leisure travellers in Yorkshire.
• Peel Hotels: Peel Hotels is a small AIM-listed UK regional hotel operator with a portfolio of full-service hotels serving similar mid-market business and leisure segments, offering comparable conference and banqueting facilities.

Broad incumbents

• Marriott Hotels: Marriott operates a global portfolio of full-service hotels including regional UK locations, competing for the corporate conference and wedding business that Sleep Tight Hotels targets with its Bluebell Suite.
• Holiday Inn (IHG): Holiday Inn is a global full-service midscale hotel brand competing for the same corporate conference and leisure business traveller segments as Sleep Tight Hotels, with broader national marketing and distribution scale.
• Premier Inn (Whitbread): Premier Inn is the UK's largest hotel chain (~800+ hotels) and the dominant budget/limited-service competitor across Yorkshire, setting the price benchmark for room rates and competing aggressively for corporate travel accounts.
• Travelodge UK: Travelodge operates 600+ budget hotels across the UK, directly competing on price for leisure and business travellers in the Yorkshire region where Sleep Tight Hotels is positioned at the value end of the market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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