Six new hotels, with a total of nearly 300 bedrooms, have joined the Best Western consortium in recent months.

They include Best Western's first apartment hotel in Ealing, West London, and the 81-bedroom Best Western Dover Marina, which closed a year ago for a major renovation.

The new Best Western hotels are the Lancashire Manor Houte, Skelmersdale; Summerhill Hotel & Suites, Aberdeen; Maitrise Suites Apartment Hotel, Ealing, West London; Dover Marina Hotel & Spa, Dover; Cheltenham Regency Hotel, Cheltenham; and Royal Adelaide Hotel, Windsor.

Best Western currently has more than 270 three- and four-star hotels, with over 15,000 bedrooms in the UK.