Taxpayer-Funded Grade II Listed Hotel Hosts Asylum Seekers with Arcade Rooms and Pool Tables

ASYLUM seekers are living in a plush hotel filled with arcade games and pool tables funded by the taxpayer, it has been revealed.

Footage inside the Grade II listed Rowton Hotel in shows , air and retro machines in one of the communal areas.

The games room was filled with retro machines such as Pac Man Credit: Instagram/truthhurts101uk Footage also revealed a pool and air hockey table in the room Credit: Instagram/truthhurts101uk

The facilities in the game room include arcade games such as Pac Man, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.

Roughly 300 male migrants are currently being housed at the Victorian hotel, it is believed.

And after gaining access to the leisure area, the camera man jokes the hotel “has it all” as he pans around to show the packed-out space.

While being ushered away by a security officer, he says: “Look at the games they’ve got in here.

“There’s Pac Man… let me have a go on Mortal Kombat… A Mortal Kombat machine. Look how retro this is.

“Look at this one, Street Fighter. These ain’t cheap are they? Inside we’ve got darts, we’ve got . We’ve got it all.”

Retro machines such as Pac Man and Mortal Kombat can retail for thousands of pounds online.

Meanwhile, mid-range air hockey and pool tables are usually worth hundreds of pounds.

The government has long faced scrutiny over the use of hotels to house migrants Credit: Instagram/truthhurts101uk Retro machines can retails for thousands of pounds online Credit: Instagram/truthhurts101uk

The Sun understands the games were already in the hotel when the took it over.

The hotel previously described itself as one of the “most beautiful wedding venues” in the area.

Formerly know as the Paragon Hotel, it could host more than 500 guests, with four “elegant” function rooms.

Room rates were roughly £70 per night at the three-star hotel, before the owners secured a “lucrative government contract” in 2021.

We recently revealed than 37,000 asylum seekers have been in taxpayer-funded accommodation for more than a year.

Figures revealed a 40 per cent surge in the past 18 months, with the number in asylum accommodation now exceeding 107,000.

More than 30,000 are , a rise since Labour’s July 2024 election win.

And just six per cent of small boat arrivals have been returned in that time.

The Government has long faced scrutiny over the use of the , with fury over the plush facilities at the cost of the taxpayer.

Angry locals have resorted to demonstrating outside some of the venues, which cost roughly £5.7million each day, according to government data.

Shadow Home Secretary said the rising numbers showed Labour lacked the “backbone to deport”.

A spokesperson for the Home Office said: “This government is removing the incentives drawing illegal migrants to Britain and ramping up removals of those with no right to be here.

“That is why we are closing every asylum hotel and moving asylum seekers into basic accommodation including ex-military sites.

“Numbers in asylum hotels have dropped by nearly 20% over the past year and by 45% since the peak under the previous government, driving down support costs by almost £1 billion.”