- 8.9/1010 votesLoading...
#1 - Swamped: Roaring Gap, NC
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 5/19/2014
Anthony is in North Carolina to help the Peros family keep the High Meadows Inn & Nikola's Restaurant alive. The co-owner/father is a hopeless optimist, but Anthony gives him a needed reality check before he costs them everything.
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- 8.7/1012 votesLoading...
#2 - The Big Sleasy: New Orleans, LA
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/2015
Anthony visits a boutique hotel in historic and tourist heavy New Orleans, and finds mistreated employees and ridiculous cost-cutting policies. Can Anthony urge a stubborn owner to sell the hotel to her sons for a fresh start?
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- 8.7/108 votesLoading...
#3 - Waterpark Bug-Out: Sandusky, OH
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 11/13/2017
Anthony Melchiorri visits Ohio to help a dilapidated indoor waterpark and hotel with the worst bedbug infestation he’s ever seen.
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- 8.6/1014 votesLoading...
#4 - The Hotel Leger: Mokelumne Hill, CA
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/7/2013
Anthony is heading for the Hotel Leger in Calaveras County, CA, near the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Mokelumne Hill. The hotel has thirteen unique guest rooms, a saloon, a billiards room, and a pool. Ashley Canty purchased the hotel in 2004 and is trying to return it to its former glory as one of the oldest hotels in the area and the heart of the town.
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- 8.6/1014 votesLoading...
#5 - Alaskan Heavyweights: Juneau, AK
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/27/2014
Anthony Melchiorri heads to Juneau, AK, to help a 100-yr-old hotel and bar. With a belligerent bar manager, feuding family owners, no security, a trespassing bear and a crushed designer, can he help keep this historic icon afloat?
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- 8.5/108 votesLoading...
#6 - Underwear, Under Where?: Gatlinburg, TN
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 11/17/2015
At the 120-room Brookside Resort in Gatlinburg, TN, Anthony has to deal with a manager who doesn't like to confront guests, overworked housekeepers, and filthy rooms.
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- 8.4/1012 votesLoading...
#7 - Fiddler's Inn: Nashville, TN
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/11/2012
A Nashville hotel has been on the rocks for three years despite the fact it's across the street from the Grand Ole Opry. The owner claims he's been hit by the recession, but the real problems are a gift shop that takes up the entire lobby, filthy rooms, and a lack of identity, and Anthony comes in to make some changes.
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- 8.4/1012 votesLoading...
#8 - Gardenia Resort: Negril, Jamaica
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/4/2013
Anthony travels to the 75-room Gardenia Resort in Jamaica and finds himself up against dirty rooms and a general manager who isn't aggressive enough to get the job done.
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- 8.4/1011 votesLoading...
#9 - Rotting Woodstock: Woodstock, NY
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/2014
Anthony visits the cool and historic Woodstock, NY to get the struggling 35-room Woodstock Lodge back on its feet. But the owner's stubbornness and anger could force Anthony to leave before they can render any help at all.
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- 8.3/1011 votesLoading...
#10 - Southern Oaks Inn: Branson, MO
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/4/2012
In Branson, MO, the Southern Oaks Hotel stands all but deserted due to bad marketing. Anthony must deal with slovenly housekeepers, a lobby filled with flyers, and a family business where the two men and two women can’t communicate.
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- 8.3/1011 votesLoading...
#11 - Alpenhof Lodge: Mammoth Lakes, CA
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/11/2013
Anthony visits a picture-perfect ski lodge that he soon realizes has family management issues.
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- 8.3/109 votesLoading...
#12 - Stormy Wedding: Hood River, OR
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 6/2/2014
Anthony is in beautiful Hood River, OR to help the Vagabond Lodge. Anthony transforms this picturesque property into a profitable event space, but can they pull off a wedding in just 48 hours, despite the looming storm clouds?
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- 8.2/1013 votesLoading...
#13 - Newport Inn: Newport, RI
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/25/2012
Anthony takes on a hotel whose clueless owner is more interested in buying up-to-date gym equipment then keeping his hotel in shape and his pool filled with water.
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- 8.2/108 votesLoading...
#14 - The Curve: Palm Springs, CA
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/11/2013
Anthony is called in to convert a former economy motel into a boutique hotel, but discovers that the rooms are filthy and the lobby is a mess.
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- 8.2/1014 votesLoading...
#15 - Bromley Sun Lodge: Peru, VT
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/18/2013
Anthony is called in to help the Bromley Sun Lodge, which suffers from poor maintenance and owners who are in over their heads after a fire almost destroyed the hotel.
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- 8.2/109 votesLoading...
#16 - Shotgun Start: Water Gap, PA
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 9/9/2013
Anthony arrives at the Water Gap Country Club in Pennsylvania, which features a PGA golf course. But with new owners and a surprise wedding with enraged parents of the groom, can Anthony salvage the wedding along with the hotel?
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- 8.2/1016 votesLoading...
#17 - Not ANice Hotel: Orlando, FL
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 9/15/2015
Anthony visits Orlando, FL, where he discovers that the 350-room ANice Inn & Suites is anything but nice. After finding killer bees, bedbugs, mold & feral cats, can Anthony force an owner to invest in fixing all the issues?
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- 8.2/108 votesLoading...
#18 - Boss's Time Out: Bossier City, LA
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 5/23/2016
Anthony visits Bossier City, Louisiana, to help hotel staff with abusive owners.
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- 8.2/107 votesLoading...
#19 - Chaos on the Cape: Cape Cod, MA
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 10/30/2017
Anthony Melchiorri visits a motel in a beach town on Cape Cod where the employees are passionate about the property but the uninterested owner is looking to sell. With the help of the motel's general and assistant managers, Anthony works to convince the owner to take down the ominious For Sale sign and re-invest in his property.
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- 8.1/109 votesLoading...
#20 - Swinging for the Fences: State College, PA
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/2014
Anthony is in crisis mode when he finds out the 85-room Autoport Motel in State College, PA is in foreclosure. With the hotel's swinging reputation and lack of management, can he convince the bank the Autoport is worth saving?
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- 8.0/1014 votesLoading...
#21 - Dude Rancher Lodge: Billings, MT
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/9/2012
In downtown Billings, MT, the Dude Rancher Lodge has a one-star rating, no business, and a decor that alternates between historical and present-day.
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- 8.0/1014 votesLoading...
#22 - Glacier Bear Lodge: Yakutat, AK
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/14/2013
Anthony travels to Alaska to bail out a fisherman's lodge that stinks of fish and has rotting wood floors and ceilings.
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- 8.0/109 votesLoading...
#23 - Hollywood Nightmare: Hollywood, CA
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/24/2014
Anthony heads to Hollywood, CA to rehab the Liberty Hotel. With missing fire alarms, used syringes and plumbing & electrical issues, can Anthony save the hotel before the owners' potential happy ending becomes a tragedy?
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- 8.0/1013 votesLoading...
#24 - Crash Course in Daytona: Daytona Beach, FL
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/2014
Anthony is in Daytona Beach, FL, to save the historic 50-room Streamline Hotel. Can he leverage its NASCAR connection, steer the owner in a new direction and derail an inexperienced, hothead GM before the hotel crashes and burns?
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- 8.0/1013 votesLoading...
#25 - To Be or Not To Be: Cedar City, UT
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 9/22/2015
Anthony travels to Cedar City, UT, to help the owners of the Stratford Court Hotel. Upon arrival, he discovers that they are already busy renovating the lobby... but haven't closed the hotel.
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The Best Episodes of Hotel Impossible
Every episode of Hotel Impossible ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Hotel Impossible!
Hotel Impossible is a reality television program from Travel Channel in which struggling hotels receive an extensive makeover by veteran hotel operator Anthony Melchiorri and...
Genre:Reality
Network:Travel Channel
Best Episodes Summary
"Swamped: Roaring Gap, NC" is the best rated episode of "Hotel Impossible". It scored 8.9/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/19/2014. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Big Sleasy: New Orleans, LA".