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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Hotel Inspector Season 1 Episode 1 - Nandos/Forget-Me-Not Guest House, Stratford
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    #1 - Nandos/Forget-Me-Not Guest House, Stratford

    S1:E1

    Hotelier Ruth Watson helps Kate and John, owners of a Stratford-upon-Avon B&B that is the only one on its street without an RAC diamond rating. Sending them off to observe a four-star rival in town, the hospitality guru makes a list of the changes she believes necessary - but the couple do not seem keen to adopt them

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  2. The Hotel Inspector Season 1 Episode 2 - Hanmer Arms, Wrexham County Borough
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    #2 - Hanmer Arms, Wrexham County Borough

    S1:E2

    Ruth Watson meets Keith and Val Morris, who three and a half years ago bought the Hanmer Arms, a classy 23-bed hotel in Wrexham County Borough. Family members have invested £1 million of their money into the struggling business, and are eager to see a return.

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  3. The Hotel Inspector Season 1 Episode 3 - Worlington Hall Hotel, Suffolk
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    #3 - Worlington Hall Hotel, Suffolk

    S1:E3

    Ruth Watson helps sisters Sharon and Joy with their struggling country house hotel in Worlington, Suffolk. While the Grade-II listed building is in good repair, the operating systems are chaotic and the menu too extensive for the solitary chef to handle. Ruth organises a revamp of the dated-looking function room - prompting the delighted owners to plan a wedding fair in their new-look space.

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  4. The Hotel Inspector Season 2 Episode 2 - Langtry Manor Hotel
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    #4 - Langtry Manor Hotel

    S2:E2

    Ruth Watson visits Langtry Manor Hotel in Bournemouth, which was built in 1877 for King Edward VII in honour of his mistress Lillie Langtry, and later turned into a hotel. Ruth immediately cites the building's painted brickwork as off-putting, while outdated decor and imprudent budgeting add to her horror, as she points out why the business is squandering potential profits.

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  5. The Hotel Inspector Season 2 Episode 3 - Key West Hotel
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    #5 - Key West Hotel

    S2:E3

    Ruth Watson travels to Newquay in Cornwall in a bid to improve the Key West Hotel, owned by Brian and Gill Scott, who opened the establishment as part of their retirement plans. However, it is constantly overrun with stag and hen parties that leave a path of destruction in their wake, and the couple are reaching the end of their tether.

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  6. The Hotel Inspector Season 2 Episode 4 - Sparkles Hotel
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    #6 - Sparkles Hotel

    S2:E4

    Ruth Watson visits Sparkles, a child-friendly hotel in Blackpool suffering from financial problems due to a severe lack of guests. Owner Sue spent £1 million turning the former terraced house into a themed B&B, but unless she is prepared to tone down the decor and cut her prices - something she seems reluctant to do - Ruth predicts she is heading for disaster.

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  7. The Hotel Inspector Season 2 Episode 5 - Blossoms Guest House
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    #7 - Blossoms Guest House

    S2:E5

    Ruth Watson is faced with her toughest challenge yet when she visits 15-bedroom Georgian guest house Blossoms in the centre of York. The owner's cost-cutting has led to complaints, the staff are in need of intense customer service training, and the decor is outdated. The hospitality guru believes she can turn the business around - but only if the hotelier loosens the purse strings.

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  8. The Hotel Inspector Season 2 Episode 6 - Tasburgh House Hotel
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    #8 - Tasburgh House Hotel

    S2:E6

    Ruth Watson visits the award-winning Tasburgh Hotel in Bath in a bid to discover why the establishment has a distinct lack of guests. She meets the B&B's owner Sue, and tries to convince her that no amount of classy decor can make up for the cramped bedrooms full of soft toys, dingy bathrooms, poor presentation and a steep starting price of £110 per night.

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  9. The Hotel Inspector Season 2 Episode 7 - Hanmer Arms Revisited
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    #9 - Hanmer Arms Revisited

    S2:E7

    Ruth Watson travels to the Hanmer Arms on the border of England and Wales to find out if owners Keith and Val Morris have listened to the advice she gave them in the previous series. During her first visit, disorganised staffing, a lack of commitment and losses of £250,000 a year made turning the establishment into a success a huge job.

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  10. The Hotel Inspector Season 2 Episode 8 - Worlington Hall Hotel Revisited
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    #10 - Worlington Hall Hotel Revisited

    S2:E8

    Ruth Watson revisits Worlington Hall in the Suffolk countryside to see if owners Joy and Sharon have taken her advice on how to save their failing business. On her first trip, she pinpointed an unwelcoming reception, a messy booking system, a confusing food policy and lack of publicity as the main problems impeding its success.

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  11. The Hotel Inspector Season 3 Episode 1 - Grand Hotel, Hastings
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    #11 - Grand Hotel, Hastings

    S3:E1

    Ruth heads to the East Sussex coast to tackle a hotel whose owner is actively opposed to her ideas before he has even met her. Ruth is in Hastings to visit the Grand Hotel, a seafront establishment with 17 rooms that is rapidly losing business to the new budget hotels elsewhere in the town. Owner Peter Mann, who has been running the hotel for 18 years, is keen to reverse his fortunes, but is wary of Ruth’s infamous no-nonsense approach even before her arrival. “If she’s going to come here a cross between Darth Vader, Genghis Khan and Gordon Ramsay, then that’s not going to work at all,” he warns. Unfortunately for Peter, his worst fears are confirmed when he meets Ruth. She is deeply unimpressed by his hotel the moment she sets eyes on it.

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  12. The Hotel Inspector Season 3 Episode 2 - Beech House Hotel, Reading
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    #12 - Beech House Hotel, Reading

    S3:E2

    Ruth attempts to change the fortunes of a hotel in Reading, whose owner is resistant to the idea of altering his prices. Beech House is a 15-bedroom hotel in Reading, owned by businessman Michael Bissell. Michael converted the hotel from a care home four years ago and invested around half a million pounds in the facilities, but so far he has failed to attract guests in Reading’s competitive market. The hotel has lost huge amounts of money and Michael has even had to cash in his pension to keep it afloat. “Because of the losses that I’ve made, it’s been me paying the guests to stay here,” he says. Months away from bankruptcy, he has called in Ruth Watson to help avert disaster.

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  13. The Hotel Inspector Season 3 Episode 3 - Safari Hotel, Bournemouth
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    #13 - Safari Hotel, Bournemouth

    S3:E3

    Ruth meets Vincent and Lidy Van Nuyk, the Dutch owners of the 14-bedroom Safari hotel in Bournemouth. Drowning in debt and unable to carry out vital renovations on the hotel, Vincent and Lidy desperately need help if they are to turn their fortunes around. Vincent and Lidy took on the Safari after 13 years spent running a successful restaurant in Ireland took their toll on Vincent’s health. However, their hopes of a quiet life are unfulfilled: the hotel has failed to turn a profit and they have been driven to the brink of bankruptcy. The lack of money is reflected in the shabbiness of the hotel, which is in dire need of renovation. “We feel defeated,” sighs Lidy. “We want to improve, but we have no cash for it.” To save money, Lidy and Vincent do all the work themselves –including cleaning the 14 bedrooms and doing all the cooking –and are forced to live in one room. Overwhelmed, they have no idea how to pull themselves out of this hole and need someone to show them how to improve things.

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  14. The Hotel Inspector Season 3 Episode 4 - Butley Priory, Suffolk
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    #14 - Butley Priory, Suffolk

    S3:E4

    Tonight, Ruth visits a bed and breakfast establishment housed in a beautiful medieval priory. The owner is reluctant to share her home with guests, but needs to boost her income to avoid losing the property altogether. Can Ruth persuade her to focus the business on weddings and fashion shoots? Butley Priory is a six-bedroom B in a converted 14th-century priory, just a stone’s throw from Ruth’s own hotel in Suffolk. The owner is musician and former model Frances Cavendish, who opened her home to paying guests to make ends meets after her divorce eight years ago. Unfortunately, the rooms often stand empty and Frances is on the brink of selling up. “If we don’t get more guests through the door I’m going to have to call it a day,” she tells Ruth.

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  15. The Hotel Inspector Season 3 Episode 5 - Weyanoke, Eastbourne
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    #15 - Weyanoke, Eastbourne

    S3:E5

    Renowned hotelier, restaurateur and author Ruth Watson continues her mission to reverse Britain’s reputation for poorly run hotels, guesthouses and B In tonight’s instalment, Ruth tackles the oddly named Weyanoke – a large hotel on the Eastbourne coast currently suffering from something of an identity crisis. Three years ago, after a stint running a small B, Mark and Heidi Cowderoy bought the Weyanoke – a beautiful, 33-bedroom Victorian hotel situated on the Eastbourne seafront. In the past, the hotel has catered mainly for coach parties of pensioners paying as little as £20 for a room, but this business is quickly dying out. Heidi and Mark decided to refurbish the hotel to take it upmarket, but their spending has meant that they have failed to make any profit since the beginning of their venture. Since buying the hotel, the couple have spent in excess of £1 million on what Mark calls a “Victorian money pit”. Now deep in debt, Mark and Heidi are in dire need of Ruth’s help before their business collapses.

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  16. The Hotel Inspector Season 3 Episode 6 - St Alfeges B&B, Greenwich
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    #16 - St Alfeges B&B, Greenwich

    S3:E6

    In tonight’s instalment, Ruth visits the heart of Greenwich, South-East London, to meet actor hotelier Robert Gray and assess his three-bedroom B Actor Robert Gray turned his home into St Alfeges B five years ago to maintain the cashflow between acting jobs. A former antiques dealer, he has filled his house with unusual art and objects and decorated with flair and personality – but he is the first to admit that the ‘shabby-chic’ look is starting to look just “shabby”. “I think we need a facelift,” he confesses.

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  17. The Hotel Inspector Season 3 Episode 7 - Haven Hotel, Great Yarmouth
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    #17 - Haven Hotel, Great Yarmouth

    S3:E7

    Ruth comes to the aid of a pair of novice hoteliers in Great Yarmouth, who desperately need a crash course in the hotel business if their guesthouse is to stay open. To see how a hotel should be run, they visit a five-star hotel in their town, before Ruth takes them to her own establishment in Orford.

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  18. The Hotel Inspector Season 3 Episode 8 - Woodlands Lodge Hotel, New Forest
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    #18 - Woodlands Lodge Hotel, New Forest

    S3:E8

    Ruth heads to the Woodlands Lodge, a 16-bedroom country hotel set deep in the heart of the New Forest. The Woodlands' restaurant has recently lost its coveted AA rosette and a new hotel in the area looks set to ruin the business. Can Ruth help transform the hotel's faded decor and put owners David and Jenny Norbury back on track?

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  19. The Hotel Inspector Season 3 Episode 9 - Key West Guest House, Newquay (Revisited)
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    #19 - Key West Guest House, Newquay (Revisited)

    S3:E9

    Ruth finds out if Brian and Gill Scott, owners of the Key West hotel in Newquay, took her advice when she visited them a year previously.

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  20. The Hotel Inspector Season 3 Episode 10 - Tasburgh House Hotel, Bath (Revisited)
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    #20 - Tasburgh House Hotel, Bath (Revisited)

    S3:E10

    Ruth returns to the Tasburgh House hotel near Bath to see if owner Sue Keeling - a retired air hostess - has managed to turn her fortunes around. Will the business be flying high, or has it been grounded?

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  21. The Hotel Inspector Season 4 Episode 1 - Brecon Castle
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    #21 - Brecon Castle

    S4:E1

    For her first assignment, Alex faces the tall order of rescuing a massive 43-bedroom hotel in Wales that has seen better days. Reputedly the oldest hotel in Wales, the Castle of Brecon was once a glamorous destination for the rich and famous. Neglected for decades, it is now owned by Leon Ricci and his Russian wife, Natasha. With no previous experience in the industry, the couple admit they bought the hotel on a whim - and were even advised by an agent to steer clear of it. "He said, 'No, don't buy it - it's a well-known white elephant in the industry'," Leon recalls.

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  22. The Hotel Inspector Season 4 Episode 2 - The Lenchford Inn
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    #22 - The Lenchford Inn

    S4:E2

    This week, Alex heads to an attractive pub hotel on the banks of the River Severn in Worcestershire. The views may be picturesque but this establishment is far from tranquil. The Lenchford Inn is managed by two couples on the brink of a breakdown. Dave and Marie, along with her brother Ian and his wife Wendy, bought the inn thinking it would be a ticket to early retirement. But the combination of four floods in two years and the owners’ inexperience has left their hopes in tatters. The nine bedrooms and 80-seat restaurant are as empty as their bank accounts and, with a ten-year age difference between the two couples, they cannot see eye-to-eye on anything.

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  23. The Hotel Inspector Season 4 Episode 3 - Jessop House Hotel
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    #23 - Jessop House Hotel

    S4:E3

    Alex heads to historic Tewkesbury to inspect the eight-bedroom Jessop House Hotel, located just yards from the town's famous abbey. "It looks like a very pretty town," Alex says. "According to their website, I’m staying at an equally pretty boutique townhouse hotel. Can't imagine what's going wrong there." It soon becomes apparent that the Jessop's problems are twofold, as Alex discovers a business and a relationship in crisis.

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  24. The Hotel Inspector Season 4 Episode 4 - West Usk
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    #24 - West Usk

    S4:E4

    Alex visits the West Usk Lighthouse, a unique four-bedroom establishment on the edge of the Bristol Channel. Owners Frank and Danielle bought the lighthouse after seeing an advert in Exchange & Mart. Twenty years later, despite a base of loyal repeat customers, the business is barely keeping its head above water. “If we don’t get more money, a better turnover, a healthy profit, we will not survive,” says Frank. “I want to stay here and fight, if you like, for the survival of the lighthouse and my business.”

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  25. The Hotel Inspector Season 4 Episode 5 - Number Nine
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    #25 - Number Nine

    S4:E5

    Alex heads to Torquay, which was once home to Britain’s most notorious fictional hotel. The 12-room guesthouse Number Nine is no Fawlty Towers, but it is certainly faulty – losing both guests and money. Owner Rachel Roffe admits she is out of her depth. “A week after I moved here, I remember sitting in the garden, and I just burst into tears and thought, ‘Oh my God, what have I done?’” she recalls.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Nandos/Forget-Me-Not Guest House, Stratford" is the worst rated episode of "The Hotel Inspector". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/29/2005. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Hanmer Arms, Wrexham County Borough".