hotelHotel Impossible · Season 2, Episode 10 · Aired March 4, 2013
Gardenia Resort
Negril, Jamaica
It is still up and running.
What happened after
73-room beachfront resort across from Seven Mile Beach; bookable listing on TripAdvisor (newly listed, no reviews yet) plus KAYAK/Hostelworld/negril-jm.com aggregator listings.
What happened on the show
Melchiorri's Jamaican stop put him across the road from one of the Caribbean's most famous stretches of sand, Negril's Seven Mile Beach, at a 73-room resort with a big location and, in the show's framing, an operation not making the most of it. Being near-but-not-on the beach is a marketing problem as much as a physical one, and the resort needed a reason for travelers to choose it over the properties directly on the sand. Anthony went through the property one room at a time, then pushed ownership to sell the Seven Mile Beach access and the value of an across-the-street rate as a genuine package rather than a compromise. His counsel followed the show's pattern in a resort setting: know the guest, deliver a clean and confident stay, and turn a good-but-not-perfect location into a deliberate choice.
After the cameras left
The Gardenia is still trading on its Negril location. As of our 2026 verification the beachfront resort, now marketed as The Gardenia Resort Hotel in a minor name-suffix variant on the same property, carries a bookable listing on a major travel platform along with several aggregator listings tied to its Norman Manley Beach Boulevard address across from Seven Mile Beach. The freshly created review profile shows a property newly organizing its online presence rather than one winding down. Confirmed operating as of 2026.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.