hotelHotel Impossible · Season 4, Episode 13 · Aired June 9, 2014
Glenwood Motor Inn
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
What happened after
Motel near Glenwood Hot Springs; directly fetched aggregator listing (hotels-rates.com) shows an active booking interface still under the 'Glenwood Motor Inn' name.
What happened on the show
Down in the Colorado resort town of Glenwood Springs, famous for its hot springs, the Glenwood Motor Inn was a motel positioned to catch the steady flow of visitors coming to soak and explore. The episode, Airing the Family Business, signaled the kind of family friction that plays out in front of guests and drags down an operation. A motel in a tourist town has a reliable draw next door, but a family at odds behind the front desk can undo the advantage. Melchiorri traced the guest journey from the door inward at the 6th Street property, pushing the family to settle their conflicts and run the motel as a business rather than a battleground. The takeaway echoed a lesson the series hammered for a family-run property in a good location: fix the people problems first, because no amount of fresh paint fixes a front desk at war with itself.
After the cameras left
The Glenwood Motor Inn appears to still be operating near the hot springs. As of our 2026 pass a directly checked aggregator listing showed an active booking interface under the Glenwood Motor Inn name, though some other directories label the same property as the Glenwood Springs Inn, suggesting both names circulate for one hotel. Because the directly fetched evidence favored the original name still being current, we did not mark it renamed. We log the status as confirmed operating with medium confidence, flagging the name variance. Last confirmed active in our 2026 check.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.