hotelHotel Impossible · Season 8, Episode 4 · Aired November 14, 2016
Hooligan's Lodge
Soldotna, Alaska
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
What happened after
Now marketed as 'Hooligans Lodging & Saloon' / 'Hooligans Fishing Lodge'; actively listed across OTAs.
What happened on the show
On Alaska's Kenai Peninsula in Soldotna, prime salmon-fishing country, Melchiorri confronted an owner at Hooligan's Lodge who seemed strangely unconcerned about serious red flags: the fire department had issued multiple citations, and the property had lost its liquor license. The episode, Alarmed in Alaska, played on both the literal fire-safety alarms and the owner's alarming complacency. A fishing lodge with a saloon depends on both its liquor business and basic safety compliance, so lost licenses and unaddressed fire citations threaten the whole operation. Anthony worked the rooms and the operation while pressing the owner to take the citations and the license loss seriously and to run the lodge responsibly. His take carried the verdict the show reached again and again for an owner in denial: an operator who shrugs off fire-safety violations and a revoked liquor license is gambling with the business, and the first fix is getting them to care about the fundamentals.
After the cameras left
Hooligan's is still operating on the Kenai Peninsula. As of our 2026 verification the property, now marketed as Hooligans Lodging and Saloon and also referenced as a fishing lodge, is actively listed across booking platforms at 44715 Sterling Highway in Soldotna. Whether the fire citations and liquor-license problems were fully resolved is not documented in our sourcing, but the lodge and its saloon have stayed in business more than a decade after the show. With aggregator-level sourcing, we log the status as confirmed operating with medium confidence. Confirmed operating as of 2026.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.