hotelHotel Impossible · Season 6, Episode 4 · Aired September 22, 2015
Stratford Court Hotel
Cedar City, Utah
Open. The rescue stuck and it continues to operate.
What happened after
Downtown hotel near Utah Shakespearean Festival/Southern Utah University; active listings across multiple OTAs with 2026 pricing.
What happened on the show
In Cedar City, Utah, home of the Utah Shakespeare Festival and Southern Utah University, the Stratford Court presented Melchiorri with an unusual scene on arrival: the owners were already tearing into a lobby renovation, only they had not bothered to close the hotel while they did it. The episode, To Be or Not To Be, leaned into the Shakespearean setting and the owners' half-thought-out approach to fixing their own property. Renovating around paying guests without a plan is a recipe for chaos, and Anthony's task was to bring order and strategy to an operation that was improvising its way through a rebuild. He held the stay up against its own billing, prodding ownership to sequence the work sensibly and to run the hotel to a standard worthy of the festival crowds and university visitors it depended on. The fix was as much about disciplined project management as design.
After the cameras left
The Stratford Court is still hosting Cedar City's festival and university visitors. As of our 2026 pass the downtown hotel near the Utah Shakespeare Festival and Southern Utah University is open, actively listed across multiple booking platforms with current pricing. No closure signal surfaced, so we log the status as confirmed operating with medium confidence on listing-level sourcing. The chaotic mid-renovation property the episode caught in the act has stayed in business more than a decade on. Last confirmed active in our 2026 check.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.