hotelHotel Impossible · Season 1, Episode 12 · Aired July 23, 2012
Vermont Inn
Mendon, Vermont
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
What happened after
Family-run B&B in the Green Mountains; official site live and functional with active Facebook page (Feb 2026 posts).
What happened on the show
Tucked into the Green Mountains near Killington, the Vermont Inn was a family-run bed and breakfast trading on the kind of rural New England charm that fills rooms in leaf season and empties them the rest of the year. Melchiorri's interest was in the operation behind the postcard, whether a small family business could run a seasonal country inn as a going concern rather than a labor of love that never quite paid. He looked at the rooms, the hospitality, and the way the inn marketed its mountain setting, then pushed the owners to think like operators, smoothing out the peaks and troughs of a seasonal trade and giving guests a concrete reason to choose their house over the region's many alternatives. The counsel was gentle by the show's standards but pointed in the same direction as every episode: run the charm as a business.
After the cameras left
The Vermont Inn is alive and well. As of our 2026 check the family-run bed and breakfast at 78 Cream Hill Road in Mendon is open, with a live and functional official site and an active Facebook presence posting into early 2026, plus a strong traveler-review average across several hundred entries spanning the most recent seasons. For a small seasonal country inn, that combination of a working site, current social activity, and steady reviews is the profile of a healthy business. Confirmed operating as of 2026.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.