hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 10, Episode 4 · Aired February 27, 2014
Alexandra Hotel
Llandudno, Wales
Same spot, new identity after the show. It now goes by The New Alexandra Hotel.
What happened after
Now trades as 'The New Alexandra Hotel'; family & pet-friendly, town-centre location with 'Funky's Bar & Grill'.
What happened on the show
Church minister John Humberstone had run the Alexandra Hotel, a Grade II listed property in Llandudno, for a couple of years, welcoming guests when Alex Polizzi arrived in series 10, and the business was in deep trouble. The episode summary is brief on the specifics, but the frame is clear: a historic Welsh seaside hotel run by an owner whose background was in ministry rather than hospitality, struggling to make the property pay. Polizzi's task was to bring commercial rigour to a well-meaning but inexperienced operator, and to help a listed building in a crowded resort town compete. The detail of the faults and remedies is not fully preserved beyond that outline. Minister John Humberstone's struggling listed hotel aired in February 2014 before its continuation under a lightly refreshed name.
After the cameras left
The Alexandra survives, now trading as The New Alexandra Hotel, a family and pet-friendly, town-centre property with a Funky's Bar and Grill on Clonmel Street in Llandudno. Booking.com shows updated 2026 pricing and it holds a four out of five and a solid mid-table specialty-lodging ranking on TripAdvisor. The official site returned an error on direct fetch, so the evidence leans on aggregators, holding the renamed status at medium confidence. The struggling listed hotel Polizzi found under a minister's stewardship appears to have carried on under a lightly refreshed name.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.