hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 17, Episode 3 · Aired June 30, 2022
Caer Beris Manor
Wales
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
What happened after
21-22 room country manor hotel, operated by GR Hotels ('Caer Beris Manor by Group Retreats'); active on official site and major platforms.
What happened on the show
The series 17 note on Caer Beris Manor records Alex Polizzi visiting a country manor hotel run by Omar, a former estate agent, and his wife. An owner whose background lay in property rather than hospitality was a familiar setup for the show, where the inspector supplies the trade knowledge a career-changer lacks. A country manor of around twenty-one bedrooms in mid-Wales, it had the grandeur but needed the commercial handling. The episode summary is brief on the specific faults, so the honest frame is verifiable rather than reconstructed: a struggling Welsh manor hotel, run by a former estate agent new to the trade, that called in the inspector during her seventeenth series in 2022, with the fuller measure best read from where it later stood.
After the cameras left
Caer Beris Manor is open and trading, a twenty-one to twenty-two room country manor hotel at Builth Wells in Powys, now operated by GR Hotels as Caer Beris Manor by Group Retreats. The name is unchanged, with only an operator branding added, so it is not treated as a rename. Its official site and the major platforms are active, and it tops the hotel listings for Builth Wells on TripAdvisor with a four out of five across more than a thousand reviews, so the open status sits at high confidence. The manor Omar and his wife ran appears to have passed to a group operator and kept trading strongly.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.