The Hotel Inspector · S1 E1
Forget-Me-Not Guest House
Stratford-upon-Avon, England
The trail goes cold here; we could not verify whether it is still open. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2005.
The short answer
The trail goes cold here; we could not verify whether it is still open. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2005.
What happened on the show
Ruth Watson opened the series opposite Kate and John, a married couple who had sold the family home and poured every penny of their savings into a six-bedroom guest house on a smart Stratford-upon-Avon street, trading as Nando's. They worked the place around the clock and still could not pull ahead. Theirs was the only bed and breakfast on the road without an RAC diamond rating, and rated rivals were quietly taking the trade. Watson, in the pre-Polizzi era of the show, dealt in plain talk rather than sympathy, and she made the couple stare at the gap between how hard they grafted and how little the business returned. The trouble was less effort than positioning: a dated offer competing in a town full of visitors who had smarter, accredited choices a few doors down. Her fix pointed at lifting standards to chase that missing rating and giving guests a concrete reason to pick this house over the next one.
After the cameras left
The trail on Forget-Me-Not has gone cold. Its old address, forgetmenotguesthouse.co.uk, now resolves to nothing, and a 2026 search turned up no live booking listing for the Evesham Place property, only stale directory mirrors pointing back at the dead domain. A vanished website is a real warning sign for a small guest house, yet on its own it does not prove the doors are shut. The honest position is last confirmed trading around the 2005 broadcast, with the present picture unverified. It stays a recheck candidate rather than a settled closure.
Location
18 Evesham Place, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6HT
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Last checked 2026-07-19.