hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 9, Episode 5 · Aired August 2, 2012
Mansion Lions Hotel
Eastbourne, England
Yes. This one is still open.
What happened after
3-star beachfront hotel in Eastbourne city centre with 'Lions Restaurant'; 2026-dated reviews on Hotels.com.
What happened on the show
The series 9 note on the Mansion Lions is a brief one, framing it as Alex Polizzi walking into the lion's den to help a struggling establishment in Eastbourne. The property is a beachfront hotel in the East Sussex resort town with a Lions Restaurant, one more faded seaside hotel of the type the show worked through repeatedly. The episode summary does not preserve the detail of the specific faults or fixes, so the honest account is the verifiable frame: a struggling Eastbourne seafront hotel that called in the inspector during her ninth series, with its later standing better read from the present-day evidence than the sparse on-screen record. The lion's-den framing aired in August 2012, and the Eastbourne seafront hotel has kept trading, if at middling review scores, in the years since.
After the cameras left
The Mansion Lions is still trading, a three-star beachfront hotel in Eastbourne town centre with its Lions Restaurant, carrying 2026-dated reviews on Hotels.com and listings across the aggregators. The evidence rests on those aggregator sites rather than a confirmed standalone official domain, so the open status is held at medium confidence, and its middling review scores suggest a business getting by rather than excelling. Still, the seafront hotel Polizzi visited appears to have kept going, more than a decade on from her ninth-series call.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.