hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 10, Episode 5 · Aired March 6, 2014
Paramount Hotel
Nottingham, England
Open. The rescue stuck and it continues to operate.
On the show
Season 10, Episode 5 · March 6, 2014 · hotel
revisited in The Hotel Inspector Returns (2015)
What happened after
9-room family-run 3-star hotel on Mansfield Road, refurbished Jan 2014; TripAdvisor #29 of 32 B&Bs/inns, 2/5 rating (mixed reviews).
What happened on the show
The series 10 record on the Paramount is memorable for one detail: its owners pushed Alex Polizzi to the edge, and she came within a whisker of walking out, which she had never once done before on the show. That tells you the case was defined by conflict between the inspector and proprietors resistant to her help. The property is a nine-room family-run three-star hotel on Mansfield Road in Nottingham. The episode summary does not preserve the full detail of the faults or fixes, so the honest account is the verifiable frame: a struggling small Nottingham hotel whose owners' resistance nearly drove Polizzi off, featured in her tenth series and revisited in 2015. The owners who nearly drove Polizzi to walk out aired in March 2014, and the show returned in 2015 to a hotel still trading low in the rankings.
After the cameras left
The Paramount is still trading, a nine-room family-run three-star hotel on Mansfield Road in Nottingham, refurbished around the time of the episode. It sits low in the city's bed-and-breakfast and inn rankings at two out of five on mixed reviews, and the evidence is aggregator-based across several mirror sites, so the open status is held at medium confidence. The owners who nearly drove Polizzi to walk out appear to have kept the hotel going, if not lifted it far up the rankings, more than a decade after her fraught tenth-series visit.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.