hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 3, Episode 3 · Aired September 20, 2007
Safari Hotel
Bournemouth, England
It rebranded and carried on. It now goes by Safari Bistro Hotel.
What happened after
Trading now as 'Safari Bistro Hotel' at the same address.
What happened on the show
Series 3 left only a one-line record of Safari Hotel, noting Ruth Watson's trip to Bournemouth to try to turn it around, so the specifics of what she found on camera have not survived in the synopsis. The property sits at 91 St Michael's Road in the resort town, an independent hotel of the modest seaside kind the show worked through repeatedly during Watson's run in autumn 2007. Without a fuller episode account, the responsible summary is limited to the verifiable frame: a small Bournemouth hotel that called in the inspector during the third series and was judged in enough difficulty to justify the visit. The detail of its failings and the changes Watson prescribed are not documented well enough to state with confidence.
After the cameras left
Safari Hotel is still going, now trading under a lightly changed name as the Safari Bistro Hotel at the same St Michael's Road address. The rebrand shows up consistently across booking aggregators such as letsbookhotel.com and trip.com, though no official site was fetched directly, so the renamed status sits at medium confidence. The addition of a bistro identity suggests a property that leaned into its food offer to stay relevant. Either way the Bournemouth hotel survived its inspection and kept trading under a new sign.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.