hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 16, Episode 6 · Aired July 22, 2021
Spanhoe
Northamptonshire
Open. The rescue stuck and it continues to operate.
What happened after
Luxury B&B with pool/hot tub, trading under extended name 'Spanhoe Lodge'; official site and booking platforms active.
What happened on the show
Alex Polizzi found her way to Spanhoe Lodge in Northamptonshire in series 16, where an unexplained crash in guests had forced the owners to turn to the show for help. That mystery, a sudden and unexplained collapse in bookings at an otherwise appealing property, was the puzzle the case set out to solve. A luxury bed and breakfast with a pool and hot tub at Laxton, it had the facilities but had lost its trade for reasons that were not obvious. Polizzi's task was to diagnose what had gone wrong beneath the surface and rebuild the guest numbers, since a property this well equipped should not have been emptying out without a cause worth finding. The unexplained collapse in guests aired in July 2021, and the property has since recovered to top its village's specialty-lodging listing.
After the cameras left
Spanhoe is open and trading, a luxury bed and breakfast with a pool and hot tub at Laxton in Northamptonshire, now under the full trading name Spanhoe Lodge. Its official site and the booking platforms are active as of 2026, and it tops the specialty-lodging listing for its village on TripAdvisor with a four out of five, so the open status sits at high confidence. The property Polizzi visited after its unexplained crash in guests appears to have recovered its footing and kept going as a well-regarded going concern, one of the series 16 cases that clearly steadied.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.