hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 20, Episode 3 · Aired July 31, 2025
St Mary's Gate Inn
England
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
On the show
Season 20, Episode 3 · July 31, 2025 · inn
location not resolved in this pass
What happened after
500-year-old public house converted to boutique hotel/gastropub, official site and booking platforms with 2026 pricing.
What happened on the show
In Arundel, West Sussex, Alex Polizzi's series 20 visit to St Mary's Gate Inn left no surviving synopsis, so the on-screen detail is undocumented. The verifiable frame is a 500-year-old public house converted into a boutique hotel and gastropub, run by owners Dave and Katie, that called in the inspector during her twentieth series in 2025. A historic pub reworked into a boutique hotel fit the show's recurring interest in heritage buildings adapting to modern trade. Because the record preserves nothing of the specific faults or the changes she set, the honest account stops at that outline rather than reconstructing on-screen events, with the outcome best read from where the property later stood. Screened in July 2025 in Polizzi's twentieth series, it was one of her historic-pub conversions on the south coast.
After the cameras left
St Mary's Gate Inn is open and trading, a 500-year-old pub converted to a boutique hotel and gastropub at Arundel in West Sussex, run by Dave and Katie. Its official site and booking platforms show 2026 pricing, with a strong 9.4 out of ten guest rating on Booking.com and the location confirmed by local news, so the open status sits at high confidence. The historic Arundel pub-turned-boutique-hotel that Polizzi visited appears to have kept going as a well-regarded going concern, one of the series 20 cases that clearly endured despite the missing synopsis, blending its Tudor-era fabric with a modern gastropub offer.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.