hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 18, Episode 3 · Aired October 24, 2023
Stump Cross Caverns
England
It is still up and running.
On the show
Season 18, Episode 3 · October 24, 2023 · guest house
location not resolved in this pass
What happened after
Show cave / visitor attraction with cafe and shop, official site directly confirms ongoing operation and post-episode results.
What happened on the show
Stump Cross Caverns is a striking outlier among the show's cases and, in series 18, carried no standard synopsis. Rather than a hotel or guest house, it is a show cave and visitor attraction with a cafe and shop in the Yorkshire Dales, near Pateley Bridge, and Alex Polizzi's eighteenth-series visit in 2023 tackled a very different kind of hospitality business built around an underground attraction. Because the record preserves nothing of the specific problems she diagnosed, the honest frame is verifiable rather than reconstructed, drawn from the property's type, setting and the plain fact of the inspection, with the outcome documented unusually clearly by the business itself on its own site. By its own later account the attraction saw visitors and profits climb sharply after broadcast, one of the series' most clearly positive outcomes.
After the cameras left
Stump Cross Caverns is open and trading, and unusually candid about the impact of the visit. Its own site directly reports a ten to fifteen per cent increase in visitors, double the number of visitors to its on-site shop and a hundred per cent increase in profits since the episode aired, so the open status sits at high confidence. The Yorkshire Dales show cave, cafe and shop that Polizzi visited did not just survive; by its own account it prospered markedly after the broadcast, one of the most clearly positive documented outcomes among the series 18 cases.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.