hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 12, Episode 8 · Aired July 20, 2016
The Bulstone Hotel
Branscombe, England
This one survived. It remains in business. It trades today as The Bulstone.
What happened after
Repurposed from hotel to self-catering holiday apartments/suites, now trades as 'The Bulstone'; official site live with functional booking calendar link, recent 2026 TripAdvisor reviews.
What happened on the show
Husband and wife Judith and Kevin had run their Branscombe hotel for twenty years by the time Alex Polizzi arrived in the series 12 finale, but their once-busy establishment had lost its appeal with the British family-staycation market. The case was one of gradual drift rather than sudden crisis: a long-established Devon hotel that had slowly lost touch with the changing tastes of the family market it depended on. Polizzi's task was to reconnect a dated property with what modern families actually wanted from a holiday, updating an operation that had coasted on old habits for two decades while the market moved on around it. Judith and Kevin's two-decade family hotel closed series 12 in July 2016 before its reinvention as self-catering units under new owners.
After the cameras left
The Bulstone survives and has adapted, now trading as The Bulstone, repurposed from a hotel into self-catering holiday apartments and suites at Branscombe in Devon. Its official site is live with a functional booking calendar and recent 2026 TripAdvisor reviews, one noting that new owners are great, which points to a change of ownership alongside the business-model shift. Judith and Kevin's dated family hotel appears to have passed into new hands and reinvented itself as self-catering units, a survival through reinvention rather than a closure.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.