hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 8, Episode 4 · Aired October 24, 2011
The Crown Inn Hotel (Peak District)
Derbyshire
Status unknown. No reliable current signal turned up. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2011.
What happened after
We have not been able to confirm what happened to this business since the episode aired. If you know its current status, we would like to hear from you.
What happened on the show
Alex Polizzi headed to the Peak District in series 8 to help the proprietor of a 15th-century inn struggling on several fronts. The two-star property had ten en-suite bedrooms, a bar and a fifty-seat restaurant, but could not draw weekend custom, and the show described a business that had run up substantial losses over the years. Her task was to lift the dated decor and turn the fortunes of a historic Derbyshire inn that had the bones and the capacity to trade well but was failing to fill either its rooms or its restaurant when it most needed to. The age and character of the place were assets; the weak weekend trade was the wound she had to close. The 15th-century inn's weak weekend trade aired in October 2011, and its current status remains one of the harder cases in this series to pin down.
After the cameras left
The current status of this Crown Inn could not be confirmed. The exact Peak District village was not resolved, and a later YouTube retrospective implying serious post-episode financial trouble surfaced without any accompanying confirmation of whether the inn is open or closed today. The honest position is last confirmed around the 2011 broadcast, with the present picture unverified. It remains a recheck candidate, best pursued by narrowing to the specific Derbyshire parish and a 15th-century inn with ten rooms.
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