hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 17, Episode 6 · Aired July 28, 2022
The Falcon Hotel
Cambridgeshire
This one survived. It remains in business.
What happened after
16th-century coaching inn, official site and multiple booking platforms with 2026 pricing.
What happened on the show
Alex Polizzi visited the Falcon Hotel in Cambridgeshire in series 17, run by hotelier Colin and his daughter Jean, who had taken on the lease of the sixteenth-century coaching inn eleven years earlier. A historic coaching inn run by a father-and-daughter team fit a familiar shape for the show, combining heritage architecture with the dynamics of a family business. The episode summary is brief on the specific faults, so the honest frame is verifiable rather than reconstructed: a long-leased historic Cambridgeshire coaching inn, run by a father and daughter, that called in the inspector during her seventeenth series in 2022. Polizzi's task was to help a family that had held the lease for over a decade lift a struggling historic inn.
After the cameras left
The Falcon Hotel is still trading, a sixteenth-century coaching inn at Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire, appearing on its official site and multiple booking platforms with 2026 pricing. The evidence is largely aggregator-based, with a longtime manager reportedly departing after around fourteen years but no closure or ownership-change news found, so the open status is held at medium confidence. The location confirms this is the Cambridgeshire Falcon, not a same-named property elsewhere. The historic inn Colin and Jean leased appears to have kept going as a going concern, still trading on the character of its Tudor-era building years after Polizzi's visit.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.