hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 18, Episode 2 · Aired October 17, 2023
The Kings Arms
England
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
On the show
Season 18, Episode 2 · October 17, 2023 · inn
location not resolved in this pass
What happened after
17th-century village pub with B&B rooms, official site and active booking system.
What happened on the show
The Kings Arms reached series 18 without a surviving synopsis, so the specific on-screen detail is undocumented. The verifiable frame is a seventeenth-century village pub with bed-and-breakfast rooms at Scalford in Leicestershire, near Melton Mowbray, that called in Alex Polizzi during her eighteenth series in 2023. A historic village pub with rooms fit the show's recurring subject matter. Because the record preserves nothing of the particular problems she diagnosed or the changes she set, the honest account stops at that outline rather than reconstructing events the material does not support, and the truer measure of the visit lies in where the property later stood, which the present-day evidence documents clearly. Aired in October 2023 during Polizzi's eighteenth series, it was one of her historic-pub cases in the East Midlands.
After the cameras left
The Kings Arms is open and trading, a seventeenth-century village pub with bed-and-breakfast rooms at Scalford in Leicestershire, near Melton Mowbray. Its official site and an active booking system are live as of 2026, with the location confirmed by local news coverage, so the open status sits at high confidence. The historic village pub Polizzi visited appears to have kept going as a going concern, one of the series 18 cases that clearly endured despite the gap in the on-screen record, still trading as a characterful old pub with rooms in the Leicestershire countryside years after her visit.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.