hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 21, Episode 2 · Aired March 5, 2026
The Navigator
England
It is still up and running.
On the show
Season 21, Episode 2 · March 5, 2026 · inn
location not resolved in this pass
What happened after
Seafront hotel with restaurant/cafe, official site and multiple booking platforms active.
What happened on the show
The Navigator, a seafront hotel on Marine Drive at Bognor Regis in West Sussex, featured in series 21 with no surviving synopsis, though one framing detail is recorded: the episode described the property as on the verge of collapsing before the intervention. It called in Alex Polizzi during her twenty-first series in 2026. Because the record preserves nothing further of the specific faults or the changes she set, the honest account stops at that outline plus the recorded pre-fix state, rather than reconstructing on-screen events, with the outcome best read from the present-day evidence, which points to a property pulled back from the brink and still trading. Aired in March 2026 during Polizzi's twenty-first series, it was a south-coast seafront case that appears to have survived the collapse the episode described.
After the cameras left
The Navigator is open and trading, a seafront hotel with a restaurant and cafe on Marine Drive at Bognor Regis in West Sussex. Its official site and multiple booking platforms are active as of 2026, with a strong 8.3 out of ten across thousands of reviews on Trivago, so the open status sits at high confidence. The seafront property that the episode described as on the verge of collapsing appears to have been pulled back and kept trading as a going concern, one of the series 21 cases that clearly endured, suggesting Polizzi's intervention took hold at a hotel that had been close to failing.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.