hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 17, Episode 4 · Aired July 7, 2022
The Pack O' Cards
Combe Martin, North Devon
This one survived. It remains in business.
What happened after
Grade II* listed historic inn/restaurant/B&B, official site live with current pricing.
What happened on the show
The series 17 record on the Pack O' Cards is brief, noting Alex Polizzi visiting an inn with rooms at Combe Martin on the north Devon coast. The property is a genuinely remarkable one, a Grade II star listed building dating to around 1690, built to a playing-card theme, which gave it a distinctive character among the show's cases. Because the episode summary preserves little beyond that, the honest frame is verifiable rather than reconstructed: a historic themed Devon inn with rooms that sought the inspector's help during her seventeenth series in 2022. The specific problems Polizzi diagnosed and the changes she set are not documented fully enough to assert beyond that outline. The extraordinary playing-card-themed inn, dating to around 1690, aired in July 2022 and continues to trade on the character of its ancient building.
After the cameras left
The Pack O' Cards is open and trading, a Grade II star listed historic inn, restaurant and bed and breakfast dating to around 1690 at Combe Martin in north Devon. Its official site is live with current pricing, a Sunday carvery listed and 2026 pricing on Booking.com, so the open status sits at high confidence. The distinctive playing-card-themed inn Polizzi visited appears to have kept going comfortably as a going concern, still trading on the extraordinary character of a building more than three centuries old, one of the series 17 cases that clearly endured in good order.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.