hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 12, Episode 6 · Aired July 6, 2016
The Richmoor Hotel
Weymouth, Dorset
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
What happened after
Family-run seaside hotel on the Esplanade; weak signal - TripAdvisor ranks it #20 of 20 hotels in Weymouth at 1/5.
What happened on the show
Alex Polizzi visited the Richmoor in Weymouth, Dorset, during series 12, where mother and manager Loraine employed several of her seven children. A family-run seaside hotel staffed largely by the owner's own offspring carries obvious tensions between family dynamics and professional standards, and that was the terrain of the case. The episode summary is light on the specific faults, so the honest frame is verifiable rather than reconstructed: a family-staffed Weymouth seafront hotel that sought the inspector's help in her twelfth series. Polizzi's task was to bring some professional distance to an operation run on family lines, so that the hotel could function on standards rather than kinship. Loraine's family-staffed seafront hotel aired in July 2016, and its dead-last ranking years later marks it as a business in serious decline.
After the cameras left
The Richmoor is still listed, but the signal is weak. The family-run seaside hotel on Weymouth's Esplanade sits dead last in the town's hotel rankings on TripAdvisor at one out of five, a serious decline signal even though the business is nominally still listed. The evidence is aggregator-based, with a phone number found in search but not independently confirmed, so the open status is held at low confidence. The family hotel Polizzi visited appears, years later, to be trading at best precariously, and it is a strong recheck candidate.
Sources
Confidence: low. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.