hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 9, Episode 7 · Aired August 16, 2012
The White Hart Hotel
St Albans, England
This one survived. It remains in business.
On the show
Season 9, Episode 7 · August 16, 2012 · hotel
revisited in The Hotel Inspector Returns (2014)
What happened after
600-year-old coaching inn, 'Tudors at The White Hart' restaurant; official site live with daily hours and no closure markers.
What happened on the show
The series 9 record on the White Hart frames it as a haunted 15th-century inn in St Albans whose guests, it said, often got more than they expected. The property is a 600-year-old coaching inn on Holywell Hill, the sort of deeply historic building whose age is both its charm and its maintenance headache. The episode summary leans on the ghost-story angle rather than the operational detail, so the honest account is the verifiable frame: a struggling ancient coaching inn in St Albans that called in the inspector during her ninth series. The specific faults Polizzi found and the changes she ordered are not preserved fully enough to assert beyond that outline. The haunted-hotel framing aired in August 2012, and the show returned in 2014 to an inn still trading on the character of its 600-year-old building.
After the cameras left
The White Hart is open and trading. The 600-year-old coaching inn on Holywell Hill runs its Tudors at The White Hart restaurant, and its official site is live with daily hours posted, active social links and no closure markers as of 2026. The show returned for a 2014 revisit. The haunted St Albans inn Polizzi visited has kept its doors open, still trading on the character of a genuinely old building while running a working restaurant and hotel more than a decade after her ninth series.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.