hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 14, Episode 4 · Aired June 26, 2018
Westward Ho! Hotel
Folkestone, England
It is still up and running.
On the show
Season 14, Episode 4 · June 26, 2018 · hotel
revisited in Series 19 (2024-05-30)
What happened after
Water-sports-facility hotel with garden/terrace near the beach; spine confirms a Series 19 (2024-05-30) revisit corroborating continuity to at least 2024; current evidence is aggregator-only.
What happened on the show
The series 14 record on the Westward Ho! Hotel in Folkestone is brief, framing Alex Polizzi's task as mediating a fall-out to get everyone back on board. That points to a staffing or ownership rift as the core problem, the kind of internal conflict Polizzi often had to resolve before any operational fix could stick. The episode summary does not preserve the fuller detail, so the honest frame is verifiable rather than reconstructed: a struggling Folkestone hotel divided by some internal fall-out that called in the inspector during her fourteenth series. The property, on Clifton Crescent near the beach, needed its people aligned before its trade could recover. The staff fall-out Polizzi mediated aired in June 2018, and the show returned in series 19 in 2024, confirming the Folkestone hotel still trading.
After the cameras left
The Westward Ho! is still trading, a hotel with water-sports facilities, a garden and a terrace near the beach on Clifton Crescent in Folkestone. The show returned for a revisit in series 19 in 2024, confirming continuity to at least that point, and current evidence appears consistently across the major booking aggregators, though no standalone official site was independently confirmed, so the open status is held at medium confidence. The divided Folkestone hotel Polizzi worked to reunite appears to have kept going, still trading on its seaside position and its water-sports offer years after her visit.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.