hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 3, Episode 5 · Aired October 4, 2007
Weyanoke / East Beach Hotel
Eastbourne, England
Still going, now under a new name. It now goes by East Beach Hotel.
On the show
Season 3, Episode 5 · October 4, 2007 · hotel
revisited in The Hotel Inspector: Revisited special (2008)
What happened after
Now trades as 'East Beach Hotel'; retains 'Weyanoke' only in a legacy booking.com URL slug.
What happened on the show
Only a brief series 3 note survives for this Eastbourne property, recording that Ruth Watson went there to try to transform the hotel then trading as the Weyanoke. It sits on Royal Parade, a thirty-two room seafront hotel of the sort the show revisited constantly along England's south coast, and it fell to Watson in October 2007. The episode summary does not preserve the detail of what she found or prescribed, so the fair record is the verifiable frame: a struggling Eastbourne seaside hotel that called in the inspector during her third series and was thought interesting enough to feature again in the 2008 Revisited special. The specifics of the makeover are not documented well enough to assert. The 2008 Revisited special returned to Eastbourne to check on the property, a sign the show rated the case worth a second look.
After the cameras left
The property came through and now trades as the East Beach Hotel, keeping the Weyanoke name only in a legacy booking.com URL slug. Its own site is live, and the thirty-two room hotel holds a solid four out of five across more than seven hundred TripAdvisor reviews. A Facebook post in July 2026 promoting Christmas bookings is a firm sign of current trading. This is a clean rename-and-survive: a seaside hotel that shed an old name, kept the address, and remains an active going concern nearly two decades after Watson's visit.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.