Hotel on sea - Episode 1 

I find this all so sad. As a child I spent many a happy holiday in Blackpool in hotels and boarding houses. We were always so excited and by simple things like a full English breakfast, grapefruit and cereals. The smell of the rooms, the bandit machine in the hall, and the sea within eyesight.

I can tell you not only does uniforms improve staff morale but it also helps guests identify staff of the property quickly.

I prefer Mark Jenkins.

stayed in the president hotel last week and it was like each staff member had a competition for worst employee,

Think miss Walsh should be looking a bit closer to home for the failings of hotel/staff

The silly portraits of Washington and Lincoln can be upgraded for a start.

One foot in the grave hotel 😉😄😄😄😄

So the duty manager has cheap gold rings on each finger, one saying Bitch, how lovely😬😬😬

Dog in dining room outrageous.

A pleasure to watch! Well produced, nicely filmed and amusing as well. I remember the hotel in its previous existence as the Tara. The droll tones of the narrator and the wry observations are the icing on the cake. I'm not sure that this is the right place to criticise the hotel staff following visits or for a commentary on the hotel itself. I look foward to future episodes.

Isn't the duty manager obligated to report a huge hole in the ceiling ??

the duty manager should be noticing the problems she is pointing out. and walkie talkies would have been a great help.

It’s not easy running a hotel and the owner seems to think the general manager is there to help her gaslight every other staff member when in fact she should be busting his balls . However , she’s missed a very important member of staff during her decision on who should be general manager , Sandra the head receptionist is very competent and seems more clued up than any of them

I have an idea.. get rid of that ghastly ancient wallpaper on the staircase and your yappy dog! Alex Polizzi would have had a field day in this place!

"Steph",the manager; looks like "Uncle Fester" from the Addams Family..... :(

This was filmed back in the early 2000s, but to this day, in 2021, the hotel was sold off and was used as a cannabis farm until it got raided by the police. Much money has been spent on the town infrastructure, which is needed; otherwise, without the millions be spent on the place, it would just be like Skegness, which is a complete dump of a town!

Those were day's my friends that will never end

Gasp ! Bingo in the nightclub ! Does it actually get more exciting ??

RIP Steph a nice bloke

Strange to see it all so different to how it is now with metals and plastics doing a really tasteful job

It is a shame Blackpool has lost it's popularity.

She reminds me of my old manager. Quite unique but times were all about image, not customer care. You can't polish a turd.

Owner does inspection with dog in tow leaving dog hairs everywhere😂😂

How can anyone employ a Manager, who doesn't deal with a room with a ceiling problem? Its unacceptable as well as unbelievable......

Kept expecting Peter Kay to turn up

according to a blackpool hotel video the president has been stood empty for about a couple of years. next door hotel was featured on corrie where alan bradley

This must be very dated for now. I remember around 2008 to 2012 I was in Blackpool around that time, and hotels in general was experiencing a decline in there booking. I remember doing some promotional work to welcome some old clientele, but they came back as "dead letters". So, clusters of many things. I've started visiting Blackpool this year and looks booking ✨

That blonde receptionist has the most patronising telephone manner I have ever heard in my life.

Stayed in this last year...was not impressed. Lift wasn't working and we were on floor 6 with 7 flights of stairs to climb, food was distinctly average and the dining room smelt of boiled cabbage, the bar, though open had no staff serving and the staff that were all foreign and seemed overworked. The so called cabaret consisted of one bloke singing over backing tracks and the advertised bingo was cancelled. The lady on reception though was a little gem and ended up rushing backwards and forwards between the two bars and the dining room...poor thing totally overworked. Non of the staff in this video were working there and i'm wondering is the place under new management, the place is now looking shabby and needs a makeover. The room we were in was acceptable though and was worth the (low end) price we paid for it.

two words - golden thistle

I'd have sold the hotel if I were her. What a stupid decision to keep a big hotel after the whole town has lost its glory lol!

3:21 If she crashes that car,theres gonna be wall to wall pomeranian guts...a la Jayne Mansfield.

Omg. He used the same cloth on the window sills and the tables.

I bet that girl from housekeeping told Mrs Walsh about the room 😅

glad to see in 2021 its gone for good

Oh my, this reminds me of a H. Inn I once worked in. Same problems thinking they'd be solved by new uniforms, etc. I thought the no lift because no one thought of using a torch was priceless and not being able to find the maintenance man!!

How does this hotel stay open?

Just wanna say hi to Alan French......from Carl.......Manchester.

I love dogs however,they do not belong in the Hotel especially during such an important meeting..and poms are little yappy shits tbh.

What business has she got to be inherited lol

The Manager wipes down the dirty window sill and then uses the same cloth to clean tables where people will eat. Urggg

How the hell does the duty manager get away with wearing a ring saying bitch?!

She is in dreamland

Didn't they think she would need to know about the damaged ceiling? 🙄

Everything about this is..depressing

so far, i dont think she is horrible shouldnt the general manager be checking all the stuff that she was checking?

Have any of you got any ideas because I haven't.

Where are all the staff now? and what are they doing?

"At the end of the day it's all about " me having enough to have my 10th holiday this year while you borrow a fiver off your nan for your leccy

Mrs Walsh should not have had to tell Steph off about his appearance - it was unacceptable , especially all those tacky rings

The REAL Faulty Towers

Still taking bookings and has been shut for about a year or so Whilst a gang moved in and grew cannabis 🤔

I stay in Blackpool twice a year. Have passed this hotel many times. I looked at their website it says it is still owned by the Walsh family. Has anyone stayed here? I wonder if they have refurbished it? The reviews on Tripadvisor are not great.

What a fantastic idea when a hotel is not making money to buy new uniforms. How daft that is.

Place is going to the dogs and the concern is uniforms,like chrome plating a turd.

French knickers and anything goes would have been fine for this useless crew.

Owner acts like she owns the Savoy but in reality she owns a grotty, crumbling, disgusting pile of rubble

She makes no difference between staff and dog. Put the dog in the same line with people is disrespectful to the people.

The only genuine looking person was the guy who was doing the dishwashing. Also don’t they use walkie talkies within staff and let’s say that handyman?

Fawlty Towers.

Do you have to be f__king mad to work in a hotel ???

Can see why this place closed down

The last time I did go Blackpool was on the up and up 2016 I think

Blackpool 😄😄😄 50yrs out of date and just look at the name BLACKpool 😉😉😉

27:18

FFS its Faulty Towers

I hate bingo lol

Could anybody help me on what happened to Alan French, I've watched the documentary and found him a captivating character who's definitely seemed admirable throughout, just wondering through sheer curiosity.

I take it’s a dog friendly hotel

The receptionist should not be calling customers love it should be sir and madame. Its meant to be a professional hotel not a B&B.

I lost interest when she said... At the end of the day!

Seems the staff at these places are all incredibly dull - Not reporting that there's been a ceiling collapse... idiocy.

NO wonder it is closed now

IF they charge a VERY Low rate,its acceptable..... :)

it is such a shame it ended up being turned into a cannabis factory

That job is making steff ill he should see a doctor

It's gone out of business now. Covid strikes again.

boy talking about the bingo calls is talking shit about "political correctness" it's bingo baldy not parliament.

What a horrible dog

BOREING