Hotel Impossible

Hotel Impossible
Genre Reality TV
Documentary
Starring Anthony Melchiorri
No. of seasons 5
No. of episodes 43
Production
Executive producer(s) Rob Green
Bruce David Klein
Lorri Leighton
Location(s) United States
Canada
Camera setup Multiple
Running time 60 minutes
(including commercials)
Production company(s) Atlas Media Corp.
Broadcast
Original channel Travel Channel
Original run September 4, 2012 – present
External links
Website

Hotel Impossible is a reality television program from Travel Channel in which struggling hotels receive an extensive makeover by veteran hotel operator and hospitality expert Anthony Melchiorri and team. The show premiered on April 9, 2012.

Premise

Each episode features a particular hotel struggling with problems and not living up to its full potential. Twenty-plus year veteran hotelier Anthony Melchiorri, secretly scouts each hotel and identifies the property's biggest, most urgent issues. He meets with staff, from front desk clerks and housekeeping, the maintenance team, and the owners themselves to determine the key operation failures.[1] Some owners risk losing their hotels if Melchiorri's innovations don't work. After devising a plan for physical, cosmetic, and procedural changes with his designer (usually Casey Noble or former Design Star contestant Blanche Garcia), Melchiorri works to revamp the hotel and its usually biggest problem—the hotel owners themselves.[2][3]

Hotel Impossible was renewed for a second season by the Travel Channel in September 2012.[4] A special titled After Anthony aired on February 4, 2013, featuring a look back at the hotels visited in the first season.[5][6] The third season debuted on August 12, 2013.[7] In January 2014, before the fourth season debuted, a series of six half-hour follow-up episodes titled Hotel Impossible Undercover revisited individual hotels from previous seasons.[8][9][10] The fourth season debuted January 27, 2014, the fifth season on October 7, 2014.

Episodes

Series overview

Season Episodes Originally aired
Season premiere Season finale
1 13 April 9, 2012 August 6, 2012
2 14 December 3, 2012 March 25, 2013
3 13 August 12, 2013 November 4, 2013
Undercover 6 January 6, 2014 January 20, 2014
4 13 January 27, 2014 June 9, 2014
5 TBA October 7, 2014 January 13, 2015

Season 1 (2012)

No. in
series		 No. in
season		 Title Original air date
11"Gurney's Inn – Montauk, NY"[5]April 9, 2012
22"The Penguin Hotel – South Beach, FL"[11]April 16, 2012
33"The Hotel New Yorker – Miami, FL"[11]April 23, 2012
44"The Purple Orchid Wine Country Resort & Spa – Livermore, CA"[12]April 30, 2012
55"The Ocean Manor Resort – Fort Lauderdale, FL"[11]May 7, 2012
66"The Hotel Corpus Christi Bayfront – Corpus Christi, TX"May 14, 2012
77"La Jolla Cove Suites – La Jolla, CA"[13]May 28, 2012
88"Southern Oaks Inn – Branson, MO"June 4, 2012
99"Fiddler's Inn – Nashville, TN"June 11, 2012
1010"Newport Spa & Whirlpool Suites – Newport, RI"June 25, 2012
1111"Dude Rancher Lodge – Billings, MT"[6][14]July 9, 2012
1212"Vermont Inn – Mendon, VT"[15][16]July 23, 2012
1313"The Dream Inn – Daytona Beach, FL"August 6, 2012

Season 2 (2012–13)

No. in
series		 No. in
season		 Title Original air date
141"Caribe Playa Beach Resort – Patillas, Puerto Rico"December 3, 2012
152"Triangle T Ranch – Dragoon, AZ"[17][18]December 10, 2012
163"Maui Sunseeker Resort – Maui, HI"[19]December 17, 2012
174"The Hotel Léger – Mokelumne Hill, CA"[20]January 7, 2013
185"Glacier Bear Lodge – Yakutat, AK"[21]January 14, 2013
196"Telemark Resort & Convention Center – Cable, WI"[22][23]January 21, 2013
207"Periwinkle Inn – Cape May, NJ"January 28, 2013
21S00"After Anthony Special"[6]February 4, 2013
Six hotels are revisited to see how they are operating since Anthony's visits to each: The Ocean Manor Resort, Dude Rancher Lodge, The Purple Orchid Wine Country Resort & Spa, The Dream Inn, La Jolla Cove Suites and The Hotel New Yorker.
228"The Curve – Palm Springs, CA"February 11, 2013
239"Casa Verde Hotel – Rincon, Puerto Rico"February 18, 2013
2410"Gardenia Resort – Negril, Jamaica"March 4, 2013
2511"Alpenhof Lodge – Mammoth Lakes, CA"March 11, 2013
2612"Bromley Sun Lodge – Peru, VT"March 18, 2013
2713"The Western Riviera – Grand Lake, CO"[2][24][25]March 25, 2013

Season 3 (2013)

No. in
series		 No. in
season		 Title Original air date
281"Abacrombie Inn B&B – Baltimore, MD"[7][26]August 12, 2013
292"Litohoro Olympus Resort Villas – Greece"August 19, 2013
303"Gadsden Hotel – Douglas, AZ"[27][28][29]August 26, 2013
314"Hotel Iguanazul – Santa Cruz, Costa Rica"September 2, 2013
325"Water Gap Country Club Resort – Delaware Water Gap, PA"[30]September 9, 2013
336"Holbrooke Hotel – Grass Valley, CA"[31][32]September 16, 2013
347"Lankford Hotel – Ocean City, MD"[33][34]September 23, 2013
358"Beachfront Inn – Baileys Harbor, WI"[35][36][37]September 30, 2013
369"Sevilla Inn – Kissimmee, FL"[38]October 7, 2013
3710"Ritz Inn – Niagara Falls, Canada"October 14, 2013
3811"Operation Sandy – Seaside Heights, NJ Part 1"[39]October 21, 2013
3912"Operation Sandy – Seaside Heights, NJ Part 2"October 28, 2013
4013"Victorian Inn – Sparks, NV"November 4, 2013

Hotel Impossible Undercover (2014)

No. in
series		 No. in
season		 Title Original air date
411"Glacier Bear Lodge Undercover"January 6, 2014
422"Hotel Leger Undercover"[8]January 6, 2014
433"Casa Verde Undercover"January 13, 2014
444"Triangle T Ranch Undercover"[9]January 13, 2014
455"Ocean Manor Undercover"January 20, 2014
476"Holbrooke Hotel Undercover"[10][40]January 20, 2014

Season 4 (2014)

No. in
series		 No. in
season		 Title
Location		 Original air date
481"Alaskan Heavyweights"
"Alaskan Hotel and Bar – Juneau, AK"[41][42][43][44]		January 27, 2014
492"Owner Overboard"
"Creekside Inn – Islamorada, FL"[45]		February 3, 2014
503"Mis-Fortune Hotel"
"Fortune Hotel – Las Vegas, NV"[46][47]		February 10, 2014
514"Breaking Point"
"Chipman Hill Suites – Saint John, NB"		February 17, 2014
525"Hollywood Nightmare"
"Hollywood Liberty Hotel – Hollywood, CA"[1]		February 24, 2014
536"Homestead Hoarders Gone Wild"
"Floridian Hotel – Homestead, FL"[48]		March 3, 2014
547"Temper Expectations"
"Catskill Mountain Lodge – Palenville, NY"[49]		April 28, 2014
558"Making Waves"
"Carnival Motor Inn – Myrtle Beach, SC"[50][51]		May 5, 2014
569"Palmero Hotel"
"Hotel Solunto Mare – Palermo, Italy"		May 12, 2014
5710"Swamped"
"High Meadows Inn – Roaring Gap, NC"		May 19, 2014
5811"Rat Race"
"University Inn at Emory – Atlanta, GA"		May 26, 2014
5912"Stormy Wedding"
"Vagabond Lodge – Hood River, OR"[52]		June 2, 2014
6013"Airing the Family Business"
"Glenwood Motor Lodge – Glenwood Springs, CO"		June 9, 2014

Season 5 (2014–15)

No. in
series		 No. in
season		 Title Original air date U.S. viewers
611"Crash Course in Daytona"
"Streamline Hotel – Daytona Beach, FL"		October 7, 2014N/A
622"Swinging for the Fences"
"Autoport Motel – State College, PA"		October 14, 2014N/A
633"Rotting Woodstock"
"Woodstock Lodge – Woodstock, NY"		October 21, 2014N/A
644"Crappy Management"
"Crookston Inn & Convention Center – Crookston, MN"		October 28, 2014N/A
655"Super Nova Scotia"
"Hearthstone Inn – Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia"		November 4, 2014N/A
666"Masters of My Domain"
"Houndslake Hotel – Aiken, SC"		November 11, 2014N/A
677"Resort to Spanking"
"Mountain View Lodge – Manson, WA"		November 25, 2014N/A
688"Packing Heat"
"Vacationland Inn and Conference Center – Brewer, ME"		December 9, 2014N/A
699"Clearing the Heir"
"Ocean Crest Resort – Moclips, WA"		December 16, 2014545,000[53]
7010"Sleeping On the Job!"
"CitiGarden Hotel – South San Francisco, CA[54]"[55]		December 30, 2014523,000[56]
7111"Getting Screwed"[57]
"Missouri Flats Inn – Williston, ND"[58][57]		January 6, 2015N/A
7212"The Big Sleasy"[59]
"Empress Hotel – New Orleans, LA"[59]		January 13, 2015591,000[60]

See also

References

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