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What Happened to Hooligan's Lodge After Hotel Impossible? (Soldotna, AK)

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As of September 2026, Hooligan's Lodge has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 2025.

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What the source shows: Google Places marks the business CLOSED_PERMANENTLY and a Yelp page updated September 2025 separately lists it as closed.

  • Season / episode Season 8, Episode 4
  • Original air date
  • Address 44715 Sterling Hwy, Soldotna, AK 99669
  • Current name Hooligans Lodging & Saloon

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What happened after Hotel Impossible?

Hotel Impossible's Season 8 episode Alarmed in Alaska, which aired 2016-11-14, featured Hooligan's Lodge in Soldotna, Alaska. Google Places lists the address, 44715 Sterling Hwy, under the name Hooligans Lodging & Saloon with a business status of CLOSED_PERMANENTLY. A Yelp page marking the business closed, last updated in September 2025, likewise carries the property as closed, describing a roughly 33-to-41-room lodge that combined guest rooms with an on-site restaurant and bar. The Peninsula Clarion reported on 2015-01-20 that Hooligan's Lodging & Saloon, then owned by Molly Blakeley-Poland, owed more than $41,000 in overdue sales taxes, the largest amount among five Kenai Peninsula businesses named that month, and that the borough assembly had voted to protest renewal of the property's liquor license over the unpaid taxes; Blakeley-Poland told the paper she was working on a payment plan. Roadtrippers and Tripadvisor both carry listings for the lodge without indicating current operation, and travel-industry booking codes for a Hooligans Fishing Lodge at the same address appear in older trade listings without recent updates. No source reviewed here gives an exact closure date, and no fresher listing was found showing the property reopened or operating under new management. Between the Google Places closure flag and the dated Yelp listing marking the business closed, the record indicates the lodge featured on the show is no longer operating at the Sterling Highway address, roughly a decade after Hotel Impossible documented its financial and operational problems there.

Featured on Hotel Impossible

Season / episode
Season 8, Episode 4
Original air date
Episode title
Alarmed in Alaska
What was featured
Alarm, safety, and management problems at a Soldotna lodge
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Hooligan's Lodge

Frequently asked questions

Is Hooligan's Lodge still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, Hooligan's Lodge has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 2025.

What happened to Hooligan's Lodge after Hotel Impossible?

Hotel Impossible's Season 8 episode Alarmed in Alaska, which aired 2016-11-14, featured Hooligan's Lodge in Soldotna, Alaska. As of September 2026, Hooligan's Lodge has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 2025.

Is Hooligan's Lodge permanently closed?

As of September 2026, Hooligan's Lodge has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 2025. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.

What is Hooligan's Lodge called now?

Now: Hooligans Lodging & Saloon (formerly Hooligan's Lodge). As of September 2026, Hooligan's Lodge has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 2025.

Where is Hooligan's Lodge located?

44715 Sterling Hwy, Soldotna, AK 99669. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Hotel Impossible featured Hooligan's Lodge?

Season 8, Episode 4 of Hotel Impossible, first aired November 14, 2016. The episode is titled “Alarmed in Alaska”.

What do reviews say since Hotel Impossible?

No source reviewed here gives an exact closure date, and no fresher listing was found showing the property reopened or operating under new management. We summarise what dated sources report; we do not publish our own rating.

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Address
44715 Sterling Hwy, Soldotna, AK 99669
Venue type
hotel
Official website
None found

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Sources

  • Yelp — https://www.yelp.com/biz/hooligans-saloon-and-lodging-soldotna
  • peninsulaclarion.com — https://www.peninsulaclarion.com/news/three-local-businesses-face-liquor-license-protests-over-unpaid-taxes/
  • Tripadvisor — https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g31127-d23894264-Reviews-Hooligans_Lodging_Saloon-Soldotna_Alaska.html

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