Is Sea Air Bed & Breakfast Still Open? The Hotel Inspector Update
The Hotel Inspector, Season 19 Chapel St Leonards, East Midlands
Current status
As of October 2026, Sea Air Bed & Breakfast is listed open on uk.trip.com, reviewed by our team on October 19, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: A trip.com listing for Sea Air B&B at 25 South Road, Chapel St Leonards, shows seven rooms and guest reviews dated through 2026-09-30, matching the seven-bedroom property in the episode summary. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 19, Episode 2
- Aired
- Address 25 South Road, Chapel St Leonards PE24 5TL
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after The Hotel Inspector?
Sea Air Bed & Breakfast, a seven-bedroom 1930s former hotel in Chapel St Leonards on the Lincolnshire coast near Skegness, was the subject of series 19, episode 2 of The Hotel Inspector (Channel 5), aired 2024-04-04. According to TVmaze's episode summary, Mark and Liz had taken on the business with their savings, hoping to start a new life by the sea with their daughter. About two months in, during Skegness's busy summer season, they had barely unpacked and were short on resources, and because of a health setback for Mark, Liz was running the business alone. TVmaze's summary describes Alex Polizzi urging them to act quickly to maximize summer profits, suggesting attractive packages and an improved dining room to help them through the winter, and notes that the building still needed major maintenance.
Since then, the trip.com listing for Sea Air B&B at 25 South Road, Chapel St Leonards PE24 5TL shows seven rooms and guest reviews dated from 2025-08-27 to 2026-09-30. A second travel listing, thetophotels.com, gives the same address for Sea Air B&B, with a page title that refers to special offers for 2026, and describes a guest house with on-site parking, a restaurant serving British cuisine, a bar, and family, guest and king rooms. A Google Places search for the name returned a Sea Air BnB listing at the same address. The seven-room count and the Chapel St Leonards location match TVmaze's description of the episode's property. None of the sources read says whether Mark and Liz still run it or describes what changed after filming.
Wikipedia's list of The Hotel Inspector episodes records the episode as Sea Air Bed & Breakfast, aired 4 April 2024.
The episode
Synopsis (tvmaze.com) : Alex Polizzi is on the Lincolnshire coast to help couple Mark and Liz who have recently taken on Sea Air Bed & Breakfast, a seven-bedroom 1930s former hotel with breakfast room in the seaside village of Chapel St Leonards, near Skegness. Liz and Mark invested every penny of their savings to fund the new B&B, to start a new life beside the seaside with their daughter Ella.It's the height of summer in Skegness, a seaside hotspot that attracts nearly two million visitors a year, all in need of accommodation for their summer breaks.Just two months in, the pair have barely unpacked, and are already low on resources. This ambitious couple calls on The Hotel Inspector to help make their dream come to life. After an enthusiastic start, a health set-back for Mark means Liz is left flying solo - another challenge for the couple's morale.Alex encourages the couple to think fast to maximise profit over the summer months. Some clever packages and an uplift for the dire dining room gives the hotel a fighting chance of surviving the winter months. With the cold months fast approaching, and a building still in need of some serious maintenance, have the couple bitten off more than they can chew? Can The Hotel Inspector help the couple realise their lifelong dream?
Also in Season 19
Season 19: 10 of 12 still open · 1 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 1Riders Rest
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Ep 4The Royal George
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Ep 8Fraser's
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Sources we checked
- tvmaze.com https://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/2806522/the
- uk.trip.com https://uk.trip.com/hotels/skegness-hotel-detail-9983076/seayr-hotel
- thetophotels.com https://thetophotels.com/hotel/uk/seayr-hotel-skegness.en
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Hotel_Inspector_episodes
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Record thi-114 · checked by Cal Marchetti.