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The Blue Inn Is Now The Hotel Rafiya — The Hotel Inspector Update

The Hotel Inspector, Season 12 Redditch, West Midlands

Current status

Renamed

As of October 2026, expedia.com lists this address as The Hotel Rafiya; reviewed by our team on October 19, 2026, not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: Expedia and Hotels.com list a hotel at Far Moor Lane, Redditch B98 0SD as The Hotel Rafiya with Blue Inn among its earlier names, with guest reviews dated through at least August 2026. How we decide a status →

What happened after The Hotel Inspector?

The Blue Inn in Redditch, Worcestershire, was the subject of the opening episode of series 12 of The Hotel Inspector (Channel 5), “The Blue Inn, Redditch,” which aired 2016-06-01. Wikipedia's list of episodes and the TVmaze episode page both describe Alex Polizzi stepping in to mediate a dispute between the hotel's manager and its owner, who watched the manager through CCTV cameras from an office in Paris. TVmaze lists the episode at 60 minutes with a 9 p.m. slot and gives no detail about the inn's location or history.

Expedia lists a hotel on Far Moor Lane, Redditch B98 0SD, as The Hotel Rafiya, and Hotels.com lists Blue Inn among that property's earlier names. Hotels.com showed guest reviews dated between 31 March and 21 July 2026 and Expedia showed reviews dated 1 and 2 August 2026, some describing a clean, good-value budget hotel with easy parking and others saying it needed upkeep. TheTVDB's listing for The Hotel Inspector Returns shows a revisit episode, "The Blue Inn", airing 2017-09-08, and says that 18 months earlier Donna had been working more than 100 hours a week to run the hotel. No listing read names the current owner.

The episode The Hotel Inspector, Season 12

Episode 1
Aired
Title: The Blue Inn, Redditch · What was featured: A Redditch hotel whose owner watched the manager by CCTV from Paris

Synopsis (tvmaze.com) : Alex turns referee to solve a problem between a hotel manager and the owner, who monitors her every move on CCTV cameras from her office in Paris.

Also in Season 12 The Hotel Inspector

Season 12: 1 of 7 still open · 2 renamed, moved or under new owners

All 8 Season 12 episodes →

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Sources we checked 4 references

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Hotel_Inspector_episodes
  2. tvmaze.com https://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/803665/the-hotel-inspector-12x01-the-blue-inn-redditch
  3. expedia.com https://www.expedia.com/Redditch-Hotels-Blue-Inn-Redditch.h10167959.Hotel-Information
  4. uk.hotels.com https://uk.hotels.com/ho326374688/oyo-blue-inn-redditch-united-kingdom/
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