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Is Sandy Shore Motel Still Open? Hotel Impossible Update (Westerly, RI)

Hotel Impossible, Season 7 Westerly, Rhode Island

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Sandy Shore Motel is listed open on Tripadvisor, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: TripAdvisor and the motel's own Facebook page show Sandy Shore Motel as a currently bookable oceanfront property, while a direct site check on 2026-09-09 returned an HTTP 403 error. How we decide a status →

What happened after Hotel Impossible?

Hotel Impossible, the Travel Channel series hosted by Anthony Melchiorri, featured Sandy Shore Motel in the Misquamicut section of Westerly, Rhode Island, on season 7, episode 2, titled 'Futility Closet,' which aired 2016-04-25. The show's format brings a hospitality consultant to independently owned motels and hotels to address operational and guest-experience problems, and this episode covered the family-run, oceanfront motel near Misquamicut State Beach. In the decade since, Sandy Shore Motel has continued marketing itself under the same name at 149 Atlantic Ave. A direct check of the motel's own website, sandyshore.com, on 2026-09-09 returned an HTTP 403 error, preventing a review of its current homepage content.

TripAdvisor's listing for Sandy Shore Motel describes it as a currently bookable property, and the motel's Facebook page, facebook.com/SandyShoreRI, remains live with recent activity as of the same date. Google Places' business record for the motel lists it as operational. No news coverage, ownership change, closure notice, or legal action involving the property was found. The motel's rooms are marketed as ocean-view accommodations with kitchenette suites available for families, according to current third-party travel listings. No secondary independent news source was located to further corroborate the property's current operating status beyond these travel listings.

The episode Hotel Impossible, Season 7

Episode 2
Aired
Title: Futility Closet · What was featured: Oceanfront family motel, hospitality turnaround episode

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Tripadvisor https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g54096-d277440-Reviews-Sandy_Shore_Motel-Misquamicut_Westerly_Washington_County_Rhode_Island.html
  2. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SandyShoreRI/
  3. sandyshore.com http://sandyshore.com/
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