What Happened to Sparkles Hotel After The Hotel Inspector? (Blackpool, UK)
Current status
As of October 2026, Sparkles Hotel has closed — confirmed via blackpoolgazette.co.uk, July 24, 2018.
Last verified
What the source shows: The Blackpool Gazette on 2018-07-24 named Sparkles Hotel on Station Road, South Shore, as a former hotel that had not traded and stood empty, with planning permission to be converted into flats, and tied it to the 2006 Hotel Inspector episode.
- Season / episode Season 2, Episode 4
- Original air date
- Address Station Road, Blackpool
Address
Station Road, Blackpool
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What happened after The Hotel Inspector?
Sparkles Hotel in Blackpool appeared in series 2 of The Hotel Inspector, in an episode aired 2006-07-27. Wikipedia's list of The Hotel Inspector episodes (read 2026-10-19) describes a children's-themed hotel run by a former teacher, which had cost more than £1 million to set up yet was short of guests despite a prime location. Ruth Watson was the inspector.
Web searches on the hotel name returned general Blackpool hotel directories and TV listings, and a Google Maps lookup returned Bromptons Hotel on Charnley Road, which nothing read connects to Sparkles.
The Blackpool Gazette reported on 24 July 2018 that the Blackpool Housing Company, set up by the council to buy defunct former guesthouses, had secured planning permission to convert the former Victoria and Sparkles hotels on Station Road in South Shore into nine flats and two maisonettes. According to the same article, the two four-storey hotels had not traded and had stood empty over recent years, and Sparkles Hotel had appeared on Channel 5's Hotel Inspector in 2006.
Featured on The Hotel Inspector
- Show
- The Hotel Inspector
- Original air date
- Episode title
- Sparkles Hotel
- What was featured
- Children's-themed Blackpool hotel that cost over £1 million but lacked guests
- Role
- Featured restaurant
- Name on the broadcast
- Sparkles Hotel
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Visit info
- Address
- Station Road, Blackpool
- Venue type
- hotel
- Official website
- None found
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Sources
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Hotel_Inspector_episodes
- blackpoolgazette.co.uk — https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/blackpool-tv-hotel-among-properties-to-be-converted-to-homes-1012006
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