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featured on hotel hell and reveal how they're doing now
so sit back relax and without further ado let's get right into the content guys beachfront in
and inlet closed the boss man caught it and where's the other half gone maybe they ate it
this episode from season three found Gordon Ramsay in fort pierce florida
where he would be staying at the beach front in an inlet in hopes of rescuing
the establishment the beachfront inn and inlet was opened by current owner brian paul in 2012
using money from his family's thriving fish market but three years later he ran into trouble
wow that's loud that music it is loud between noise complaints from guests lousy food a
rudderless doe-eyed owner and an incompetent chef who just didn't seem to care the inn was
floundering the inn's most egregious sin was the walk-in freezer whose contents were stored in a
manner of ripe for cross-contamination inside it Ramsay was shocked when he discovered a tub
of rotten festering pina colada moldy vegetables and to top it off raw chicken placed on top of
cooked chicken how what is that pina colada why it's like that i have no idea that's terrible
trash please ben the lazy and incompetent executive chef was responsible for this unsanitary
mess yet brian was too timid to discipline or fire the man later on in the show ramsay and his
team revamped the inn with two swanky new rooms a beach club and a smaller more manageable menu
in preparation for the final dinner service of the show in which the mayor would be present
but it was all for nothing brian's weak leadership was on full display during the
dinner service and the beachfront in and inlet would fall flat on its face the dinner was marred
by slow service and bad food which featured overdressed salad and overcooked dry chicken
chef ben further showed his incompetence by telling ramsay that the mayor had received
his food when he hadn't brian for his part went around looking like a deer in the headlights
later on ramsay would intercept some of chef ben's speciality overcooked chicken and asked
brian what he thought of it brian cluelessly replied he thought it was raw it was never
cooked even spotty is dry and you're saying it's raw let me tell you something and listen carefully
i'm going i'm packing my bags ramsay just lost all hope shook brian's hand and quit leaving doe
eyed brian looking confused as he held on to ben's plate of overcooked chicken how is the beachfront
inn and inlet doing this episode was filmed in october 2015 and four months after filming the
celebrity chef reported that brian had finally found it in him to fire the lazy executive chef
ben and hire all new kitchen staff brian stepped up even more and installed a nighttime curfew
allowing the hotel's guests to catch some peaceful sleep he even added new tiles and kitchenettes
on 12 of the inn's rooms new patio furniture and added a gift shop that sold co-branded navy seal
museum merchandise the reviews after hotel hell were mixed at best some guests still complained
of noise and music that bled till 2am at the night others found the rooms unclean the service poor
and the food bland the bathtubs were also grimy however the more positive reviews did
not seem to have such an awful time they liked the beachfront views and moderately enjoyed the food
the beachfront in an inlet was later sold to new owners in 2019 who rebranded it the sunrise sands
beach resort reviews on yelp and tripadvisor for the renamed sunrise sands beach resort are
decidedly awful with the inn having 2.5 stars on both sides customers say the rebranded hotel's
rooms are nasty and outdated with the beds and linen worn out the towels are paper thin rags
and there's decay and cleanliness issues everywhere the service is horrible and the
food equally is bad the new sunrise sands beach resort sounds more like a dingy motel that just
happens to be by the ocean at least brian seems happy because based on his facebook page he got
married on may the 29th 2020 to a beautiful wife town's in open oh my god look at all this stuff
if you thought the beachfront inn was terrible wait till you see the towns in
you will be gobsmacked for this horror show of a hotel gordon ramsay traveled to one of america's
most celebrated small towns harper's ferry in west virginia just 60 miles from washington dc
what he found there was one of the grossest examples of malpractice seen on hotel hell the
innkeeper karen townsend presented herself as a nutcase bent on denying every imperfection of her
hotel the kitchen was laughable as it contained five microwaves and two chefs is that the sports
bar are these tv screens what are those microwaves how many microwaves have you got well there's four
here and one in there that's five with the microwaves doing most of the heavy lifting
the kitchen idea of cooking was to reheat what was frozen while the unclean oven would consider
itself lucky when someone used it what's more the cook jeff was found boiling burger patties
topped with soggy cheese you're boiling a burger i'm just heating it back up when you say heating
it back up why are you cooking it from fresh we make them ahead of time this is what we got
here we don't a boiled burger imagine that soggy sad putrid construction on your plate
later on in the show chef Ramsay caught wind of a mummy fight chicken that was about to be prepared
for an unlucky guest it had been frozen for so long it was hard to believe they hadn't just
excavated some prehistoric bird this is the dish of the day it's our rotisserie chicken
it was roasted six months ago on the menu it's got rotisserie chicken yeah
buy them at a grocery store yes the michelin star chef was so appalled he took the chicken
and showed it to the guest because he felt that what karen was doing was so wrong as to be damn
near illegal head in the clouds karen continued to say that they have the best food in the area
people say that we we've got the best food in town in the friendship stop there now you're standing
slightly bizarre the best food in town karen must have been sniffing potions in her spare time
but Ramsay could not have been prepared for the travesty he'd encounter in his bedroom carpet
it was karen's diarrhea on his carpet he was traumatized i've just done a swab test anything
above 30 you're in the danger zone for unhygienic what do you think the reading is 50 50 60 70. 803.
when confronted karen shrugged the whole thing off saying that at least the room was clean gordon had
had enough of that dump while leaving he caught sight of karen's bedroom come office her bed was
a board covered in sheets and quilts this inspired some pity in gordon who went to find her son in an
effort to talk some sense into her once the three spoke together the celebrated chef cleaned up the
hotel decluttered the rooms and gave them a new look the kitchen was given a smaller menu to
work with and karen promised to keep the changes and not revert to her old filthy ways how is the
town's inn faring today this episode was filmed back in november 2015. after hotel hell karen kept
her word and her son jason became more involved with the business she also moved into a second
floor room at the town's inn today the townsend is doing well it has 3.5 stars on yelp 4 stars on
tripadvisor and 4.2 on expedia it even won a 2021 trip advisor traveller's choice award the comments
indicate that guests find it a charming homey quaint little place in a picturesque location
it seems popular with hikers and bikers and the guests who meet karen find her friendly
and welcoming even the negative reviews which complain of dust cobwebs the occasional saggy
bed or uneven renovations still say the staff is kind and the end charming enough to forgive
these missteps karen and her son jason really have turned the place around calumet in open
it is absolutely disgusting for this hotel hell episode from season two gordon ramsay headed
over to the historic calimed inn in pipestone minnesota the kalimed inn was built in 1887
and was owned by the smurkovsky sisters rina and vander at the time of filming their doting father
jim smurkovsky bought the hotel for his spoiled daughters who had no idea how to run a hotel
having no experience running a hotel did not stop the sisters from demoting the general manager
mandy thompson to the front desk they believed the staff were simply lazy and had nothing better to
do than collect unearned paychecks these two were so entitled even the parents decided to come back
and help run the hotel or watch their daughters piss it all away when ramsay arrived in his room
he was greeted by a room with colors and decor fit for a gypsy the room was cluttered and there was
mold in the refrigerator another room had stained wallpaper that ramsay thought had been peed on
despite the sisters owners blaming the staff ramsay would discover that they were lying
why is this hotel in such a state we have a lot of problems with the staff
it's so hard gordon to just repeat myself server jocelyn who had worked at the calumet for two
years revealed that the kitchen was understaffed with only two chefs the kitchen manager jennifer
disclosed that the menu was huge the size of the menu two cooks behind the line oh yeah ridiculous
i don't get it and the kitchen underfunded a factor that contributed to bad food
the food ramsay tasted was terrible the soup was burnt and disgusting while the fish was hard after
speaking to the sisters parents gordon advised the smurkovsky's to bring in new management or
sell the hotel to run the hotel for you or do you want to sell it or shut it down decision is yours
pretty soon the sisters revealed that they would step back from the hotel leaving mandy thompson
the demoted general manager to run the hotel Ramsay revamped the hotel giving the rooms a brand
new look he removed the hideous wallpaper and also painted the walls the rooms got new wardrobes new
mattresses cushions bedding and linen he also unveiled a new gym and new recipes provided by
reno and vanda's mother rita who happened to be a good cook with everything looking [ __ ] and span
everyone was happy and the sisters were scent packing how is the calumet in today this episode
was filmed in may 2013. after gordon's visit sales doubled however the smurkovsky family
would sell the calumet in in april 2016 to texas-based hermann bauer and chad mcmillan for
eight hundred thousand dollars the smokowskis had acquired it out of foreclosure in 2012
for 300 000 the new texan owners would however struggle to operate the hotel they gave it back
to the smokovsky sisters who would yet again sell it this time to tammy grubbs for 500 000
in march 2020 the city of pipestone condemned the building after failing to pass a fire inspection
tammy grubbs had run up nine violations after falling behind in repairs to the ancient building
it reopened in november 2020 and as of 2022 tammy grubbs still owns the calumet inn historic calumet
inn currently has four stars on tripadvisor 4.1 stars on facebook and 7.1 out of 10 on booking.com
guests rave about the great food and enjoy the historic hotel's antique dated look and feel
the staff are friendly and the service is great negative reviews point out that renovations are
still ongoing and one should not expect much in the way of modern amenities the calumet is an old
building requiring constant maintenance vienna in closed let me just have that on top put it right
in top what is all this bacon no no no okay i dropped it one shelf below instead of putting
where it belongs i put it on the corner vienna in was featured in season three of hotel hell
and had chef gordon ramsay head out to the small industrial town of southbridge massachusetts the
austrian themed inn and restaurant was owned and operated by husband and wife jonathan and
lisa crutch who had bought the property in 2000. the hotel's problems were many
lisa was a hoarder who had every cupboard and cabinet jam-packed with junk she even went so
far as to hoard her dead cat by stuffing it and placing it at the inn's entrance not a
good first impression at all jonathan who was both owner and chef was subservient to his wife
his food also wasn't up to snuff as he served ramsay some scallops that he thought looked like
they were chewed and spat out by a dog you just served me one of the worst lunches i've ever eaten
the kitchen was a cluttered mess and the fridge was disorganized with everything edible just
thrown in haphazardly ripe for cross-contamination the couple was dysfunctional and the staff
reported that the two frequently held screaming matches all over the inn much to the guests
annoyance on top of that lisa was abusive to the staff and made them buy their own 300
uniforms they even had to ask the couple for their salary because there was no payroll system if you
don't have an actual payroll system there's no payroll and then they'll say yeah i'll get you
one and you're just never asking for your salary yes we have to ask you when it came to the rooms
ramsay found the closet locked because lisa was storing her clothes in it she even had her
bedroom adjacent to his moreover the celebrated sheriff had had whispers around town that vienna
inn had a swingers hangout in the basement and let me tell you lisa seemed like the type
ramsey's investigations into the basement revealed an extensive wine collection and a mineral spa
i'm surprised it wasn't a full-on sex dungeon to renovate the end ramsey and his team brought
in a new hotel management system that could handle online bookings point of sale and payroll
he also gave the staff new uniforms and redesigned the menu ramsey left without installing the new
stove he'd wanted to because the engineer tasked to do so had found the kitchen to be
unsafe and almost illegal the whole cooking system had not been examined for 13 years
after gordon left the owners reverted back to their old ways they brought in some of their
old stuff and returned the 13 year old menu ramsay had replaced vienna inn never improved
where is the vienna in today this episode was filmed in november 2015. the vienna inn burned
down in november 2017 due to a large and intense three-alarm fire lisa and two others were inside
the hotel but they escaped unscathed according to fire chief mark defonso the vienna restaurant and
historic inn suffered an estimated fifty thousand to seventy five thousand dollars worth of damage
after the fire on november the 18th 2017 jonathan and lisa kraj posted on facebook that they would
be temporarily closed in the same post they shared that the fire had started in the parlor room and
spread with help from their clean linen it seems their fire detectors weren't working however just
months later on february the 7th 2018 the couple published their last post on the vienna restaurant
and historic in facebook page announcing the inn's closure after 16 wonderbar years when interviewed
by telegram.com in august 2016 before the inn burned down jonathan cratch said doing the show
was akin to making a deal with the devil despite this he did not regret the experience but then
again he also said that he hadn't watched the show in full and was not interested in a full viewing
because the show was staged to make them look bad jonathan was especially against the notion
that his kitchen was violating safety regulations the under siege owner said they had a 45 year old
stove with automatic gas shutoffs and suppression systems and he was glad that Ramsay didn't change
it he further alleged that Ramsay was only around for an hour the rest of it is you're
talking to him or he says something to the camera he's not here he's answering an interview you had
the editing room was very busy let's put it that way his daughter and employee amanda stratton
disputed the idea that her parents were oppressive owners she stated that she had even walked off
fox's filming because she felt the producers were only after scandal the vienna inn never reopened
after the fire while it was open reviews on yelp are strangely positive at 4.5 stars especially if
you compare it to the roasting they received on hotel hell guests loved the food and service with
comments praising the vienna restaurant's venus schnitzel wild boar and red cabbage
today jonathan and lisa cratch run a catering company called rangeley lakes region european
caterers in rangeley lakes maine they have glowing reviews and recommendations on google reviews well
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