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insight channel for today's video we're going to discuss even more hotels 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 applegate river lodge open shut up both of you him he hates me listen what
would you like me to do i want to see you grow up and turn into a real man i want to see you
in season two Gordon Ramsay traveled to the beautiful applegate river lodge in applegate
oregon the lodge was run by owners richard and joanna davis and was built in 1991. Ramsay's first
impression of the lodge was that it was stunning but the management was letting the place down
that is beautiful my goodness me he entered the lodge to find no one manning the front desk
and when he went to the back office he found richard and a jar of something suspicious
that was supposed to be basil leaves however richard could not fool the
famous chef's nose as he detected that it was marijuana aka weed is this cannabis
yes what i could smell the minute i came in here yeah strange smells would continue to
be a theme of Ramsay's stay at the lodge he was assigned the cattlemen's room and due to its name
it smelled like cattle not only that but there were mysterious stains on the carpet both dead
and alive insects strewn about and the bed cover looked like it was from the 1970s the lodge was a
million dollars in debt and the couple was losing five thousand to fifteen thousand dollars a month
worse off joanna davis was doing all the work her husband richard who also called himself pub butt
was a useless chain smoking raspy voice having fat man her sons dusty and duke were not very
helpful either they stood to inherit the lodge but they seemed to have picked up their father's bad
habits of smoking and chilling while their mother did all the work when was last time
i had a smoke way earlier this afternoon 20 minutes ago no no no this morning this morning
Ramsay was appalled by this and called a family meeting from which richard excused himself
since he did not want to talk about money matters richard was a useless squatter first of all you
don't understand what you're talking about you're talking business you're a businessman where's the
business i'm not a businessman and i don't try to teach people to be business people however there
was some good news as joanna and her boys agreed to work together you want this place to survive
you need to come together as a family and run this place as a proper family business for the makeover
Ramsay and his team brought in chairs for the lobby and created a new simpler menu he also went
to work on the outdoor area adding new luxury tent bedrooms and a new barbecue area he also
introduced a swanky online hotel management system how is applegate river lodge doing today the lodge
is still open although reviews are average on yelp it has three stars and on tripadvisor it has 3.5
from the reviews you can expect a beautiful lodge in a beautiful setting anything more than that and
you're on your own it seems plagued by the same problems Ramsay encountered the really negative
reviews say it is run by potheads and is a homeless camp by the river the more positive
reviews love the music the rustic rooms and the ambiance sounds like a haven for hippies according
to the 2021 spring edition of the local magazine apple gator the applegate river lodge is up for
sale joanna hopes to sell it to someone who would cherish the property and the community this was a
way of life a sanctuary for the community co-owner joanna davis said i'll only sell to someone
who will continue that legacy in the magazine interview joanna is glad that the show brought the
boys together even though it brought them mixed publicity she added that gordon treated her like
a queen joanna davis is now 71 years old and as of today the family still owns and operates the lodge
duke davis remarried in 2019 and still makes music this episode was filmed in june 2013. cambridge
hotel closed he's never run a business before no no and he's never done anything in his life but be
a lawyer and a soldier in season one of hotel hell gordon ramsay traveled to the stunning countryside
in upstate new york on a mission to save the failing cambridge hotel there he would find
owners and couple john and tina imhoff who along with other investors had bought and invested 1
million dollars into the hotel in 2007. they would however make losses year after year
fifty 350 dollars the first year and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the second year
five years later they were seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the hole
and were crying out for help ramsey answered their call and would arrive to find a hotel grand on the
outside but not so much on the inside he found his room decker particularly offensive the walls were
adorned with ghastly patterned wallpaper that should have come with a seizure warning also
a strange bar suggestive of bondage activities was hanging over his bed the beddings were rough
torn and had hair on them he would also discover that the hotel had lacked security with no night
porter and the main door was left unlocked in the middle of the night with the keys to every room
hanging openly in the reception area there's no night porter there's no security and then shock
horror i went behind the reception desk every one of your keys is hanging the hotel also had the
unsavory practice of hanging old black and white pictures of old long dead people on their walls
they advertised proudly that they were haunted by the ghost of alice a girl who died in 1913
at the tender age of four her pictures were prominently displayed near the reception
tina imhoff wife and co-owner was fed up with the hotel and expressed that it had become a sinkhole
that was taking all their money however john imhoff the military man was adamant that they
would sink every penny into the historic hotel ramsay was infuriated by the man's stubborn nature
john micro managed everything not letting the staff do anything without passing by him first
he also did not listen to his wife's ideas and had even resorted to borrowing money from his children
to save the hotel um our children our children your children yes yes shea has put about twenty
five thousand dollars on credit cards the food was also terrible cambridge hotel was
the birthplace of the paella mode pie served with ice cream but ramsay found the pie at the hotel
soggy and undercooked furthermore chef rich wilson had become fond of buying store-bought pork that
he would boil in plastic bags for customers you buy a store-bought frozen piece of pork
boiled in a bag and serve it to me stone cold in the center you're not even cooking john imhoff was
clearly in over his head and he received a verbal beatdown from Ramsay that helped knock some sense
into him the man was brought to tears when his daughter shir told him that the hotel had taken
over his life to the detriment of his family this intervention laid the path for Ramsay and his team
to spruce up the hotel he modernized the rooms and brought in 75 000 worth of new linen and towels as
he was leaving Ramsay promised to pay for prep chef scooter telford's culinary college fees
a review on yelp indicates that the food after Ramsay's visit was great they gave it three
stars enjoying the famous cambridge wings nine dollars flying pigs pulled pork twelve dollars
and the cambridge burger twelve dollars the makeover appeared to be successful at first
with a good flow of diner and guests coming in however that did not last as the hotel
was closed even before the episode was released for airing on tv in august 2012. according to
john the hotel was becoming profitable but their bank glenn falls national bank and trust company
refused to reinstate them at eight percent interest instead of the default 16 interest ramsey
kept his promise to scooter to pay his college tuition he attended the school of hotel culinary
arts and tourism at sccc his facebook page reveals that he's worked as a cook then a pest controller
and more recently works at family dance heating and cooling brittany thomas the general manager
went on to be a nurse john imhoff's daughter shia married the chef richard wilson about the
hotel's closure tina imhoff in june 2012 had this to say we just decided that with daughter shia and
hotel executive chef richard wilson married and starting their own family we didn't want to put
her in a precarious position john imhoff and his wife tina moved to guantanamo bay in cuba
after john accepted a job as an officer in charge of military commissions in 2012 imhop
said he accepted the job offer before knowing the bank would foreclose neither he nor his wife
expressed any regrets concerning appearing on hotel hell what happened to the cambridge hotel
the cambridge hotel closed its doors on june the 17th 2012 after the owners fell behind in mortgage
payments to the tune of 486 000 glenfalls national bank and trust company foreclosed on the property
in may 2012 making it the third time the cambridge hotel had been foreclosed on it had suffered
foreclosures in the mid-1990s 2005 and the most recent one in 2012. glen falls national bank and
trust ended up the sole bidder with a bid of 299 thousand dollars in an auction that took
place in fort edward the hotel was purchased in 2013 for 375 000 it is now the cambridge
assisted living residence for senior citizens curtis house inn closed look at that stairs
not again
in season two of hotel hell Gordon Ramsay visited the haunted curtis house inn an old country inn
built before 1736. it is the state's oldest inn and is located in the small town of woodbury
connecticut the hotel had been in the hardesty family for 60 years but a rivalry between the
fourth generation siblings chris and tj hardesty threatened to destroy the family legacy the
siblings were a hundred thousand dollars in debt and feared they would lose the family run in if
things didn't improve tj especially felt the need to keep it running for her father who used to run
the inn before passing away in 2012 and leaving it to them however with the two constantly at each
other's throats for the very same reason Ramsay would have his work cut out for him he arrived
to find himself as the only guest in the inn that day and was charged ten dollars an hour for
arriving earlier than the 3pm check-in time this dismal reception however did not discourage him
during his stay he took in the measure of the hotel and he found multiple wrong things
with the curtis house in one the bedroom was dusty and there was a footprint on his pillow
on top of that there were some rather large dead bugs on his windowsill two the kitchen
was unhygienic and chris both owner and chef was seen wiping plates with a dirty rag
you're wiping plates with this theirs was a kitchen with no standards the only fresh thing
they had were salads and french fries three the food the kitchen made was horrid ramsay's
calamari was limp and greasy and his burger was just as bad raw instead of medium rare 4. the
owners chris and tj were at each other's throats bickering and fighting constantly
she didn't know what you're talking about and she could drag her ass did i ever say anything five
it was haunted and the ghosts were not paying customers ramsay together with the sibling's
mother was able to reconcile the siblings and with the communication issues sorted
ramsay revamped the curtis inn he gave it a new decluttered lobby a new menu new rooms and even an
automated online system to record guest details securely what happened to the curtis house inn
this episode was filmed in may 2013 and after gordon's visit bookings for the inn increased
however after five years chris hardesty sold the inn for 650 000 in september 2018. the curtis
house inn had been in their family for 65 years after the 2018 sale the property was closed for
two months due to renovations it would reopen in june 2019 as the evergreen inn and tavern however
less than one year later it was sold yet again to bates walsh who renamed it the 1754 house the
name is a nod to when the landmark building was first used as an inn as the curtis house inn the
hotel had 3.5 stars on yelp guests loved the food and the historical building which they felt had
so much character as the evergreen inn customers praised the knowledge of the bartenders but the
food and service received mixed reviews though many did complain about the price the latest
reiteration has four stars on tripadvisor with most customers appreciating the ambience and
the delicious food similarly on yelp where it has 4.5 stars the 1754 house's beauty and charm
are a large part of the draw while the food is excellent heating hotel temporarily closed a chair
call 9-1-1 please quickly 9-1-1 for this hotel featured in season 1 gordon ramsay headed over
to the buzzing gaslamp quarter in san diego california where he'd been trying to revitalize
the keating hotel the keating hotel was owned by eddie ken a local property developer with more
money than style his sports car themed hotel featured what is probably the strangest and
least functional decor of the entire series even the prices were strange at 759 dollars a night
for that amount what ramsay got was an empty feeling soulless room with a bathtub in the
lounge space broken sockets plastic plants and gasoline tasting mouthwash if willy wonka was a
car he might have enjoyed this place and the food was horrendous too fancy a chocolate bacon pizza
well for that you'd have to walk out of the hotel and cross the street because the restaurant is not
in the hotel minor gripe the chocolate pizza as ramsay described it was omfg the brick chicken
was dry and to top it all off chef brian fainted as ramsay grilled him about the awful food keating
hotel was a travesty the staff were overworked the food was horrid and eddie was a cheapskate
owner who spent money on the things in the hotel that did not matter leaving customers with a bad
experience customers complained that between the bad smells inadequate cheap furnishings and the
lack of water for the jacuzzi the keating hotel was just not worth it for the renovation ramsey
signed up the hotel to a local linen company that would clean for them because eddie was using
domestic washing machines that were not suited for heavy duty use he also cut the menu to a third of
what it was and put a new decor a well thought out room design a less red reception and a new
suite with sofas how is keating hotel doing today the hotel has been closed since march 2020 due to
the kovid 19 pandemic their facebook page did state that they planned on reopening soon but
there have been no guests at the keating for the past two years its ratings on yelp and tripadvisor
indicate that it wasn't the worst place to spend a night with 3.5 stars on both sides
there didn't seem to be anything the keating did exceptionally well on top of that guests
complained of noise price gouging cleanliness issues and less than ideal facilities chef brian
best described the keating if anything works around here it's because of pure dumb luck well
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