as far as Gordon Ramsay shows go few have gotten to be as iconic as hotel hell there's
just something satisfying about seeing him fix up an awful place and so today we'll be taking
a look at some hotels from hotel hell and where they are now starting with brick hotel
so over the course of the series gordon has gone to quite a few historic hotels and there's a
good reason for that a lot of people think that just because a location is historic and iconic
it'll generate its own income and so don't really put in any effort and that's exactly what
the owner of the brick hotel newton pennsylvania thought bought by a therapist couple the varundas
and their son cj in 2006 the hotel had by the time gordon came to visit fallen into sickening
disrepair and well gordon tried his absolute best to repair the place using his signature style
and for a while it seemed to work by far the biggest issues with the hotel at the time were
the catastrophic level of disrepair that the hotel's building was suffering and secondly the
owners meddling with everything that happened in the hotel without any knowledge making actually
capable people unable to do their jobs and for a while after gordon's visit the owners tried to
remedy that stepping back whenever it was possible to allow their employees to do their job properly
and it worked just like gordon predicted it would however it was the second problem
namely the repair work turned out to be what killed the varunda business you see for months
after the whole debacle many customer reviews complained about the state of the building and
in response the owners always said there was a big renovation scheduled soon and for the longest time
it did look like it had happened but to offset the cost the management decided to up their charges
which was basically an axe in the foot for the entire business as a result of that decision
the online ratings of the place started to fall down both yelp and tripadvisor gave a generally
negative response and that prevented the hotel from getting the revenue it needed to stay afloat
causing it to be sold sometime before 2018. under the new owners the hotel seems to have
improved but only marginally with a newly renovated structure and under the name of
rocco's the establishment gets mixed reviews online moving on the next hotel on our list
suffered a painful fate as well but the ending was a lot different than that of the brick hotel
river rock inn on the show the river rock inn was as classic hotel hell as it gets it took one step
for gordon to see just how many things the place was doing wrong and the entirety of his stay was
dedicated to fixing the mistakes there the very first thing that stood out was the dated nature
of the place from old styled rooms and rustic decor however in the case of this particular inn
that was not so much endearing as it was scary and even if you ignore the aesthetic something
that definitely didn't help the place were the numerous bugs and cockroaches that were found all
over the floors and even more ghastly in the main bedrooms and just because the place couldn't get
more perfect the room Gordon was supposed to sleep in had bed sheets with visible stains on them
you see when the guest of honor at your hotel has to stay in a sleeping bag just because of
how disgusting the sheets are you're doing a lot of stuff wrong luckily however gordon managed to
get to the owners well enough that they ended up improving the hotel many times over in that
episode alone and just because the owner seems so painfully lonely gordon departs after giving the
owner the phone number of a woman now that's not nice and sweet but what happened to the business
well according to online sources the hotel was unable to stay afloat even after Ramsay's visit
for multiple reasons including but not limited to simply losing too much money trying to get on its
feet however we promised a different ending because we actually have good news this time
the river rock inn was reopened under the new name of laurel country inn
and even better has the same owners running it one place that definitely did not get a happy
existence let alone a happy ending however is the next pick on our list the lakeview hotel
up until now the hotels we've shown had owners that were incompetent and ignorant at worst and
at least had the good sense to at least listen to gordon to mixed results however the owners of the
lakeview brent and anthony mcdonald were strongly outside that category of reasonable people
you see the lakeview hotel is supposed to be an adult only hotel restaurant as well as an ice
cream parlor situated on lake chilon in washington and while having the locational benefit of being
literally on the lakeside would automatically improve the possibility of a successful business
the behavior of the owners made running the place an absolute disaster according to the
management on an average month the hotel cost the owners around thirty thousand dollars in loss
and so with numbers like that it's no wonder that they had to ask gordon to do his magic
that being said unfortunately for the hotel whatever advice gordon had for them went down
the drain faster than their own savings because it took practically no time for them to go back
to the exact same behaviors that got them there in the first place in fact according to reports
the behavior of brent in particular got markedly worse after the visit with him growing distant
from the locality preventing whatever business did once take place there from ever growing and
with that bad reputation came even greater losses resulting in the vast majority of the employees
there getting laid off now that's really bad on its own but what makes the case of this hotel so
damn bad is not just his behavior as a business but the attitude the owner developed towards the
people that helped his establishment because brent had gone in to accuse the show of outright staging
much of what was shown in the episode and even more damningly he claimed that he followed all
of gordon's advice down to every last detail and yet the hotel still failed claiming that
he changed the hotel's name and changed the menu just like gordon asked but it didn't do anything
and just if that wasn't selling his story enough he ended that accusation with the revelation that
in fact everything he did on the show was an act because apparently he knew that they wanted drama
listen pal i don't know what you consider drama but what you're doing right now is a lot more
dramatic than anything you did live monticello hotel last but certainly not least we have the
case of the monticello hotel one of longview washington's oldest establishments which for
years had suffered under the ownership of a serial alcoholic with a dui and well it looked like cars
weren't the only thing he struggled with driving because when gordon came on the hotel was a mess
immediately noticing the abhorrently high prices and the awful rooms gordon sat down to fix this
local classic from implementing a new and improved menu to putting actual room service in place
and giving the rooms and the halls a major facelift the work gordon put into the place
was spectacular and as you can imagine so were the results it seemed that overnight the hotel
had transformed into an alternate universe version of itself the guests surged in and for the first
time in its recent history the establishment looked like it could work and while many may
chalk that up to gordon himself fiddling in for a day to make a place shiny for dramatic effect
at least in the case of the monticello the effect seemed to last not only did the establishment
continue to stay in business but from some of the reports that we have heard that behavior
has continued till well after the series in fact it's been said that the owners managed to renovate
the place properly and we don't have to remind you that that is an expensive thing to do so we
can only assume that the hotel has maintained decent profits to have been able to pull off
something like that and well those are just a few of the hotels that got featured on one of
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