Mark is just thinking of the poor people who are grateful for any shit they get.

Some of the comments on Trip Advisor are so funny, * you are waiting for Basil Fawlty to turn up* a lot are saying it was so funny and one of the best holidays they have had some are saying that the show has gone to Christians head and he flounces round the hotel and is quite rude

he was like that from the start of the very first series, sans over white teeth tho .. so I presume that is who he is. . another reason why I wouldn't want to go there..

I preferred the guy in the first Hotel series. .he lived in a caravan in the grounds with his dog

Thanks i've been trying to remember who was in the series

I can believe that ,he has certainly changed.

I did laugh when he told us that Brides claim he has such great vision and makes their wedding day so special.Did you see that wedding!some coloured ribbon and balloons all for 7 grand .

That woman in the back office seemed to have got to big for her boots this series as well, most the comments said that the staff were always outside smoking

She had to much to say for herself

I see Mark didn't turn it into a 'smoking'hotel but sold it .

THE Grosvenor Hotel in Torquay has been sold to Grand Hotel boss Keith Richardson in a deal worth around £1million.

Interest in the high-profile Belgrave Road business, featured in television series The Hotel, saw 2,200 inquiries when owner Mark Jenkins announced it was for sale last month.

It will now see a massive investment to bring it up to three star status with Mr Richardson promising: "I'll do what it takes."

The move has again be filmed for Channel 4 and will be screened next year in the second and final series of the programme. Mr Jenkins will be coming back as a 'host' at the hotel when the programme hits the airwaves.

Mr Richardson said: "There is the impression that people want to come to this hotel to see Mark.

"Mark is a lovely guy — he's honest, decent and hard working. How many people in his position would still be like that?

"Now he has left this hotel with no money and no job. He is trying to build a new future for himself as a one-man show. Good luck to him, but he's going to need some money to keep himself going.

"What I have said to him is that I will pay him decently to come back and be a host. We have a deal where he will come and just chat to our customers. Every time I have been here, the guests just want to meet Mark."

The building will be brought up to three-star status and work has already begun on marketing, said Mr Richardson.

The hotel has been using coach parties to fill the rooms, but there will be a deliberate move away from that under the Richardson Hotels umbrella.

Apart from Mr Jenkins, the entire staff, who were told about the news at the start of the week, will be kept on in their same roles.

Mr Richardson said: "Last time the programme aired, the phone didn't stop ringing. They are expecting more viewers this time around. Five million is ten per cent of the population who have seen this place.

"A package of things attracted me to the hotel. It's a Victorian building and I like them, I've been buying them since 1963 and have an affinity for them.

"We will be putting the prices up when we have improved the quality. They have lovely staff, who are anxious to move it forward."

Bettesworths handled the sale which saw 2,200 people interested, 560 brochures sent out and round the clock viewings.

Director Stephen Lofthouse said he was delighted to have helped the new owners.

He said: "We always planned on using a bit of the famousness of the Grosvenor as the marketing push and that worked. We instantly got a lot of serious people.

"Everyone we spoke to had seen it on the television. And everyone saw that as a positive. With any property that is being marketed as a business, all advertising is good advertising to some degree."

Grant Thornton were appointed administrators of Torquay-based Riviera Hotels LLP, the limited liability partnership set up by Mr Jenkins last year.

I do hope the new owners can promounce the name remembering the silent 'S'

I did read somewhere that Mark left owing a lot of money to suppliers, you'd think with the success of the show he would have had more bookings but it seems he was letting the rooms too cheaply just to make the hotel full

I always felt that he wasn't exactly a business whiz Aimee... his ideas always seem a bit off the wall

"We will be putting the prices up when we have improved the quality. They have lovely staff, who are anxious to move it forward."

Didn't see any evidence of staff being anxious to do anything but stand in the way of change on Sunday's show.

Watched the last series and had last weekends recorded. Watched about 15 mins of it last night and said eff this - wanna be an idiot, go right ahead ya fool.

Bump

I forgot about this last week 

Oops! he's got no plan B 

Oh FFS....you don't pronounce the S

evening... these guys chose the GroSvenor for comedy value? They'll not be disappointed

Yo! 

Pops in to see what everyone is talking about

That place looks lovely 

He never has!

I do not like this woman one bit, whatever her name is.

Ha Ha "foie gras I've seen it on Masterchef"

LOL! an upgrade for sausages 

She's never working class - she does F all!

The receptionist's a bit of an inverted snob isn't she?   A right mouthy one at that.

OMG pink flabby sausages for the plebs

So's he an all though 

She does nothing  for First Impressions either

Ain't that the truth!

If only she - and the other staff - realised that it's only his incompetence that is keeping them employed.  No one else would give them a job.

What a palava over sausages 

Filtered water for the dog... 

oh god, not house trained.   this is all we need

They surely wouldn't....layabouts the lot of them

And it doesn't drink tap water either

It's Mark's job to get involved I would have thought?

Especially when you've employed a bunch of incompetent gobshites.

It bloody would if I had it! 

Sells vodka shots part time?

Part time bar worker perhaps?  Who knows, it's all so glam.

And me...and it would learn what dog food is too