# The hotel that inspired Fawlty Towers is saved from demolition **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hotel-that-inspired-fawlty-towers-is-saved-from-demolition/373540 "2006-09-21T10:28:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hotel-that-inspired-fawlty-towers-is-saved-from-demolition/373540/1 "2006-09-21T10:28:50Z")
[Link](http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,,20437802-10229,00.html?from=public_rss) It was to have been demolished but now it’s being transformed into a luxury hotel. ---
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hotel-that-inspired-fawlty-towers-is-saved-from-demolition/373540/2 "2006-09-21T10:56:49Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] it’s being transformed into a luxury hotel. [/QUOTE] Hehehe. I have visions of it being an ironic “luxury” hotel. Ritz salad and lashings of hot Screwdriver for breakfast. At £120 per night and 3 stars, it’s certainly not aiming at the top end of the market… [Online booking and everything…](http://www.centralr.com/Hotel_Gleneagles_Home.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hotel-that-inspired-fawlty-towers-is-saved-from-demolition/373540/3 "2006-09-21T12:57:23Z")
I’d like a room with a sea view. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hotel-that-inspired-fawlty-towers-is-saved-from-demolition/373540/4 "2006-09-21T13:13:11Z")
And I’d like the one with the view of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hotel-that-inspired-fawlty-towers-is-saved-from-demolition/373540/5 "2006-09-21T13:24:41Z")
Whatever you do don’t mention the war ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hotel-that-inspired-fawlty-towers-is-saved-from-demolition/373540/6 "2006-09-21T13:41:16Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] And I’d like the one with the view of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. [/QUOTE] Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the… ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hotel-that-inspired-fawlty-towers-is-saved-from-demolition/373540/7 "2006-09-21T14:22:24Z")
Can you get breakfast delivered to your room? With kippers? ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hotel-that-inspired-fawlty-towers-is-saved-from-demolition/373540/8 "2006-09-21T14:32:01Z")
Don’t mind the waiter, he’s from Barcelona. (In my dining room I have a Fawlty Towers teapot, shaped like the hotel, along with a little Basil Fawlty figurine whacking a little red car with a tree branch. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hotel-that-inspired-fawlty-towers-is-saved-from-demolition/373540/9 "2006-09-21T15:16:43Z")
I won’t be going there. The place is infested with Siberian Hamsters.