Scots TV presenters Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan are returning to our screens with a brand new show after they bought a run down hotel on the remote Atlantic coast of Canada. The famous duo are best known for telling us how to decorate our homes so it will be interesting to see how they do this on a much bigger scale.
In the new four-part series, the pair attempt to give the hotel a head-to-toe overhaul and get to grips with running a hotel and a restaurant for the first time. They’ve got a tight schedule and budget to stick to but battling supply issues, a brutal Canadian winter and each other threatens their scheduled summer launch.
Colin and Justin moved to Toronto in Canada in 2008 and built a TV career there but during the pandemic, decided to take on the biggest gamble of their lives. They splashed out on the million-dollar, five-acre hotel just off the main tourist trail in Nova Scotia, on the remote Atlantic coast of Canada.
In this first episode of this new series, they leave their city life in Toronto for the wilds of the Eastern Seaboard to follow Justin’s dream of becoming hoteliers for the first time. Their first project is to get one of the guest suites designed and transformed so that they can set up a website to get bookings.
They also start work on the separate restaurant building in a corrugated shed.
They’ve got big plans to put floor to ceiling windows on the front of it and overhaul the inside. But they face huge problems getting supplies to this part of the world and as winter closes in, a storm floods the hotel. And they have to get to know the locals with their different ways of working and socialising including going to their first 'kitchen party'.
Faced with mounting bills, power cuts and delays, Colin questions the wisdom of their decision and their relationship is truly put to the test.
Colin & Justin’s Hotel Nightmare will air later this month on Channel 5.
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