This week’s episode of Rock ‘n’ Roll Hotel was the last, and I miss it already. I might have to go and stay in Sanctum for a night or two just to see what’s going on there now the cameras have left.

But it was, as ever, a nail biter in as much as deadlines were yet again looming – not to mention paying guests – and the hotel was far from finished… again.

But, refusing to be daunted by the enormity of the crisis, Mark carried on making preparations for when – and at that point, if – the hotel opened, such as hiring a manager. Read more & comment »

This week’s episode was every bit as good as last week’s, if not better in fact. One of the major high points for me was a brief appearance by Huey Morgan from Fun Lovin’ Criminals, with whom I’d happily get whacked on Scooby snacks any old time. However, I digress…

The saga of the Hotel That May Never Be Finished continued and as Christmas faded away and the New Year dawned, the hotel doors were somewhere in Europe, as were the beds, and Mick, second in command of the project, looked like he wished he was likewise.

Kevin on the other hand, the overall boss of the building work, was cooler than a polar bear’s dangly bits, despite the fact that the hotel was still nowhere near completion and Mark was on the brink of tearing someone a new one. And I doubt any court in the land would’ve convicted him if they’d seen for themselves the agony of trying to achieve even one deadline… Read more & comment »

When I started watching this BBC show on Friday, I thought it was going to be something like Grand Designs infused with elements of The Apprentice; big ideas and much hiring, firing and yelling. And it was all those things, but there was something else – some magical component that made me actually interested to see how this all works out…

And I suspect it’s because of the charisma of the man at the centre of the whole shebang, Mark Fuller.

The programme follows Mark as he oversees – and in large part, finances – the building of a luxury hotel in London’s Soho. It’s to be a rock ‘n’ roll themed hotel for which no expense is to be spared in kitting every nook and cranny out with luxury and contemporary fixtures and fittings. And in Friday’s first outing of this show, the build was months behind schedule and the only light at the end of the tunnel was in fact a financial oncoming train… Read more & comment »