Hotel Adelphi - BBC - 1997 - Episode 1
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- Hotel Adelphi was a BBC "fly on the wall" production giving viewers a rare glimpse of life behind the scenes of the Britannia Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool. The series first aired 3 November 1997 on BBC1 with the first episode receiving viewing figures on 11 million. The series was narrated by Andrew Sachs.
In the first episode, it's the Grand National weekend - the busiest three days of the year for the Adelphi.
This was taken from a VHS of the original broadcast. I think it looks alright for 22 years old! - บันเทิง
I worked here from 1996-1998 had some great times here . Brings back memories alright . The amount of times I went to work pissed as a 16 year old 😂😂
ahha I went there for a xmas party in 1999 and there was a fit French barman called Cedric I had a dance with. His scouse colleagues were dancing with my mates and Eileen came storming onto the dancefloor somewhere between Mi Chico Latino and Moloko Sing It Back roaring 'stop fraternising with the guests' 🤣🤣
@@DesertHeat 😂😂😂 haha good times . The times I was pissed in that shithole and got away with it 😂😂
😀spill the beans- how was the kitchen hygiene and can you confirm whether it is haunted or not?
@@DesertHeat kitchen was actually clean from what I remember. In regards to it being haunted I don’t know but it wouldn’t fkn surprise me 😂😂👍
@@DesertHeat hahahaha I don’t recall who that was tbh I’ve slept a lot since then 😂😂
trying to throw someone out of a revolving door is pure slapstick.
Revolving doors are one of the most idiotic things ever invented.
@@jacobmassey3897 not really, without revolving doors we couldn’t have developed skyscrapers.
@@themadplotter I'm sure we would
@@jacobmassey3897 well basic engineering, look it up, they are bastards though.
Love it that my boyfriend is there in his younger days and featured quite a bit and he was 4 lbs over weight for Monday's national!
I worked there from 1996-1998 I was there when this was filmed 😊 good times
I remember the Adelphi got so much stick from the public when this programme aired. Here they were, cashing-in on what was essentially a crisis. Meanwhile, many locals opened their homes to stranded racegoers, offering their spare bedrooms or whatever they could.
The people of Liverpool were the real stars that weekend. The Adelphi just brought shame...
And the Adelphi is run by people from Liverpool....?
Absolutely. The auctioning of that last room was particularly spivy.
Enterprising though ngl
It’s a business though why wouldn’t you capitalise on it
Thanks for posting - was only taking about this series a few days back
Been working in this hotel recently and the rooms are absolutely disgusting
This place has massively gone down it's almost sad. They heyday has long gone.
So pleased you uploaded the videos. You wouldn't have the rest coming up by any chance?
RIP Brian Birchall - the duty manager as was. He passed on this year. Now urging people to
''Just cook will ya".
In the next life.
I used to love this, bonkers to think that pregnant girls kid is 25 or something now
Omg Gail Platt! Scary to think she's only about 35 in this, all the 90s Corrie cast looked so old for their age
I have some sympathy with the drunk guy at the end - you've booked a room, even presented yourself - albeit too early to have enter but nonetheless confirming you will be using the room - told to come back later then, upon coming back later told you in fact came back too late.
I agree. He definitely had a strong argument that he'd done what he could. Even if he didn't act like a total bellend he probably wouldn't have got anywhere but his approach to life doesn't help him at all!
I agree. When I book a room it’s booked they shouldn’t have given it away.
Protip: don’t get pissed out your brain and turn up on time
Appalling treatment. He should have sued them for assault. If it were me the Adelphi would have been fixing a couple of windows later 😊
@@rocky5755This ain’t America.
Eileen Downey is more scary than Norman Bates of Psycho.
The drunk man was right! Disgusting behaviour from staff selling off people’s rooms and hiking up prices!
yayyyyyyyyy found another one ...more please ....lol
I worked for Eileen in the late 90s as a chef in a hotel in Coventry, I don't mean to destroy her reputation but....she was really really nice and great to work for, I got on very well with her, Hope she's still OK.
U must be on about a different woman
@@joeylittle3535 exactly as I've heard she now works still with the chain, but a higher profile job and her arrogance is still there
@@MikeyManchester i worked there about 20 years ago on the bar and as a porter she was a cow
@@joeylittle3535 sorry to hear about that mate. I watched the Pontins issue on Watchdog with her against Anne Robinson. Annie soon shot her down
She seemed a rite cow
Loved this when it was on telly. Think it was the first fly-on-the-wall series I watched. The manager is great, she really cares.
Thanks for this its fun and I like the way the Manager handles things!
I’d be ashamed, price gouging over a terrorist threat. Wow, what have we become!?
Ahh I loved this! Thanks for uploading, anyone know where I can find the full series?
the reception girl's baby is now 24!!!!!!!!!!!!
didn’t she have a boy?
@@scottyunitedboy2925 her daughter is called Elis
Eileen Jr
The front of house manager suggesting her staff would mock a bomb threat - staff are trained on how to take bomb threat calls!!
The IRA couldn’t be arsed having to deal with Eileen
Not seen this before , quite interesting!!!
That receptionist was up Downeys ass.
do you have any other episodes? my Dad watched it all the time, he's now 85. My husband recorded over his precious old VHS. Ive been looking for a copy for years. very grateful for these two episode though. thankyou!
Not even 27 years ago and seems like another world
Nearly 27 years ago
Quick edit lol
Disgraceful price- gouging, taking advantage of an emergency situation in order to profit from the misery of others. Shame on the Adelphi!
Disposable hotel charging so much for people in a vulnerable situation that manageress very abrupt.
Could you PLEASE upload more Episodes!!!
Yes!!
The bloke made a valid point
When they said come back to check in later, I don't think they meant 9 1/2 hours later, pissed.
Exactly
😂😂😂 true
Gougers. And I've worked in hotels during the 80's and 90's.
And to add, that receptionist committed the mortal sin of front desk... taking it personally.
The way Aintree treated the jockies was atricious.
RIP Richard Whiteley
RIP. Two consonants and a vowel
95 quid a room imagine how much it is now
Right dive. Lol The wave bar.
Any more episodes?
That is Richard Whiteley in one of the clips
My question was answer, they do!
Made no friends for the City of Liverpool did they?
Ordinary people were opening their doors to folk and they made true friends for the City.
It’s business, not personal.
Rudest staff I’ve ever seen in a hotel disgusting charging £45 for a mattress .....and it’s filthy now ..
long live the 90s
It is a dive, but remember this from childhood so always stay there when in Liverpool. Paid £60 for my room last weekend
Friend of mine, choc Thornton the jockey dancing in the disco, also dicky Johnson
I was the women at the start dancing. not sure wa episode tho. could of been first 1 not sure. I was wearing white pants. I just got it up t show my granddaughter its not showing me tho. would of been 39 am 60 now. 🤭🤣
£95 for a single room in 1996 and the place was a shithole
I don’t think there was as much choice in those days either which pushed up the price of what was available.
@@salfordiandy4987 yes the hotel was filthy horrible place, most of the staff are horrible.
@SalfordiAndy I used to work there on the bar, all the receptionists had horrible attitudes
@@joeylittle3535what year did you work there I was there from 96-98 ?? Worked in Jenny’s
@@scouse_till_i_die I started in 2000, left near the end of 2001 god I miss them days
I have subscribed to your TH-cam channel
I would stay on a park bench in the summer months as long I seen the sights of Liverpool which I wanted to see in the first place I wouldn't give a foot where I slept you could always find a cafe for breakfast & the toilets for a wash
I went to Blackpool years ago and slept in the car because I couldn't find a B&B on my price range I could find plenty of B&Bs which were well expensive to my pocket I said f*** that I'd rather sleep in the car then pay that sort of money which I did
I would have thought it would be against health and safety rules to put the extra communal beds in the hall ?
Aye .. not a days,, not back then.
4:52 to you to me to me to you.....lol
Disgusting charging more when people need help.
They aren’t a charity
Fawlty Towers!
think i prefer Basil Fawlty to Eileen Downey!
Disgusting how they took advantage..why is the receiptionist haggling for someone to pay £250 ... thats repulsive and not funny
And yet... I'll bet you've used eBay?
Out of morbid curiosity I went for a coffee last year and was charged £3.50 for a cup of instant, no receipt so I do believe they pocket some themselves. The funny thing is the grand atrium area where me and my mate were drinking our vile instant coffee was full of people eating Mc D and takeaway Costa coffees, obviously don't have a strict policy and don't care about sales 😀
B-oo-k and other pronunciations are linked to 5th century southern German... Strange but true.
19-30 showing the man’s credit card details.
Wasn't the general manager Eileen Downey ob BBC watchdog?
th-cam.com/video/ivOxiS7dB9A/w-d-xo.html
_Let me tell you Anne_ , we are not going to do *_anything_* about the crispy carpets
Yes. Being arrogant and useless as usual. Anne tore a strip off that Downey woman.
What a stupid place to leave the key for the linen cupboard....why didn't they just hang it on a hook or behind reception ?
yees
Cute jockeys
oh shit yeh!!!!!!!!!!
I'm interested in the Adelphi from a much different angle , i.e..
The 1941 (Liverpool) Wartime Period. The... "Abelph !"...was a very Respectable Hotel. Open every night, etc, ... Regardless of the Air Raids /Falling Bombes /etc. Lots of "Hotty" , local, War Factory girls"...They flocked there, to meet-up with , the upper class, Soldiers, Sailors and Air Force Pilots, etc. It's popular Dance Band, Beautiful Dance floor, Comfy chairs, and slurpy Drinks, etc. They were Liverpool's best. If , for example ,YOU, were a junior war-officer type, and ,on leave, and ,looking for a Hot Chic, to BED ,with, ... All , before you eventually had to return back to your Unit/Ship/Bleny-Bomber/ thing,/etc. .. (and then also possible death etc.) ... Then The Adelphi was the best place to be ! PS. Above story stuff, is all in the Mini Series, that me and others, are presently developing. Don't hold your breath BUT don't miss it, either....
What year was this aired?
1997! 2 years before I was born🤯
Crikey!!! How the staff took advantage. Also that kitchen looked really run~down. Just hope that "hotel" Is no longer open!!!!
Its still open and looks exactly the same. Hasnt changed since the 90's......
Well it doesn't matter what the kitchen looks like it must have passed the health and safety exam off the council otherwise it wouldn't be in operation
Still open I was there on Sat and Sunday stayed it’s tired but it’s okay for the money and the main reception is the exact same and the big ball room looks great just needs a few quid spent on it .
The man should pay ed the room first
Do these women on reception work on commission or something!?
Hotel manageress a wicked woman !
6:02 now thats what you call cow eyes
What a ripp off and did this not contravene fire regulations
Shambles company...worked there before
David Griffiths I was outside the hotel a few months ago - looked a bit of a shit hole from the outside
i had worked in a hotel off and on for 18 years and you do have to put up with some vile people !
Especially the manageress who ran the Adelphi at the time ! I would have told her to stick the job ! ! !
Agreed 😂
Isn't eilean head of britannia hotels now?
Yes, I remember seeing her on watchdog
Had to deal with her back in those adelphi days, bloody woman gave us nightmares. Never paid invoices on time!
Now we know who to blame for the shit hotels owed by Brittania
She’s Director of Crispy Carpets and Stained Mattresses at Pontins
She was a cow
God the staff were horrible
The staff need to be like this dealing with close to 1000 drunken guests.
@@bradleyfowell9723 yes I hadn’t thought about that .
Eileen Downey is to the hotel is what Brian Clough to football.
No she wasn't i worked there she was a despicable human being
She's still arrogant even in her job she's now doing with Britannia Hotels customer liason or something
She's resourceful, effective and gets results... no wonder she's disliked by freeloaders and layabouts!
@@TomCro73fair point well made.
Mrs downey certainly told her staff she did or job she wd mess about
I'm confused how this woman still keeps getting work in the same field. It's obvious she's lousy at her job.
I can see they have the booking system "Lanmark Logistix". I have worked with that. 100 % DOS, but it could take a direct atomic war head hit and still run. :D LOL!
Yes rude customers also , I suppose all the staff are from Eastern Europe these days ?
I havw stayed at the britannia hotel in Scarborough (the grand) it wasn't that nice
TheClumsy Pineapple eh this tv programme is about the hotel in Liverpool 🤔
Classy Scouse birds lol
Been in the local paper again it's a s h I t h o l e 😫😫😫
..... I'll SECOND THAT!!
Phil Liverpool UK 🇬🇧
And the rooms there haven’t been decorated since!
Stayed there a few times with the National Holidays coach company would recommend it to anybody for the location that is I know it's a bit tired and it could do with updating but it's only somewhere to get your head down it's not as though you're going to spend 90% of your time in the hotel is it
it's Liverpool I've come to see not the hotel and it's cheap to see Liverpool
every time I've been there it's been well busy if it was a s*** hotel it wouldn't be busy
Scumbags cashing in
Supply and demand. Basic tenets of a market economy
So much for sympathy
Wow, the staff are absolutely horrible.
You mean they're not robots that will fawn over you and respond to your beck and call?
No, they're not. They're Scousers, they have personalities, and they're not paid enough to take crap from the likes of you!
@@TomCro73eh eh calm down calm down
Who on earth got that pregnant?
I bet eileen called in the bomb so she could get huge profits
the Adephi was a dump even in 1997 gosh.
Ive no idea why she makes me laugh if only she was the manager of britannia overall.she had very high standards
She was a cow
Shameless exploitation, ‘you’ll never sleep alone’
Horrible staff. Horrible hotel. Unless they've drastically improved their act they don't deserve a penny from any guests.
Shameful greed with contempt for customers.
Forgetful dairy workers be like 16:11
An offscreen video which has appalling quality. As for the Adelphi-it's a Britannia hotel, which is just about as bad as you can get in the UK.
It's the only chance we have to view it you fool. From me, I'm grateful to the uploader.
What do you expect it’s from 1997