Gleneagles Hotel, Torquay

The Gleneagles Hotel was a hotel in Torquay, Devon, England. The 41-bed establishment, which opened in the 1960s, was the inspiration for Fawlty Towers, a British situation comedy first broadcast in the mid-1970s. John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth were inspired to write the series after they had stayed at the hotel, where they witnessed the eccentric behaviour of its co-owner, Donald Sinclair, who ran the hotel with his wife Beatrice until they sold it in 1973. The hotel was later managed by Best Western. It closed in February 2015 and was replaced by retirement apartments.

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