'Ghastly Muzak, powdery scrambled eggs and infuriating toasters': A new 221-room hotel has opened off the Brighton seafront - but the Inspector is left disappointed...

'Ghastly Muzak, powdery scrambled eggs and infuriating toasters': A new 221-room hotel has opened off the Brighton seafront - but the Inspector is left disappointed...

The Inspector stays at the Maldron, which opened last month Rooms start from £80, but the hotel reviewer says you 'get what you pay for' READ MORE: You've been drinking Champagne all wrong! Here's how to do it By The Inspector Published: 08:59, 23 August 2024 | Updated: 09:00, 23 August 2024 e-mail View comments Catarina on reception is doing her best – but she’s all alone and busy on the telephone explaining the rate to a potential guest while several actual guests (including me) are waiting to check in. It’s not her fault, but you might think that a brand new hotel just off the Brighton seafront would do anything to avoid this sort of hiatus. The Maldron opened last month.

It has 221 rooms and is round the corner from The Grand Hotel, forever known as where Margaret Thatcher survived an IRA bomb attack. Catarina assigns me to a room on the fifth floor. All is well until I inspect the bathroom, which has dirty soapy water in the basin left by a previous guest.

It’s a blocked drain, so I go back down to Catarina, who gives me a different room on the second floor. The Inspector stayed at the Maldron, Brighton, a brand new hotel with 221 rooms, one of which is pictured here It’s functional, bereft of much imagination. There are kitsch prints on the wall, which do, at least, add some colour.

When I take.