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The Imperial Hotel Torquay

Adverts and affiliate links appear on this page. If you use the link to buy the product you won’t pay any extra, you may even pay less, and I may get a commission. Further details of adverts and affiliate links can be found  here . We really enjoyed our visit to Cornwall last year so we decided to return this year via Devon.  My wife had been to Paignton on holiday a few times and I had been there once but that was over 40 year’s ago. Neither of us had been to Torquay, but we decided to start our holiday in Torquay mainly because of our love of Fawlty Towers. After we booked we found out that, although Fawlty Towers is set in Torquay, it was actually filmed at Wooburn Grange Country Club in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire.  It caught fire in 1991 and has since been demolished. W e booked into the Imperial Hotel in Torquay for three nights. Although not very impressive on the outside, the interior of the Imperial Hotel still contains the grandeur of a bygone age. T...