Fawlty Towers Christmas Weekend

Fawlty Towers Christmas Weekend is coming to the Holiday Inn Nottingham on Saturday 12 December, and it's not just a show you watch and leave. It's a full weekend stay, so you're checking in on the Saturday and staying through until Sunday morning. If you've spent any time with the original series, you know the setup: Basil Fawlty, the high-strung manager of a seaside guest house, desperately trying to keep things running while everything around him falls apart. This puts you right in the middle of it, rather than watching from the sofa.

The whole thing is built around the show's signature chaos. The comedy comes from the gap between how Basil wants the hotel to be run—stiff, proper, and perfectly managed—and the reality of the guests, the staff, and the general mayhem that follows him. It's that same frantic energy that made the show a classic, played out across a proper hotel weekend instead of a half-hour episode.

Because it's a stay, you're not just there for a single performance. You'll be in the hotel from Saturday afternoon through to Sunday morning, so the Fawlty Towers experience stretches across the whole visit. It's a bit of a departure from your usual night out in the city—more of a getaway than a gig.

It runs from 14:00 on Saturday 12 December to 11:00 on Sunday 13 December at the Holiday Inn Nottingham, on Castle Bridge Road (NG7 1GX). The price is £295 for two guests for the weekend in a twin or double room.