

A confidence trickster comes to stay at the hotel, just after Basil has taken an ad in a posh magazine to upgrade the clientele.

The Fawltys take a holiday and leave Polly and Manuel to run the place just as O'Reilly's builders come to redo the lobby.

Basil wants 'none of that' going on in his rooms and suspects some guests and Polly of carrying on.

Some inspectors are in town and Basil gets paranoid, so he alternately fawns over and offends his guests.