Gleneagles Hotel is a hotel in Torquay, the United Kingdom.[1] It opened in 1963. It is operated by Best Western. The building has 3 floors. It stands about 1.9 km from the centre of Torquay.[3]
Overview
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.
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History and building
The hotel opened in 1963. Its architecture is described as modern architecture. The building has 3 floors. [1]
Location
Measured in a straight line, the hotel is 1.9 km from the centre of Torquay. The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Exeter International Airport (EXT), about 31 km from the centre of Torquay.[4]
Other hotels within 1.5 km:
- Palace Hotel — 0.3 km
- Cliffside Cottage Hotel — 1.0 km
- Babbacombe Cliff Hotel — 1.1 km
- Bishop's Court Hotel — 1.1 km
- Coombe Court Hotel — 1.2 km
- The Robin Hill — 1.2 km
- Braddon Hall Hotel — 1.2 km
- Headland View B&B — 1.3 km
- Royal At Babbacombe — 1.3 km
- Coastal Waters — 1.4 km
See also
References
- ^ Gleneagles Hotel (Q15573130). Wikidata. CC0.
- ^ Gleneagles Hotel. Wikipedia. Text excerpted under CC BY-SA 4.0; revision of 2026-07-16.
- ^ Torquay (Q209055). Wikidata. CC0.
- ^ Airports. OurAirports. Public domain.
Facts as stated in Wikidata, read in October 2026.