Alex Polizzi follows first-time hoteliers through the trials and successes of setting up their first business. Aine and Antony move their family from sunny Brighton to rugged windswept Orkney, where they take on renovating a rundown Victorian mansion as a B&B.

Keith and Zoe are fleeing their comfortable London lives for the sleepy Devon fishing village of Brixham, where they hope to convert a run-down B&B into a high-end boutique guest house.