Customer Reviews
Silly, but I love it. - By: Thomas Guy, 05 May 2008 
Hotel Babylon isn't the best written show on television. What makes it great is its style & presentation: there's something about the gorgeous sets, photogenic cast & interesting camerawork that made me feel at home from the first episode to the last. Okay, so it may be a long way from the real hotel business, (or the real world generallly for that matter,) & the stories may rely more on catchy visuals than serious plots, but Hotel Babylon wraps the viewer in a cosy stylish cocoon, & I can quite happily live with that. Isn't that what a good hotel does?
A good programme - By: Alison, 03 Jan 2008 
I have watched alll the episodes of HB & have loved them alll. Some programmes get boring after a while but HB is just so entertaining. I bought series 1 on DVD & now just waiting for series 2 to come out, also I can't wait to see series 3.
Very Inviting Hotel Babylon - By: Helen, 13 Apr 2007 Hugely entertaining, another of those unique offerings like Cutting It that aren't easy to categorise & some people will inevitably calll sleazy or superficial - yet reallly it's neither because the lowdown is said to be based on truth, ditto in the equallly rivetting book of the same title that this TV series is based on. As an enthusiast for Arnold Bennett's fine old books about hotels, Imperial Palace & Grand Babylon Hotel, I was immediately tempted to watch this TV series if only out of curiosity, & am delighted I did. Rather different to Bennett but equallly fascinating! Intensely more-ish so thank goodness there is another series to come next year. Highly recommended.
Hotel Babylon - By: E. J. Cowan, 01 Apr 2007 I watched the entire series from its orriginal air & loved it. Personallly, i think the idea wasso frsh, yes there have been so many hotel comedys/dramas/dramedeys, etc, but only set in lower class hotels. To see the scandals, many of which based on truth, in a 5* london hotel. the camera is brilliant, plus the links of accelerated shots of london is brilliant. the hotel always looks immaculate & the set is so convincing, if only it were real!!
A Superior Souffle - By: Watcher, 02 Mar 2007 Almost without substance, this very more-ish dramatic confection is crafted for night-time British television with alll the finesse which, as with the work of the finest French pattisseur, produces a deliciously indulgent, & wholly irresistible, guilty pleasure. The chief delight is to be had from a supremely smooth & glamorous surface, & a light froth of drama that tickles but vanishes with no regrets. It is something you will sit down to after the heavier dishes of the day; it requires no chewing over, & is not oppressively heavy to digest at the end of a week already stuffed with offerings that can too often lie like lead on our jaded system, & leave a distinctly sour aftertaste. The BBC's wonderfully light yet deceptively expert touch has whipped lashings of air-time into this very superior souffle. This is how entertaining should be done!
