Hotel Impossible · S4 E11
University Inn at Emory
Atlanta, Georgia
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
The short answer
Family-owned since 1971, near Emory University/Historic Druid Hills; official site directly fetched with live booking portal.
What happened on the show
Near Emory University in Atlanta's Druid Hills, the University Inn was a family-owned property operating since 1971, the kind of long-tenured independent that survives on university visitors, parents and medical-center traffic. The episode, Rat Race, pointed at a pest problem serious enough to headline the show, the sort of issue that can destroy a hotel's reputation overnight. A hotel tied to a university and hospital has a reliable customer base, but only if it delivers a clean, trustworthy stay, so a rodent problem strikes at the heart of the business. Melchiorri worked the rooms and the operation at 1767 North Decatur Road, pushing the longtime family owners to fix the conditions and modernize a property that had coasted on its location. His guidance aimed to protect a five-decade family business by bringing its standards back up to what its steady clientele expected.
After the cameras left
The University Inn is still serving the Emory area. As of our 2026 verification the family-owned property, operating since 1971, is open with a directly checked official site running a live booking portal, near Emory University and Historic Druid Hills. Its traveler-review profile runs to several hundred entries with a four-out-of-five average. More than fifty years in and a decade past the show's rat problem, the family business is still filling rooms. Confirmed operating as of 2026.
Location
1767 N Decatur Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30307
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Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.