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|image=[[File:Count_Duckula_S01E15.jpg|thumb|300px]]

|production=

|producer(s)=

|story=

|script=[[John Broadhead]]<br>[[Joyce McAleer]]<br>[[Brian Trueman]]

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|imdbref=[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0769888 tt0769888]

|episode=S01E15

|airdate=13 December 1988

|previous_story=[[The Vampire Strikes Back]]

|next_story=[[The Hunchbudgie of Notre Dame]]

}}

=Summary=

[[Count Duckula]] decides to go on a holiday to a hotel called [[Hardluck Hotel (Building)|Hardluck Hotel]], though when he arrives, nothing is even close to his liking. The hotel itself is in terrible disrepair, the service is bad, and everything is rank and fetid.

To end this torment, Duckula goes straight to the [[Hotelier|hotel manager]] to check out, but as luck would have it, it has only just been revealed in the papers that [[Transylvanian drachmas]] (Duckula's currency) are now deemed worthless in the current market. Faced with this dilemma of not having one red cent to pay for his considerably short stay, Duckula is then forced to work as a hotel employee to pay off his debt.

To make matters the worst possible for this unfortunate Count, his servants, [[Nanny]] and [[Igor]] stop at this hotel for a vacation, and, not knowing that Duckula is himself, and not the staff, see fit to order the hapless young duck around and around. Change, however, may be on its way for the Count.

=Trivia=

The hotel manager is based upon the legendary British TV character Basil Fawlty, from Fawlty Towers. Fawlty, played by John Cleese, was also a hotel manager who was notorious for being rude to his own guests.

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