This is thanks in large part to Serena, who - as she loves to mention - is in the top one percent of reviewers on TripAdvisor, whatever that means. Group 2 wastes no time before devolving into some truly petty drama that could give several Bravolebrities inferiority complexes. However, it didn't take long before I realized there would be no pretension of civility in the second half of the season. Watching this low-stakes, high drama train wreck with glee, I couldn't wait to see the slow dissolution of politeness occur again in the second group of contestants. Most couples try to keep the hosting pair's feelings in mind, but as the season goes on, some of the guests - namely Babe, Bondi, Brent and Leroy - start getting crueler and crueler, culminating in cutting digs like calling one instant hotel a "mausoleum of the mundane" and saying another's decor "looks like lipstick on a gorilla." And this is only scratching the surface of the casual savageries being tossed around. While the individual rating each couple gives the instant hotels are kept secret, brief reviews written by the contestants about their stays are read aloud at the end of each episode.
Throughout the first group's five-episode journey together, the pettiness grows until it begins to be reflected in the team's scores for one another - and their reviews. But it doesn't take long before a rivalry between mother-daughter duo Babe and Bondi - who make their grand entrance on the show by driving their car into a ditch - and Brent and Leroy - who are literally (and accurately) labeled as the "fussy couple" in their chyron - derails the tenuous sportsmanship and leads to a feud greater than Kanye and Taylor, Bette and Joan or Azealia Banks and pretty much anyone.
When you start Instant Hotel, you're introduced to the first group of contestants who do their best in the beginning to maintain a façade of civility. (And no, I'm not making this last part up.) At the end of each round, all these scores are tallied together and the winner moves on to the grand finale where they will face off against the winner of the other round for the chance to score an all-expenses paid trip to California to stay in Leonardo DiCaprio 's instant hotel. There's also a hospitality expert, Juliet Ashworth, who scores each instant hotel as well and basically acts as the voice of reason of the series. In turn, whichever team is hosting the couples that week then gets to score them on how they did as guests (were they clean, did they check out on time, etc.).
Each of the four guest couples give the instant hotel a rating out of 10 based on the house, location/local attractions, the quality of their night's sleep and value for money. The premise of the show is fairly simple: Five teams of two take turns spending the night in one another's "instant hotels," aka their short-term vacation rentals (the first season is split up into two rounds, each with a groups of five pairs).
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But it didn't take long for me to realize that not only is Instant Hotel one of the best in the genre the service has to offer, it's also one of the messiest, pettiest unscripted series I have ever had the pleasure of watching. I have tried a lot of home and real estate shows on Netflix and let me tell you, not all of them are winners. When I started Netflix's Australian import Instant Hotel - after the streaming service numbed me into submission by auto-playing the trailer for it every night when I went to pull up Schitt's Creek - I really had no idea what to expect.
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