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Correction: Manuel also has a room of his own. This would, using the logic in the correction below, bring the total to 27. Therefore, the original correction is correct and the number of rooms mentioned in the hotel inspector episode was a continuity error.

Correction: Sybil doesn't say the hotel has only 22 rooms; she says "22 rooms is the limit". She is talking about rooms available if any upper class people such as Basil is hoping for, ring up asking for rooms, ie she doesn't count rooms occupied by permanent residents. The Hotel Inspectors' "26 rooms" means all the hotel's guest rooms, so to the 22 we add on 3 for the Major, Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby, and one more room now available because Polly is no longer living in. (Note - in "Gourmet Night" Basil tells the ladies "You're supposed to be in your rooms", thus confirming they have separate rooms at this time, and in "The Germans" Polly states "I'm only here at mealtimes", confirming she has moved out.).

Correction: It is likely the Inspectors meant 26 rooms for guests - not counting Manuel's room nor Basil and Sybils'. However, Polly could've moved out by then (as we learn in The Germans), which would mean 26 rooms available for guests, even if three are occupied by long-term guests.