Sophie Simnett’s Skye arrives at the crumbling North Star hotel in County Down, guitar in hand, after her widowed father inherits the business. Between mountain-bike races on the estate’s trails and campfire ballads composed by Kaylee (Jade Alleyne) and DJ Noah (Jayden Revri), the staff compete in teen reality segments that bleed into a whodunit: who sabotaged the zip-line, who forged the guest ledger, and why does the caretaker’s key open every door? The answer lies beneath the hotel’s boathouse.
Series two widens the lens: Alex (Mia Jenkins), Skye’s cousin from London, arrives clutching a USB said to hold proof that North Star sits on disputed land, a plot that lets Disney Channel UK fold in real-time voting via the Red Button and a companion app where viewers picked the final song. Thomas Doherty’s Sean, once the brooding biker, is now front-of-house manager, juggling Danielle’s ambition and Ben’s jealousy while the soundtrack album cracked the UK iTunes top 20. Filmed at Montalto Estate and The Carriage Rooms, Ballynahinch, the show wraps with a bonfire performance of “Starting Over, Starting Now” and the hotel saved, if not quite solvent.
Production Details
Disney Channel / 2 Seasons / 25 Episodes / 2016
Created by: Michal Cooper Keren
Writer(s): Lee Walters
Producer(s): Raymond Lau
Main Cast
Sophie Simnett as Skye
Thomas Doherty as Sean James
Luke Newton as Ben Evans
Marybeth Havens as Danielle
Jade Alleyne as Kaylee
Jayden Revri as Noah
Mia Jenkins as Alex
Sarah Nauta as Lori
YUNGBLUD as Oz
Dove Cameron as Jess
Tom Hudson as Kyle
Ben Radcliffe as Max
