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IrelandGeorge Clarkey's hotel test starts with a surprisingly spacious Shoebox
His shrinking-room challenge pairs hotel reviews with museum souvenirs, a zoo visit and a homemade scoring system.
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Every Day the Hotel Gets Smaller
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- 0:36George checks into The Hoxton's smallest room, named The Shoebox.
- 3:15A British Museum visit ends with a frog souvenir print.
- 11:03The next stay takes him to a smaller room at Gatwick's YotelAIR.
- 15:33With the airport restaurant closed, George takes convenience-store food back to his room.
- 18:27A capsule hostel introduces a WhatsApp-based self-check-in puzzle.
George Clarkey gives The Hoxton's smallest room an unexpectedly generous first impression: "The Shoebox, which, dare I say, is quite spacious." There are smaller beds ahead, but his hotel experiment isn't simply about squeezing himself into increasingly confined spaces.
In "Every Day the Hotel Gets Smaller", each stop comes with three jobs: sleep, find something to eat and become a tourist. The British Museum supplies a frog souvenir; Tilgate Zoo supplies an owl call. At Gatwick's YotelAIR, a closed restaurant means convenience-store food back in the room. The video also includes a sponsored Vinted segment.
Then there is "The George Scale", his self-described, freshly invented measure of comfort, use of space and value. The airport room earns a higher overall score than The Hoxton despite an uncomfortable night's sleep, a useful wrinkle in the question of whether smaller necessarily means worse.
His only upload this week has reached nearly 480,000 views and accounts for almost half the channel's current daily viewing. Viewers are also connecting the dollhouse introduction to his earlier preparations, while one shares a family memory of buying the same museum frog print.
The audience grew by 3,000 subscribers across the week. Among nearby challenge channels, JakeTheJuice had a much busier viewing week, while Almost Family Friendly recorded a similar subscriber gain to George.
Behind the hotels, "We Judged our Own Talent Show 2", featuring Arthur Hill, ArthurTV and ChrisMD, remains his next busiest video. Even the trained-versus-untrained marathon experiment from months ago continues to bring in views.
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the dedication to build the dollhouse just for the intro is amazing, but it turned out so good too!
@eylafalrabaieSee it on YouTube4:55 haha my dad bought the exact same piece from the british museum for the exact same reason. silly grumpy frog watches me and my family have dinner every night
@cam02123See it on YouTubei love how honest he is when he leaves his camera somewhere n has to get it back 💀💀
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I love that George's videos have a nice conclusion at the end! Always my favourite bit of the video ♥
@connieeeeee-09See it on YouTubeohhh this is what you needed the doll house for😭😭
@ellie_warrennSee it on YouTubethe start is giving hereditary
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- Subscribers
- 737,000 ▲ 3,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 870,591
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- October 31, 2026
- Video views so far
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- Views on its first day
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Which animal appears on George's British Museum souvenir print?
George buys a frog print during his British Museum visit.