Actors aside, <em>'Christmas Hotel'</em> doesn't have much going for it. That's not me saying the acting is amazing, of course, but I dug Tatyana Ali and Sean Patrick Thomas enough, their performances fall within the cheesy Xmas television flick remit. Sheryl Lee Ralph is the best of the rest. The rest of the film is lame, the plot is boring - not helped by how quickly the town's people switch their beliefs about the hotel itself.