Mr. Bean in Room 426

Mr. Bean decides to stay at the Queens Hotel for a bank holiday. He parks his Mini at the foot of the entrance stairs and fights with a bellboy over his suitcase, mistaking him for a thief, although he later trusts the bellboy with his steering wheel to move his Mini to a parking spot. As Bean checks in, a quiet man checks in as well and Bean tries to beat the man to his hotel room, but the man gets to the lift before him. In retaliation, Bean runs up the staircase and stops the lift on every floor. He almost succeeds in entering his room first, but struggles to unlock his door and the man ultimately enters his own room first.

Once inside his room, Bean starts toying with his new surroundings in several different ways, such as flicking the light switch on and off rapidly, making a call on the telephone, jumping on the bed, testing the remote control's signal range, and drilling holes in the wall to hang pictures. He then decides to have a bath, but realizes his room doesn't have a bathroom. Bean then hears running water in room 425 and learns that that room has an en suite bathroom. Once the man in room 425 leaves, he uses his drill to cut a giant hole in the bathroom wall. The vibration travels all the way to the lobby, prompting the manager to investigate. Just as he knocks on the door to Bean's room, the man in room 425 complains that he cannot get the door open. The manager futilely tries to turn the handle and apologizes to the man, suggesting that it may be jammed. It turns out that Bean has locked the door and is taking a bath. Once he is finished, he hides the hole with his wardrobe and the curtains in the bathroom.

At lunchtime, Bean tries to beat his neighbor to the dining room, only to find that the lift is out of order. He goes to take the stairs, but gets stuck behind a slow-moving elderly woman.[2] He climbs onto the opposite side of the banister to get past her, but ends up behind an equally slow-moving elderly man with two walking sticks (presumably the lady's husband). Now stuck between the two with insufficient space to repeat the same tactic, Bean is forced to go down slowly.

Once he reaches the restaurant, Bean cheats his way to the front of the queue and proceeds to take whatever food his neighbor is taking from the buffet, albeit double the quantity. He then sits down next to his neighbor and gluttonously eats whatever the neighbor is eating at a certain time. When the neighbor starts to eat his oysters, Bean gobbles all of them down, but the neighbor notices an odd smell coming from his oysters and asks the headwaiter about it. The headwaiter says that they have gone off and apologizes to the neighbor. Upon seeing this, Bean realizes in complete horror that he has just consumed rotten oysters.[3]

That night, Bean is feeling unwell with a high temperature and has a nightmare that involves the neighbor and the waiters laughing at him menacingly and forcing him to eat the rotten oysters. After waking up, he feels hot and removes his pyjamas. He is about to go back to sleep when he hears loud music coming from room 427. Forgetting he's got no clothes on, Bean goes outside, knocks on the door and shushes loudly. The music stops and he walks back to his room, but his door closes and locks itself, leaving him locked outside his room naked. He avoids being caught by a couple who have come back from a night out. He then runs for the stairs while covering himself with a fire extinguisher and several door signs (i.e., Private, Exit), but finds himself behind the same elderly lady there, so he goes back up and sneaks past another couple to the lift by crawling under the carpet.

Once the lift reaches the lobby, Bean sneaks into the manager's work space as the manager is talking to Danny La Rue, who is performing at the hotel. When the performer goes to give the audience an encore, the manager gives the porter the car keys and tells him to bring La Rue's trunk to his car. The manager goes back to his workspace and almost sees the suitcase moving several times, as Bean is hiding in it. The porter comes back and locks the suitcase, but drops it on the front steps as he is bringing it to the car. Mr. Bean then shows up at the counter in a sparkly gown, a wig, and lipstick, asking for the key to room 426. As the manager gets it, La Rue approaches Bean angrily and says to him, "Here, that's my frock," and yanks an earring off Bean's ear, causing Bean to cry out in pain.