When she discovers that her father is planning to sell the hotel to Gil, Skye becomes upset as she has developed an emotional attachment to it.
Skye calls Josh, who encourages her to flirt with Sean, until she learns he has a girlfriend, Danielle, who is filming for a reality series.
Skye visits her dead mother's favourite place, where she discovers her initials alongside "SJ".
Skye offers Sean a job at the North Star to help him pay for his mountain biking competitions.
To see which girl Ben likes more, when Ana falls in, Danielle pushes Skye into the water.
Noah, Kaylee and Lori also find a secret room below the lodge, which leads to a pathway to Skye's mum's favourite place.
Kaylee and Noah host auditions for a singer to perform at the North Star's concert, where they find Oz.
Ben sees Skye and Sean hug during a pizza night at the lodge, and Danielle discovers that Gil and Olivia plan on turning the North Star into apartments.
Skye, Noah, Kaylee, Sean and Oz go on a camping trip, which Ben and Danielle crash.
When Skye returns from the camping trip, she finds Kyle and Aaron spying on her, who reveal that their boss is "SJ", Samuel James.
Skye meets Samuel, who explains that her grandfather forbid her mother from dating him due to a fire at the lodge.
Josh begins hosting Live at the Lodge, a reality series controlled by and based on the people at the North Star.
Kaylee leaves for music school, and struggles to make friends, until fellow student Frankie approaches her.
Gil arrives at the lodge and explains that he went above Olivia and reported Skye for not having a live music licence, and presents her with a choice: pay the fine, or sell the North Star to him.
Trapped in the cave, Danielle and Ben leave a voicemail for Sean, who comes with Skye to rescue them.
Alex overhears Ed talking to Gil about the potential sale, and when Josh pressures her for gossip on camera, she blurts out about the North Star being sold.
Ben and Noah search the room of a man believing he is behind the phone number, but when Skye confronts him, he explains that he works for the council, and stays at the North Star annually to check on the rare species of bats in the loft.
Kaylee visits Noah and the group, and phones Rebecca to tell her that she cannot use Frankie's version of "Watch Me".
Skye calls the number and when Alex answers, she explains that the map and phone belonged to her grandfather.
Gil arranges to tear down the North Star with a bulldozer, and when Skye finds out, she locks herself in one of the bedrooms.
The council worker arrives at the lodge and enforces a ban on demolishing it, due to a protection being placed on the rare species of bat in the loft.
Gil hears that Live at the Lodge has won an award, and invites Skye to accept it at an event.
A clue takes Danielle, Alex and Skye up to the loft of the North Star, where they find a painting.
Frankie assures Noah that she will tell the audience about "Watch Me" being stolen from Kaylee, but she performs the song as planned.
In July 2015, Disney Channel UK gave the green light for the production of the series The Lodge, which had the working title of North Star.
[22][23] The Lodge features the first coming out scene in a Disney Channel series: in a 2017 episode, Josh (Joshua Sinclair-Evans) mentions that girls aren't his type.
[24][25] The pilot episode of The Lodge, "The New Girl", was released online in the UK on 8 September 2016, more than two weeks before its television premiere.