Wetherspoons Hotels , Has anyone stayed ?

[crawshawbooth]

Never done it , stayed in a couple of old inns this year ,both with one cask ale on

Has anyone stayed in a spoons hotel hopefully full of beer ?

[Not in Crawley]

Never have done but the one in Eastgate in Canterbury looks ok for a cheap stay in a pricey place. if you like your all english with the lads coming off motorway working shifts, its no different then from any Travellodge etc

Looks ok for what it is.

[Dr Faustus]

How high must them en suites be?

[Ani]

https://hotels.jdwetherspoon.com/hotels/george-hotel/
 

Stayed here a few times . Our offices were directly opposite, could see into the main meeting room from my bedroom.

Was fine, although there was a much better place just round the corner. Nice little place Bewdley. 

[Cheese]

Stayed in quite a few while working around the country pre-covid. They were always perfectly adequate. Without fail, we'd go down for breakfast at 7AM and there'd be 3 or 4 old blokes dotted about reading newspapers with a pint of bitter on the table.

[MancWanderer]

Stayed at one in Barrow. Was very good. No complaints at all

[gonzo]

1 hour ago, Cheese said:

Stayed in quite a few while working around the country pre-covid. They were always perfectly adequate. Without fail, we'd go down for breakfast at 7AM and there'd be 3 or 4 old blokes dotted about reading newspapers with a pint of bitter on the table.

I often wonder where your day goes after 4-5 pints and it's not even 11am.

 

[little whitt]

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

I often wonder where your day goes after 4-5 pints and it's not even 11am.

 

To Football 😂

[Ani]

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

I often wonder where your day goes after 4-5 pints and it's not even 11am.

 

We usually get off the train and head for a pub nearer the ground. 

[Dr Faustus]

2 hours ago, gonzo said:

I often wonder where your day goes after 4-5 pints and it's not even 11am.

 

The Griffin/Balmoral

[Bertie]

Not stayed there myself but got a mate who’s been to the Whitby one a few times - says it’s great.

[Sweep]

5 hours ago, Cheese said:

Stayed in quite a few while working around the country pre-covid. They were always perfectly adequate. Without fail, we'd go down for breakfast at 7AM and there'd be 3 or 4 old blokes dotted about reading newspapers with a pint of bitter on the table.

Brexit/Reform voters?

[Sweep]

The one near to me is supposed to be decent: Wetherspoon Hotels | Biggleswade | The Crown Hotel

The only issue that I've seen is when folk arrive at 8pm on a Friday night and try to check in (which is at the bar) - you can imagine, the place is fucking rammed and generally full of pissed up Reform voters, feral families and scrotes drinking jugs of cocktails.......and they're trying to check in and drag their suitcases through the bar and up 3 flights of stairs 😁

[gonzo]

2 hours ago, Ani said:

We usually get off the train and head for a pub nearer the ground. 

Aye obviously that's different. I meant the day to day ones.

I see them in the Station pub in town at 9am and various others.

They'll be surely drinking just to feel normal/not ill and stop shaking and stuff.

11am 4-5 pints in on a Monday morning. Where's the day heading there. 

It's one sad old way to live.

[Carlos]

Did the Dublin one, you could look out of the internal window and see how busy the bar was. Absolute quality.

[Cheese]

40 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Brexit/Reform voters?

Nailed on.

[Traf]

38 minutes ago, Sweep said:

drag their suitcases through the bar and up 3 flights of stairs 😁

just to go for a piss

[Sweep]

9 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Aye obviously that's different. I meant the day to day ones.

I see them in the Station pub in town at 9am and various others.

They'll be surely drinking just to feel normal/not ill and stop shaking and stuff.

 

It's one sad old way to live.

My Father-In-Law was an "functioning" alcoholic for years  -and he worked in Leatherhead, so he had a 60 mile drive to work around the M25. He'd have to have a couple of glasses of red in the morning (5am) so that he felt OK to drive. During the day, to prevent himself feeling shit, he used to drink little nips of Listerine, so he always had the alcohol, and it kept his breath minty fresh   -  He was perpetually in a state of trying to fight off a hangover, by remaining permanently pissed.

Anyway, he's not had a drink for 7 years now.

Looking back, and knowing what we do now, it's amazing how he didn't kill himself or anybody else. Some of the things he did when pissed were very funny though (well, they made me and my Brother-In-Law laugh......not my wife and Sister-In-Law so much though)

[Sweep]

6 minutes ago, Carlos said:

Did the Dublin one, you could look out of the internal window and see how busy the bar was. Absolute quality.

I bet that made some good viewing from 9:30pm onwards

[athywhite1958]

2 hours ago, Bertie said:

Not stayed there myself but got a mate who’s been to the Whitby one a few times - says it’s great.

A few of us have stayed there twice when watching Athy Colls played Whitby Town, decent gaffe

[dave2980]

4 hours ago, gonzo said:

I often wonder where your day goes after 4-5 pints and it's not even 11am.

 

I usually dump my case at the hotel and then go in search of a pub near the beach

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

Aye obviously that's different. I meant the day to day ones.

I see them in the Station pub in town at 9am and various others.

They'll be surely drinking just to feel normal/not ill and stop shaking and stuff.

11am 4-5 pints in on a Monday morning. Where's the day heading there. 

It's one sad old way to live.

To be fair, as far as I can tell they tend to just nurse a solitary pint for hours

[gonzo]

33 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

To be fair, as far as I can tell they tend to just nurse a solitary pint for hours

I see a bloke in the corner house in the deepest depths of Claremont who has pints of Stella with Pernodt and lemon chasers!

[Leyther_Matt]

Stayed in the one in Bridgend and it was spot on, albeit a good few years ago now

Lack of ones in EFL towns though 

[Burnden Pies]

My brother was very complimentary about the one in York