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How do you spend 7m on a spoon!? Few chairs, cheap carpet and what else?
 
Kenny said:
Putting a Spoons Hotel in the rest of the building.
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Urgh. Stayed in one once as it was the only hotel i could find in some godforsaken spot. Rooms were actually pretty decent, but breakfast next day on the bar was awful. The smell of stale beer, plus the smell of those already on their first pint was not good at 8.30.
 
Fun fact, in the 90's, Spoons were offered the building (upstairs), for £250,000. They planned on doing the hotel then but for whatever reason the Brexit Barman backed out.
 
tredman said:
Urgh. Stayed in one once as it was the only hotel i could find in some godforsaken spot. Rooms were actually pretty decent, but breakfast next day on the bar was awful. The smell of stale beer, plus the smell of those already on their first pint was not good at 8.30.
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The Wolverhampton one isn't awful (though not having a particularly good sense of smell probably helps) - the drinkers tend to congregate in the area to the left of the bar at that time in the morning so going up the back to the right (where there is at least a modicum of natural light) makes sense. Don't eat in the other budget hotels (Brittania/Premier/Redwings) as they charge more than double the price of Wetherspoons for a cooked breakfast that is no better (if it's a weekday or Sunday match then will use Bethany's - though now I am aware of where the Portuguese place is might look at that for a different experience).

Suspect that Wetherspoons will be targeting the lower price end of the market so more rooms in the centre of town will help competition & hopefully keep prices down (have written off the Novotel of late as not been able to get a price I am prepared to pay for bed only for at least 18 months) - in that locality it won't need to be 5 star as the others clearly aren't. Premier Inn probably gives the most comfort though is a little further to walk back to (especially as they have now closed off the underpass under the station)
 
Parkins left foot said:
The Wolverhampton one isn't awful (though not having a particularly good sense of smell probably helps) - the drinkers tend to congregate in the area to the left of the bar at that time in the morning so going up the back to the right (where there is at least a modicum of natural light) makes sense. Don't eat in the other budget hotels (Brittania/Premier/Redwings) as they charge more than double the price of Wetherspoons for a cooked breakfast that is no better (if it's a weekday or Sunday match then will use Bethany's - though now I am aware of where the Portuguese place is might look at that for a different experience).

Suspect that Wetherspoons will be targeting the lower price end of the market so more rooms in the centre of town will help competition & hopefully keep prices down (have written off the Novotel of late as not been able to get a price I am prepared to pay for bed only for at least 18 months) - in that locality it won't need to be 5 star as the others clearly aren't. Premier Inn probably gives the most comfort though is a little further to walk back to (especially as they have now closed off the underpass under the station)
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My view of spoons hotels are slightly tarnished by walking to work past the one across from new st in Birmingham. It always dreadful in the morning, fags everywhere, smashed glass, wierd stains on the pavement. The one i stayed in down south wasn't even that cheap either.

Premier Inns are always pretty good i think, holiday Inn express is my favourite budget hotel, but don't there is one in Wolverhampton.
 
tredman said:
My view of spoons hotels are slightly tarnished by walking to work past the one across from new st in Birmingham. It always dreadful in the morning, fags everywhere, smashed glass, wierd stains on the pavement. The one i stayed in down south wasn't even that cheap either.

Premier Inns are always pretty good i think, holiday Inn express is my favourite budget hotel, but don't there is one in Wolverhampton.
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Is that the Briar Rose?

Stayed their once after a night out in Brum, not really a great marker for judging accommodation granted but the room actually seemed a lot better than I anticipated, didn't hang around for the breakfast experience though.
 
MARKakaJIM said:
Is that the Briar Rose?

Stayed their once after a night out in Brum, not really a great marker for judging accommodation granted but the room actually seemed a lot better than I anticipated, didn't hang around for the breakfast experience though.
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Yeah that's the one. I work up by Purnells at the top of that road. If the rooms are like the spoons i stayed in then I'm sure it's fine. It just always looks terribly grim outside early in the morning.
 
tredman said:
Yeah that's the one. I work up by Purnells at the top of that road. If the rooms are like the spoons i stayed in then I'm sure it's fine. It just always looks terribly grim outside early in the morning.
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I don't think I've ever been in there apart from that night to be fair, didn't even go for as much as a drink then either and then I made a pretty hasty escape in the morning heading for the tram to get to football. It did a job for us though as a cheap place to stay in the middle of town, and as said was pleasantly surprised by the standard of the room itself, not sure I'd be looking at their website to book anywhere away with the Mrs though.
 
MARKakaJIM said:
sure I'd be looking at their website to book anywhere away with the Mrs though.
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Might be worth it just for the look on her face when you arrived to check in at a wetherspoon's hotel.
 
Its neighbour, the old tavern O’Connells, closed around five years ago and the majority of the premises, apart from the pub, remains derelict.
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I would dispute the bolded part.

Darlo dragged me there after Chelsea. It's still irredeemably dismal on every level, but you now get some free Brexit propaganda which is quite spectacular.

Edit: It was only O'Connells for about a year (never went in there), it was O'Neills for a good 5-10 years before that and actually wasn't too bad.
 
Deutsch Wolf said:
I would dispute the bolded part.

Darlo dragged me there after Chelsea. It's still irredeemably dismal on every level, but you now get some free Brexit propaganda which is quite spectacular.
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I think that refers to the bar in O'Connells, don't it?
 
machin05 said:
I think that refers to the bar in O'Connells, don't it?
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I think Dan was talking about the state of the Wetherspoons bar and calling it the non derelict part is fake news
 
machin05 said:
I think that refers to the bar in O'Connells, don't it?
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I dunno, it's not brilliant writing, is it?!

The whole interior of Spoons needs ripping out and starting again. It's so bad. No natural light in about 60% of the pub, toilets down two flights of stairs (recipe for disaster), awful bar shape, table arrangements that are neither one thing nor the other, a couple of screens here and there that no-one can see properly, filthy carpets, abysmal decor. It's like an object lesson in how not to set a pub up and that's before we get on to how badly it is managed.

There are actually some passable Wetherspoons elsewhere in the country so it is possible to do it up to a 6/10 standard.

Kenny said:
I think Dan was talking about the state of the Wetherspoons bar and calling it the non derelict part is fake news
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Indeed, it's a complete shit tip. I actually think McGhees is better.
 
Deutsch Wolf said:
I dunno, it's not brilliant writing, is it?!

The whole interior of Spoons needs ripping out and starting again. It's so bad. No natural light in about 60% of the pub, toilets down two flights of stairs (recipe for disaster), awful bar shape, table arrangements that are neither one thing nor the other, a couple of screens here and there that no-one can see properly, filthy carpets, abysmal decor. It's like an object lesson in how not to set a pub up and that's before we get on to how badly it is managed.

There are actually some passable Wetherspoons elsewhere in the country so it is possible to do it up to a 6/10 standard.
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It reads really badly, but I guess now I've re-read it they are referring to the whole building as the premises and the "bar" is Wetherspoons.
 
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