The Lord Nelson — Restaurant in South Hams

CONSTANTLY HAVING TO WAIT AT THE BAR AS THE LANDLORD IS UPSTAIRS.

You’d think that going for a beer on a bank holiday Sunday afternoon would be an enjoyable experience, not at this place.

Our family have been visiting this pub for around 60+ years and the new current management are as bad as they get.

Dirty floors, tables that haven’t been cleaned (despite the pub being empty when we arrived) and the landlord constantly going upstairs after / between serving were just a few of the bugbears. The negative approach of the manager / landlord makes you feel like you’d be better off spending your time watching paint dry.

They have an alarm which goes off every 30 minutes to remind them to check the toilets and at one point this was going off for over 3&1/2 mins. Oh they’ve also removed the wifi too.

This place used to be the place to be, to watch football in Totnes with a super atmosphere, today it felt like a graveyard.

UPDATE: it transpires the man behind the bar who kept going upstairs isn’t even...

Not at all a nice pub if you're young and only go out once in a blue moon. This pub is full of halfwits and idiots not a place to go to on a Friday or Saturday night. There's always someone kicking off towards the end of the night and it's basically a place for all the drunk and the undesirables to go too... stick with other pubs in totnes that are much nicer and friendly compared to this... The bay horse is a fantastic pub live music friendly staff and even there customers are nice.. prices of drink maybe more but still better than the Nelson which caters for the lowlifes of society......

Next door to this little pub is the royal 7 stars hotel, a double vodka and tonic with a large wine will cost £22! So when we went in here and got the same round for £10 we thought we would stay for a couple of hours. However the jukebox is situated in a corner next to the bar and the locals corner it off and take charge of music for the whole pub. His is ok if you like pantera and thrash metal music, very loud and after half an hour my wife and I left due to bleeding from our ears! It’s a shame because it seemed like a...