The Crown - JD Wetherspoon — Restaurant in Worcester

(Review resubmitted due to images not uploading)

Yet another visit to a different Wetherspoons branch - no 106.

A nice Wetherspoons pub, however as it is now the only one left in Worcester, after The Postal Order in Foregate St closed down, it is a rather busy pub! A bit of a mistake by Wetherspoons to be honest to leave a large City Centre such as Worcester with only one branch.

It is a long thin pub with a beer garden to the rear and an additional seating area upstairs, which I didn't know until I visited the Gents.

Managed to find a dirty table towards the back of the pub, which was eventually cleared.

Had to order at the Bar, as the EE mobile network signal is non-existent inside the pub, therefore the Wetherspoons app would not work, not even when I managed to connect to the Pub WiFi.

However as I had to order at the bar, when I returned, the table was occupied. A common issue when ordering at the bar.

Ordered a Vegetarian Breakfast and a Pint of Titanic Black Ice beer, which was on offer at £1.29 a pint.

Unfortunately service was quite slow, Had to chase up my order with a member of staff after a while, which then seemed to be forgotten about. Had to then chase up again, only to be advised it was a half hour wait for food! This was not advised when I ordered.

Breakfast arrived after half an hour and was lukewarm. Although I appeared to have received an extra piece of toast!

Not a bad pub, however Worcester really does need a second branch! As I've been finding elsewhere, cutting back to only one branch in a large area is a bit of a stupid mistake by the Wetherspoons Senior Management. Some areas have a Wetherspoons pub that is just too small/busy just for one pub in the area.

Worth a visit if in the area (and if you can find a table!), however some improvement could be made overall.

Edit: Returned in the evening (5:30pm) to see if service was any better. Pub was still busy and drinks arrived through in good time. However, the food order was a bit slow at arriving, around 24 minutes this time. It is a shame as this isn't a bad pub, it is just let down by slow food service.

Had the 'new' 10" Crunchy Chicken and Smoked Chipotle Wrap, Chips...

A 9 out 10 rate

I had a lovely stay at the Weatherspoon hotel. The staff was so lovely ,kind and welcoming us when we came to check in. We stay Friday till Monday as a 3 night stay. You have to go to the bar first to get person to check you in bec no one manning the reception.

We booked a family room so our room was a bit bigger than the normal standard room size. We stayed in room 211. The was a lot of stairs and they was very narrow please bear that in mind but was ok for us as we was young and we got our daily exercise in lol. The room was beautiful, cosy and clean to very high standard. We had house keeping every day.

You are right in centre of city of Worcester with the train station Worcester Foregate Street being about 5 min walk. The is some lovely shop near and food places too. A Greggs , cafe Nero, Mc Donald’s , subway, weather spoon pub , costa coffee , slug and lettuce and many more too .Also primark , new look, shoe zone , M&S , small Tesco , savers , Waterstones and many more too.

They have a car park to but not shaw how to get to it as didn’t have a car.

I felt very safe there as when we arrived the was some drunk people smashing thing up but security was right on it and got the person out and ban them from coming back. We also had keys card and only people who stay in hotel could get in because you need your card to get thought the doors. Also it was nice you didn’t have to keep walking in the pub to get to the room as they have alleyway for hotel people walk thought.

If it raining and you fancy going down stair to weatherspoon pub you won’t get wet because your under shelter.

The check out time was 11.00am I thought that was a reasonable time to check out.

The down side was

The Wi-Fi wasn’t great keep disconnecting idk if that bec we was in high up room so hard for us to connect to the Wi-Fi.

The view we had was facing the back of hotel so we only really seen building of it no views of shopping place.

You can still here the bar noise from your room but more in the bathroom than bedroom so glad it wasn’t to bad when sleeping as I knew it would be busy as it was weekend stay.

I would definitely come back here again if I was...

Absolutely disgraceful service here. We visited to get a quick meal before heading to the theatre, before ordering we asked how long the food wait was and were informed that there was only one order on the board currently so it would be less than 10 minutes - this would have been perfect.

We placed an order for drinks before quickly deciding what food we wanted so it would all be ordered together. Both meals came with drinks but the barman put the drinks through separately and so charged us extra for drinks. When questioned he had such a bad attitude saying its how the till worked and that as we ordered the food after it was just how it was. We said that he could have offered us the second drink with the meal but we just got no other response than that's just how it is.

We sat down and found that our drinks were flat so had to go back to the bar to get them replaced. After 10 minutes a member of staff approached the table to say that one of the curry's that we'd ordered had ran out (it was 6.20pm and curry night, so shocking they'd ran out). My friend asked if the tikka massala was available instead but hadn't committed to the change, the staff member said they'd go and find out and come back. Well, no-one came back at all so we assumed they'd changed the order.

After 30 minutes of waiting from the original order there was still no sign of food and we had five minutes before having to leave for the theatre. We had no other choice but to ask for a refund on the order. The duty manager didn't seem fazed by it at all, even as it was explained that the original barman's attitude was incredibly poor and customer service in general was severely lacking.

I know with Spoons you expect cheap and easy but this was a...