Seems Like A Bad Idea From Wetherspoons

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It's not as if every other pub is by a road and with a car park after all.

And a lot of people drive like idiots even when sober.....

Not sure a pub at a services is a great idea, and the cynic in me says the Wetherspoons prices will rise to meet the other outlets, rather than the other way round, but we mustn't get in the way of people having it all, all the time, must we.

 

[CopperBrompton]

Sounds perfect to me: edible food at decent prices, and free wifi. Given a choice at a service station, I'd opt for a Weatherspoons for sure.

 

[mcshroom]

I can think of places with pubs just as close to the motorway (M18 J1 springs to mind with a Brewers Fayre just off the roundabout). This isn't a motorway service station in the sense of Watford Gap or Trowell, it's a development off a junction that can be accessed by non-motorway roads just as easily as it can from the motorway. Also I've seen alcohol served in motorway service stations in other countries like Germany.

I don't see the problem, if people are stupid enough to drink and drive, they will find a way to do so anyway.

 

[roadrash]

last time i stopped at services , in the shop i picked up a mars, a packet of crisp and a can of coke , having no change i said to the lady on the till "sorry but ive only got a £20 note " oh thats allright she says ...just put the crisp back

 

[stephec]

I remember doing a double take when I saw some cans on sale in the WH Smiths at the services up near Carlisle a while back.

Mind you it was John Smiths and Fosters, and you'd have to be a proper desperate alky to pay over the odds at the services for that crap.

 

[ufkacbln]

Watneys starlight beer, as I recall, was brewed in the 1970s especially for lorry drivers. It was sold at transport cafes......those with a discerning palate could have a light and starlight

So nothing new, really....

Yeah - but that was when real men drank real beer!

None of those namby pamby soft drinks or women on the wrong side of the bar!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I used ot overnight quite a bit in motorway service areas in the truck. I always preferred to walk to a nice quiet pub for a pint after work, but if that wasn't an option I'd open a bottle of wine and take it and a wine glass into the "restaurant". I'd happily go to a motoway Wetherspoons for a few if it was an option.

 

[Paulus]

I don't really know what the fuss is about, there are plenty of pubs along normal roads where drivers can stop and drink if they wanted to. The fuss is because Weatherspoons has opened the first pub on a motorway. As User says, it is to get coach parties in to make more money for the company.

 

[Peteaud]

Come down to the West Country, many signs at the side of the road for farm cider.

 

[Pale Rider]

Watneys starlight beer, as I recall, was brewed in the 1970s especially for lorry drivers. It was sold at transport cafes......those with a discerning palate could have a light and starlight

So nothing new, really....

Years ago I bought a pint of Watneys in the pub outside Lord's cricket ground in London.

It was cheap, and I remarked to the barman on the low price.

"It is because it's the weakest beer Watneys make," he said.

"Must be very weak then," I replied.

"Put it this way," said the barman. "If you fell into a vat of it, you wouldn't get drunk, you would drown."