BITE user comments - stormwatch
Comments by stormwatch
I haven't been in since a while. The open mic afternoons were awful and put me off. Painful to listen to (particularly the preacher with the stick) and it was compulsory listening too, couldn't get away from it unless I was in the garden.
Once, the only guy who was any good drew sniggers and unwarranted criticism (he won them over with some hot guitar though). I found out he didn't even want to be there but was cajoled into playing. That made the hecklers look like wimps
Have these open mic (mike?) occasions stopped? If so I may pop back in.
18 Nov 2011 13:36
You're not alone Sarah, the manager (sic) acts like a smirking gay wimp.
29 Mar 2011 15:04
This place and its managers are just GAY! and I don't mean happy.
12 Aug 2010 14:12
Charliebubbles (a.k.a. the pair of herberts from the Red Lion),
the K & Q is not great but neither is it bad and definitely NOT violent!
There has been no trouble here EVER since Liverpool Pete took over.
Take a look at the King and Queen Wendover Facebook pages.
30 Nov 2009 15:37
Thank you mcrewe. No hard feelings.
Actually one of the managers had a black eye a while back. Did he get on the wrong side of one of the locals?
Could somone bop the other manager for me
11 Nov 2009 10:46
�Bad Chef, worse customer focus�
Red Lion Wendover
The most basic test for a Chef is cooking an omelette. A white-egg omelette is just yolk free omelette, as every chef knows; everyone except the Red Lion's at Wendover. The UK's cooking jokes are famous and the fact that I need to explain what a white omelette is every time I ask for it at this hotel is just funny. What is not funny is when the last of 5 times I stay in the hotel the lady at the breakfast just denies to serve me the yolk free omelette because "the chef is new". She even says to me that already asked the chef as she saw me and "knew" what I was going to order (good "negative" CRM, by the way). I could order anything in the menu. So I take the menu and read out loud as I show the text to her: "Eggs the way you want". And, so, I say, what I want is a white egg omelette. The whole scene amazed (and amused) the audience and I had to walk away when she said " we are just not going to serve you that".
The manager on duty in the front desk was apologizing without taking any action and my mail to the general manager, Mr. Martin Howard, was just ignored.
Hiring a chef with no skills for a white egg omelette can be funny, even a good input for further UK cooking jokes; humiliating and ignoring a customer is unforgettable. There are great alternatives ot these poorly customer oriented businesses. Me and my whole company (a good business value...) will never go again to the Red Lion at Wendover and our next destination will be The Shakespeare House.
I thank this site for collecting precious customer feedback that guide us to the best places and that will keep all of us on our toes to satisfy our own customers.
2 Nov 2009 13:44
The score never got higher than 4.3, ever, and dive bombed to 2.6 in the space of three months when the management decided to let that degenerate peace campaigner back on site.
The only positive reviews are from tourists who don't have the abuse that the Wendover people have from the Marston's/managers and the village reprobates they allow in.
19 Sep 2009 06:01
Martin the mamager,
we will ready your own words back to you:
"...and the gentleman in question does not now visit the Red lion. I have not let him come on the premises swinging a stick around scaring everybody including my daughter since i arrived so do not worry! hope to see you in the future ".
Now tell us about petty lies and rubbish.
21 Aug 2009 11:39
A message to the Marstons area manager.
The villagers are now voting with their feet and their wallets and going elsewhere. Even outside of Wendover, you do not have a captive clientele that your arrogant bullying Red Lion management can monopolise.
Forget about trendy practices or 'Common Purpose' and offer us good service or kiss goodbye to our business and our trade.
The Oak and Duck in Aston Clinton are vastly superior in quality.
You have had more changes of managers than Tottenham Hotspur in the last three years and you still cannot get it right.
Despite the best efforts of the locals to meet you halfway and support the current regime we have been let down very badly with what we have to put up with, just read the other comments.
S. Thorlow
9 Aug 2009 19:50
The Red Lion Hotel, Wendover
If Martin is still there, forget it.
18 Nov 2011 13:37