please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
What the others said, mainly. The beer I asked for was gone, but they had not turned the pumpclip yet. I had asked for a half pint, but when the barmaid brought me my second choice, it was a full pint (I did not protest though, as the beer was very cheap). Concerning food, they have the full JDW menu. I had the fish & chips, fair enough.
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Not a bad Spoons.
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Nice enough interior, decent selection of ales.
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Pub has really improved since a new pub manager started about 18 months ago. Plenty of ales which are often local to Sussex. Food good too.
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As a country pub enthusiast and a real ale 'snob', I entered this place with some trepidation, especially after reading some of the entries on this site.. A Wetherspoon's in Crawley, how low can one go?? I am pleased to say my fears were not realised. Ok the place is a bit square and soul-less, which comes from it being built within a shop format, but nevertheless it is comfortable and friendly. But the best bit was that JDW are having a beer festival, and the choice of beers was truly staggering. After some deliberation I chose a pint of Well's Naked Gold (becuase I liked the name) and was served a perfectly kept and delicous pint, for �1.99, yes, �1.99 !! For once I am glad to be proved wrong and I will be back .......
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This JDW pub has no interest in the real ale side of its business. Almost always there is only ONE guest ale on while the other pumps are decorated with those infuriating signs that say 'coming soon', which means, it's gone - run out and we don't care. The staff (most of them, not all) don't give a stuff about ale related complaints or comments - that is if you can find a bar person. This pub is not a patch on the JDW Lynd Cross in Horsham. The Jubilee Oak is a lager drinkers pub and cheap spirits 'warm up pub' for people who heading off to enjoy their evening elsewhere.
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I happen to know for absolute certain there has never been a day where the kitchen wasnt open for a day because the chef was ill due to the fact the entire managment team would have been sacked it that had happen as it is a wetherspoons you stupid person
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After a recommendation like that Woody90 I am happy to be talking out of my arse.
The pub is a crap hole.
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awsome pub me and a group of my old school mates have been coming to this pub every week since we turned 18!
always the Jub for warm up drinks before a night up in Brighton, London or even if we're skint bar med!
cant fault it best grub best booze good people, anyone else who puts it down is talking out there arse! =)
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Probably the worst Wetherspoon's I have ever been to. The place was a tip on a Saturday afternoon and there was no food (the only reason for going in there) as the chef was ill. The beer and cider was less than average and there was a severe lack of bar staff, the ones 'working' were extremely rude. This pub is marginally better than the White Hart which is one of worst pubs I have been in. I would much rather go to The Old Punchbowl.
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Its a Wetherspoons so don't expect too much, but if shopping in Crawley then it is probably your best bet for an OK beer.
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I love this pub and DISCO dave :P
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I recommend you go in here on your own with a hard-back book in mid-afternoon, order two pints of different real ales at a time to cut your waiting in half, sit in a corner with your other pint keeping the next place so that no other mad scrote sits next to you and try not to fall down the staircase on the way back from the bogs.
That's what I do, anyway. Bliss!
Oh, and remember to stagger out before the chavs start pouring in of an evening.
This is Crawley, after all.
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deff not the "worst beers in town" the pint of grainstore "silly billy" i quaffed few weeks back was lovely stuff, 7/10
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I went here a few months back i was drinking out of a wine glass and i had noticed some lovely lipstick on it as though it wasnt cleaned how rank is that?
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Used to be good for cheap real ales but now the manager (I mean manager Dave) just cant be arsed with ordering good beer. So if you want the worst guest beers in town here the place
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felt overdressed with two ears crawley at its best ?.probs
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Average wetherspoons - first spoons I have smelt strong weed smell in tho!!! - but lad behind the bar very efficient and coors satisfactory - quiz machine was having an off day
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Perhaps next time you should bring your husband!
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Felt unsafe in here! and im 17stone!
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The manager doesn't make any comments on here - it wouldn't be wise or professional!
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Visited on a Saturday afternoon May 07 and it seems much improved. Quicker, cleaner and a good pint. Not convinced by the manager looking for an argument on here though! If you have a point to make you are better simply giving facts mate.
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PBI sounds like someone i have barred and is therefore a trifle bitter!
PBI's posting is so different to the other recent posts - so, if i haven't bareed them - perhaps they were mistaken over the pubs name and location.
Strangley, we have increased the 'at-any-one-time' head count in the pub by a hundred over the past year. Obviously these extra people don't share PBI's views.
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It lives up to its nickname of "The Jubilee Joke".A truly awful Pub full of the Dregs of Crawley I.E. Alcoholics,Junkies and dossers who have all been banned from the Normal Pubs in Crawley.Atrocious Microwaved Food,Gassy Beer,Decrepit interior.A Really Awful place.More Atmosphere on the Moon.
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The Best pub in Crawley without a doubt.
Helpful and polite staff,
quick and brilliant sevice (despite it being absolutely packed Friday and Saturday night you still get served in a couple of minutes),
great atmosphere so on and so on.
The staff do give it back but only if it is fully deserved.
brilliant place!!!!!
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When i went to Jubilee Oak When i turn the door staff there are really nice and you can have a laugh with unlike other places and the time when at the bar is quick and at times 1min wait when everyone get a drink at the same time staff are always smiling and i like it in there. mix groups of people old young slight goth trendy all types of people its really nice and i rate it 9 really good.
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i drink in the oak quite regulary and it is verry reffshing to see bar starf who who can throw insults back at abusive coustomers and still smile at us good one's. servis is good tho it may take up to the monstrous wate of 3 minits to get served on a bussy night when the bar is easy 3 people deep thats just 3 dam minits.
to say that onley chavs drink in there is not true goths punks oldtimers and familes all frequent the place, because it has a good atmosphere. the roof dose leak in 3 plaaces but most fail to mention that the building is in fact one of the oldst buildings in the town and if one was to spend time enough to get to know the staff in there then one will start to laugh along and see it as a qurk.
all in all a good pub good food and even better showers!
kit.
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Glad to see that marketing department of Wetherspoons are earning their keep!
In Fairness, I visited the Jubliee Oak on Friday and Saturday during my travels, and the staffing levels seem to have much improved and I had no trouble getting served quickly.
I didn't mention the door men in my last post, but they are polite and friendly.
Only point of concern was the water streaming through a light fitting and down the bannisters on the stairs on Friday night.
Obviously an isolated incident, but a bit worrying.
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Interesting to see how the comments gradually improve over the years.
Mid 2006 saw a New Manager in place; it also saw the Bouncers changing from 'local licencing' to SIA registered lecenced Door Supervisors and a change of door staff. Finally, the new licencing extended drinking hours law was implimented - these have all had a positive aspect added to the very popular Jubilee Oak.
Whereas most large towns have a Tuesday 'Student Night'; Crawley (with Gatwick Airport as a neighbour) has a Tuesday 'Aircrew night' (AKA Trolley Dollies, Air Waitressess or Cart Tarts). The Jubilee Oak is one of the few popular meeting venues on these nights.
Thursdays are very busy and equate with other pubs Friday and Saturday trade. Currently billed as a a 'curry night' with a variety of Curries around �5 with all trimmings AND A DRINK!
Friday and Saturdays do get extremely busy at the Jubilee Oak. The whole customer profile changes around 7pm. The hardened drinkers of an older age group are quickly replaced by a smart crowd of 18 - 30 year olds who are well behaved; out for a cheap meal and cheap drinks before hitting the high profile Liquid Envy nightclub (2,000 capacity with 2 dance floors, 2 D.J's, 4 bars, plentiful toilets with attendants with grooming aids in both ladies and gents and 2 cloakrooms). Most Friday and Saturday customers are therefore well dressed and NOT drunk; ready for the night club scene later.
The Manager has taken on board comments about the long wait for service and has made big changes with the staff rota: EXTRA STAFF are now reallocated to cover the busy periodS: Long waits at the bar are a thing of the past.
Any complaints about the Pub being too hot or too cold are easiley rectified - you just have to ask the Manager or Door Staff. They can't do anything if they are not informed.
Attitude works both ways and polite customers are always treated with respect - unpolite customers are not welcome - so keep away if you have attitude!
No steps at the entrances means easil access for those with mobility problems. A Ground floor toilet with aids is positioned in the centre of this very large bar.
Forget the past history - The Jubille Oak is the place to be!
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Very much a pub of 2 halves.
If you want a few cheap drinks (from an extensive selection), willing to go early, and planning to move on, it does exactly what it says on the tin.
Anything else, forget it!
After about 8pm it becomes mission impossible to get served, the pub becomes full of schoolkids and the cast of crime watch.
It's also bloody cold.
Have a few cheap drinks at the start of your evening............then go!
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Local Alcoholics meeting place,Friday Night is Chav Night,rest of the Wek the Place is full of lowlife scum or lon term winos,who only use the place because it is cheap and they can spend all their benefit money in there.Foo is rubbish...out of the Freezer into the Microwave.
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this pub rox, dnt care wat the rest say, there's no where i'd rather go when back in crawley - always a chance of meetin the best ppl! cheap drinks (good when ur a student) nice food, good for a chat, bar staff and doormen work hard! i've met sum great ppl here! love it!
anonymous - 14 Mar 2006 22:20 |
Ventured into the jubilee JOKE! the other weekend again!,wearing the usual paraphernalia that goes with this pub,carbonfibre stab vest,shin guards,and of course the optional,but equally essential Armored cricket box, thats my woman sorted!. i was carrying the only book you will ever need in any wetherspoons "1001 ways to communicate with a drunk" essential reading if one wants to continue as a living organism on our planet drinking here,unlike most of the amoeba that have lost the one cell they need,that use this place.
five minutes getting to the bar and my faith in wetherspoons was not disappointed,Neanderthal at the bar talking drunkenly loud full of expletives,stopped shouting looked at the floor and chundered,approx four dead dogs,a wildebeast,two pints of bile, and what looked like a clutch assembly from a Mk2 Cortina!, thank god the Wilton carpet was in place to soak most of it up or it would of made a terrible mess!.
The bar staff as in most wetherspoons look like they have just come back from an 18/30 vacation in Gwantanomo bay, drained and lifeless, long hours takes its toll on a human spirit.
As a positive,the Abbott ale was excellent,cask marked,as is all the beers in the chain, just hope Mr Tim Martin of wetherspoons takes the time to read through the comments on ALL his pubs, just like my book, it does not make very good reading!.
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This was the first ever Spoons I went in, however many years ago it was they were spawned. Back in the day it was alright in the daytime, but slag/stud central of a weekend night. Had many an all-dayer in there, but only ever used it as a starting point for a few Aftershocks on a weekend night. Sounds like it's gone downhill now, shame.
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anonymous is partly right but it is a "spoons" what do you expect? It is a generic pub for chavs, dossers and women with teeth missing. Redhill and Sheperds Bush etc are other examples BUT it is cheap and they have they best range of beers anywhere. Take my advice go in "power drink" for a few and move on. Brekkie is good value too. Reigate refused to have one!!!
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Chav central! u would have a job if u didnt spend all day in the pub!
full of old drunk ben grunting at the young girls wearing little more than belts.
Regular events include old hag fighting and there are live boxing matches day and night! a word of advice AVOID at all costs
anonymous - 29 Nov 2005 16:13 |
An appalling place, with one man serving in a scruffy cavern of a bar. This is where the rougher sorts and oddballs of Crawley gather - booze may be cheap, but the price is too high, avoid!
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The drunks in here know about their drink. There is Stolichnaya vodka, Jim Beam bourbon and (amazing) Laphroaig single-malt Islay whisky on optic. Also, the manager tries to have a regular beer from King's microbrewery in Horsham on. The massive oak tree outside is the centre of the town, and is only about 130 years old despite its size. Four pubs shelter under its branches!
Vasili - 21 Aug 2004 16:35 |
Drunks during day, under age at night only redeeming feature cheap booze
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Bar so long it could double as Gatwicks' 2nd runway. One poor sod
serving. Order beer at least 1 week in advance.
Steve - 1 Jan 2004 21:01 |
Cheap drink but wouldnt touch it with a barge poll.
Too many townies at the weekend in there tracksuits just like scoucers.
Food is excellent if u can put up with the old drunks in the afternoon
Dr Howard T Duck - 30 May 2003 16:10 |
GOOD FOOD, GOOD DRINK, NO TV WHICH MEANS NO FOOTBALL, THATS A DAME SHAME.. OVERALL GOOD ATMOSPHERE PUB 9/10
GOOGLE - 28 Jan 2003 13:20 |
