please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
My review is for the NDG - as the ODG has another page here.
The NDG was our board for the night. Nice hotel, good service and excellent food/breakfast.
For drinkers, there is a hikers bar that's unpretentious . Two real ales were on - Wainwright and a never seen before and little information found on the web Hardy Tup. It does appear as though I have been accidentally been drinking mild again.
Great location and good beer.
Visit blogged at http://bit.ly/2nxKrja
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The pub in the pictures is the Old Dungeon Ghyll, half a mile up the road.
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Went to the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hikers bar after a long walk. Nice to find a few real ales on handpull. A classic old fashioned bar,no fancy frills,just a nice friendly place to sit and enjoy a beer after a long days walking. The ale was served and kept well,had some Cumberland ale,have to say its the best one ive had in a while,other pubs havent kept it right,also had a nice pint of Theakstons XB which went down nicely. The bar staff were friendly and happy to have crack and the lad was very knowledgeable about his ales.The outside was pleasant as well with several tables to sit and enjoy a scenic area. Shame I had to get the bus back to Ambleside at 4.15 as I couldve stayed and drank all evening. Look forward to returning when I am in Langdale again.
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ALL your pictures are of The Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel - this review is for the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel and subsequent to that will be a review for the New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel which as ciderchap advised is further (walkable distance) down the road near Elterwater, likewise the Sticklebarn. I will upload a picture of the New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel and the rating is for the same.
Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel: enjoyed a Yates Best and 3 of Moorhouse Black Cat - all beer was excellent in particular the Black Cat. Ate here as well, adequate. Friendly atmosphere - an enjoyable pub, to tired to get lashed. About �2.60 a pint.
New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel: enjoyed 2 beers here Thwaites Wainright and Cumberlands Corby Ale - both were very good, in particular the Wainright. The Corby Ale is produced by a small brewery from Carlisle called 'Cumberland' and is not to be confused with 'Jennings'. Also ate here, had the homemdade chicken and leek pie with fresh veg, gravy and chips - it was excellent (the pie) and at �10.95 with a Wainright thrown in is reasonable for the location. The pie on it's own was �9.50 and the Wainright �3.15...which is a tad steep.
In summary - both Dungeon Ghylls (old and new) are worth a visit. The staff in both establishments are overworked and no doubt underpaid.
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This reveiw is for the OLD dungeon Ghyll(ODG) hotel, the refrences and picture are of the Odg.
Top pub, the walkers bar is what it says on the door - for walkers , 2 legged and four all made very welcome, reasonably priced and generous portions of food in probally the best location for a pub in the lake district. Beer is great especialy the black sheep bitter and the conniston bluebird. Walk and crawl back and forth from here and the stickle barn and you wont go far wrong.
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Turned up with the Langdale Folk Festival is full swing! Excellent fun and excellent beer, but sadly once again the food was appallingly bad. We had cumberland sausage which was burnt and served with cold, brown chips and cold mixed veg straight from either a tin or the freezer. It is a shame that for such a great pub with such a great atmosphere and such great beer they serve up such slop. Drink here then eat up at the Stickle Barn instead.
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Cracking place to sit outside on a dry night when staying in langdale, although on saturday night, the place was full of smoke from the open fire which was a bit off putting. Nevertheless, the beer was on top form!
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This pub is The Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel at the end of the valley, not The New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel which is about a mile and a half back towards Elterwater. This is by far the best walkers pub, with great atmosphere and a smashing pint of Old Rosie. Hope someone finds my rucksack which 'fell' off the top of Harrison Stickle on Easter Sunday!
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Popped in here a couple of times during my last Lakeland foray and it was good to see that things haven't changed much since I used to come here many years ago whilst camping at the nearby NT site. The crackling fire in the old cast iron range, the same good, wholesome and hearty food on the menu to replenish energy supplies after your day on the fells and good beer to accompany it - the Old Peculier was fantastic. The guy behind the bar saw us looking at the printed weather report for the next day and offered to print us off a copy so we could get the full version with the next couple of day's outlooks too - which was very kind of him and something he didn't have to do. All-in-all, I was pleased to see that it was still everything that I remembered it being good for and long may that continue.
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This is the classic pub. If in the Lakes it is a must visit. Food and beer both top class. 9/10
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Good pub in a Tolkienish type location with a good (although not overly exciting) range of beer - the Lancaster brewery blonde was the exception, but what the hell, the beer is always good. Always stopped here on route to the Stickle barn for a swift pint or two. Don't mind the staff as they give me beer. Bit too rough & ready to spend an evening in here but still a classic pub.
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OK I have been going into this place for a long time now, I have also stayed there a couple of times,I love this place,but what to say?If you have been lucky enough to have been in on an evening of folk music in front of its roaring fire in the middle of winter or have sat outside in the sun with a cold pint of cider after a trip to Scafell and back you will know what I mean.Sadly I too have met one or two of the staff when they are in the mood to be just plain rude,in fact one new year eve lunchtime back in 1990 the Barman on duty told me I would get a punch in the mouth if I did not queue,now maybe I should of been more aware of what was going on around me but I had been in this place many times before and never saw anyone in a line at the bar.Sometime a year or so later I once again came acoss the same barman being rude to another customer I quess, I hope he has moved on now though I know he was,is a native of the valley.All in all though this is a great place, there can be few other places in this country with so much going for it, so much character.
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I've been to this pub on a few occasions now... the service is terrible and the staff are rude. The coffee is rubbish, but the beer is pretty good. I'd recommend a visit for the scenery and beer, that's all.
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Excellent pub with plenty of real ale and decent basic food which is exactly what is needed after a day in the hills. Good honest pub with good beer. The customers are only there to enjoy the ale, food and chatter. And no music or fruit machines, thankfully.
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Superb basic boozer. The range can be somewhat limited but there's usually Old Peculier to rely upon. Can get very packed at weekends over the summer. Excellent staff, in my experience.
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Nipped in here for the first time in a few years last Wednesday. Lots of real ales, but a bit disappointed that they were nearly all ordinary bitters: Jennings Cumberland, Theakston XB, Black Sheep Bitter & Ale (one pint - Ok), Yates Bitter(two pints - very good); there was only Old Peculiar representing anything a bit different. Personally I would like to see a range of beers if so many are on tap; a mild, porter or IPA would be nice to try, depending on what you feel like coming off the hills.
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now this is a superb pub......fantastic staff,great beer, lovely setting ....stayed there with the whole family and they couldnt do enough.
Cant wait to go back!!!
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Wonderful pub. Great choice of beers, basic but good food. Sitting outside with a pint on a warm summers evening after a good day on the hills....heaven!.
glugg - 13 Jun 2008 20:36 |
The food was a bit of an improvement over last year - it looks like they have finally changed the fat in the chip pan! Excellent beer choice, though again the bar staff are often rude to customers especially non-English ones which doesn't do the Cumbrian Tourist Board much of a favour! Not sure what one of the previous writers was going on about regarding the NT camp site across the road - it is always quiet and trouble free, in comparison to the one in Chapel Stile down the road!
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Landed for some food and beer on a scorching bank holiday saturday evening after descending from the Langdale Pikes. Haven't been in for a few years now and realised that some things never change. Good beer, good portions of pub grub, and rammed with walkers (the good kind). It's one of those pubs that everyone professes to love but can't quite quantify why it's so good. Phrases like 'great walkers' pub', 'spit and sawdust' or 'proper pub like pubs should be' don't quite capture it. Just go there and see for yourself.
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It's a shame the nearby campsite has become such a packed and troublesome spot on a bank holiday.
Go mid-week, or in the depths of winter. Great beer, roaring fire and somewhere to dry your socks.
A very special spot, even if I shall be forever haunted by some very hazy memories in the hikers bar of an inflatable sheep.
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my memories of this pub was walking in one sat pm after the bus had dropped me off walking in and thinking they had a cheese selection on...imagine my surprise wen the cheese became stronger the nearer i got to the fire...to find...rows upon rows of hikers socks drying out over the fire!!!!!the hikers were having lunch!!!the beer was good...but that smell of cheese always reminded me of the olde dungeon ghyll!!
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excellent pub in a great location gets a bit to busy sometimes good selection of beers and the food was very good a nice place to visit after a hard day out walking in the hills i always visit when i am in the area
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Basic, but excellent, walkers pub in a superb location. Excellent beer range. The perfect end to a strenuos walk up Crinkle Crags. 6 real ales and a cider on at time of visit. The Yates Bitter was great.
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Fabulous beer choice after a walk, nice friendly atmosphere amongst the customers. Sadly let down by very poor food - the Stickle Barn up the road serves a much better meal.
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This is indeed a Lake District institution and the kind of pub where one�s spirits naturally rise. This is in part the simple knowledge that one is in Langdale, surely one of the best places in the world, even if it isn�t actually visible from inside the pub. But the beer is also very good. Over New Year there was Black Sheep Bitter and Ale, Theakstons XB and OP, Yates Fever Pitch, Jennings Cumberland Ale and a real cider. It�s very much the kind of pub you need to visit in walking boots and is rather basic: wooden benches (there�s no upholstery), formica topped tables and, despite the stove, it isn�t always very warm. But ever since I got lost on the Crinkles in snow as night came on and only narrowly made it down to the ODG, it�s had a kind of totemic significance and comfort for me.
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Not been for a while so i must have been in a bad spell will return. Chips were the only redeeming feature, oh and the view
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This is one of my all time favourites...
There have been a succession of vaguely surly landlords who entertain themselves at the expense of the unknowing tourist (self included), but deliver some of the best beer and surroundings in the world!
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It might be basic, but it is one of the best pubs anywhere concentrating only on what is really important - beer & atmosphere!!!
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Well you can't beat the setting...or the ale. Went on a hot summer's day (15/11/2006). Tremendous!
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Probably the most famous walkers' pubs in the Lakes. As basic as it gets which is a good idea because most of the time everyone is dripping wet after a hard day on the Crinkles or Bowfell in driving rain. But on a sunny Summer day in the beer garden with a pint of Yates or Bluebird in front of you and Pike 'O Blisco soaring up to meet the blue sky in the distance....can it get any better? Well, yes. I prefer the Inn at Wasdale Head, but that's another story!
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This is THE walkers pub, where all meet up in late afternoon and sit out and take in some more of this glorius countryside. The ODG is the essence of England, its just Itself! Its also the bus terminus if your too 'relaxed' to walk back down Great Langdale!
Sid98 - 21 May 2006 00:36 |
One of the great walker's & climber's pubs, though maybe not quite as lively as it used to be. Don't go for the fairly basic food, go for the beer & the atmosphere on a busy night.
The only pub I have been in where a naked bloke who danced on a table, & promptly broke it & a pile of glasses, was not thrown out just handed a broom to sweep up the glass with.
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Top 5 in country no doubt - great beer- proper drinkers pub, no Chavs, perfect location to lay back after an arduous hike up Ska Fell
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Lovely place, I've always found the beer to be good (good selection too), the food tasty and the people friendly. Old fashioned and warm. The mood is somehow summed up by a comment I once overheard: someone was fiddling with a mobile phone and his friend said "Put that effing technology away...you're in the ODG now!"
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In my top 10 as well - excellent beers and great atmosphere. Agreed can be busy on summer weekends
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Stunning scenery, a great pint. The Bluebird is (was) to be commended. Remember a fantastic black and white collie - might have lived there - that used to catch beer mats and made sure everyone in the boozer threw one for him. Cute.
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Concur wholly with many of the above comments, and is rated as one of my top ten pubs (probably top 3 actually) The staff are fab as they do not suffer fools gladly!! The beer is stupendous, The ambience for people who like flagstone floors and wooden benches is unmatchable, but it gets very busy at high season. I likewise will visit this pub every time I go to the Lake District, in fact it is a major reason for me to travel the 180 miles!! HEAVEN
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Set in amongst some magnificent scenery all I can say is I had a truly wonderful night there after a hard days walkin.Good beer,friendly staff.smashing
James - 10 Nov 2004 23:14 |
Sitting amongst stunning Lakeland scenery, this is a good honest pub where you can rest after a days walking, with great beer and good food. It's worth planning a walk in this area just so you can visit the pub afterwards! There's even accomodation for those sensible enough to book in advance ;-)
Robin - 13 Aug 2004 08:23 |
I used to play guitar in the Ole D.G , what are the "two songs you are not allowed to sing" that one of the bar staff used to say ? As I never wished to wear my instrument as a hat! Other than that it has been one of my favourite bars for over 25 years, which says a lot for the consistency of the place!
Joseph hamilton - 16 Jul 2004 10:23 |
Has got to be one of my all time favorites. Excellent Beer - Yates. Good food. This place has kept me going back at least once a year for the last 15+ years. Unlike KEV, never had a problem with the staff. Always friendly.
BP_Crock - 3 Mar 2004 20:33 |
The Walkers Bar is what a pub is all about. Good beer & food, honest hard working bar staff and punters there who want for you what they expect for themselves (mainly). Also views are amazing.
Go once and you'll return
Richard - 25 Feb 2004 12:55 |
Excellent pub, superb location for falling into after a walk, with nearby campsite. Beer well kept and food basic but good quality. Only downside is staff can be impolite!!
KEV - 25 Feb 2004 12:20 |
An old favourite among climbers and walkers. Great pint of Yates and good food. The customers have a strange habit of forming an orderly queue at the bar though.
Neil - 8 Feb 2004 12:36 |
Old climbers/walkers pub nestled under Langdale Pikes. Cask Ales usually superb. Outside drinkinmg area at the front popular when coming off the fells after a hard day. The Yates Bitter here has a good reputation for being a great place to drink that breweries best bitter.
frank - 26 Dec 2003 13:59 |
