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Popped into this pub as it was across the road from the train station and I was a bit peckish (and obviously thirsty). Lovely spacious pub with a great selection of drinks and food. Had the prime rump and it was cooked to perfection. The staff were really friendly and chatty. Lad there serving was covered in some awesome tattoos and happily told me about them. I’d recommend this pub to anyone who has got a spare hour while waiting for a train at Didcot Parkway Station.
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In terms of layout and wet and dry offerings, not greatly divorced from the ubiquitous Brewers Fayre/Chef & Brewer/Meat & Eat/Sizzling (et al) chains that are dotted around this area of Oxfordshire. Although I didn't partake, four ales were on, and not all from the GK roster, although, as mentioned below, my 'pint' of Diet Coke also failed to reach the brim, even with the inclusion of ice. The Gents were another let-down with no lock on the cubicle and a glaring trip hazard walking out. Ostensibly a station bar, it would be good to see the South of the country attempt to mirror the North and provide some quality in terms of its offerings to thirsty railgoers.
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Reviewing this place again because standards have regressed albeit not quite to the level of the mid noughties. having been told that a pint of coke filled not quite to the brim nonetheless constituted a full pint because no ice was included, our barman proceeded to jettison empty bottles across the bar into the bin, all making for a series of horrendous crashes. The crimes don't end there - the beer is kept appallingly and presumably gunge infested pipes could be the reason for the always icky flavours. A vegetarian tart also burned a friend's mouth. Dire and representative of the terrible influence Greene King is wreaking on British pubdom.
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Been refurbished again, pool table seems to have gone, open all day, food all day, standard GK beers, still a good station waiting room.
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Large open plan GK pub opposite the station. IPA, Speckled Hen and a guest. Quality was OK but not special. Food menu looked to be excellent value although it wasn't sampled. Opens at 1000.
Worth dropping into if id Didcot but I wouldn't travel there specifically for it.
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The station waiting room for those of us who enjoy a beer, green king owned but a nice pint of Fireside whilst I festered for 15 mins for the train to Swindon. Worth getting off the train for.
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Popped in here Saturday evening whilst waiting for a connecting train got talking to some friendly people, has a very laid back feel about this place and 3 real ales on as well as cheap food available. I like it.
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Went here a few months back and it has transformed, it was ill informed to go in the "old" Prince of Wales but this actualy is an improvement rather than a refurb that destroyed and killed off the soul of the prevoius incarnation.
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Classic GK. I have nothing to compare it to as I didn't see the place pre-refurb, but it remains pretty charmless with an astonishingly generous range of tasteless lagers on tap, alongside Abbot and GK IPA and a 'guest' beer (usually GK affiliated beer and around for weeks due to the Foster's swilling tendencies of the local population). All this aside, it's ok as Station pubs go.
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Used to be bloody horrible, but a million times better now since the refurbishment. Seems like a pretty decent pub now, and the addition of a train information screen was a great idea. Had a pint of GK Flankers Tackle while waiting for a connection the other day, enjoyed the beer and enjoyed the pub. Well done!
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Considerably more comfortable than the station while making a connection. Undoubtedly transformed from earlier incarnations - I remember it as a slightly rough Morrells house which formed the better option than the (demolished) Morlands place next door but that is definitely showing my age!
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I have been in the 'new' Prince a few times now. What a vast improvement. It is like a brand new pub. The managers seem to have got rid of the scroats that used to drink in there and now have a very nice customer base. The Prince is now a place to go for a quiet drink away from football and screaming children. Perfect. Just what Didcot needed.
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A Damascene conversion, albeit at the hands of Green King. Once diabolical, this pub has emerged, butterfly-like to claim an easy win in any best pub in Didcot competition. The boards denoting train times are very useful and allow for a quick getaway, the food is slightly above avarege pub grub and the friendly service, previously the only plus point, has been by and large retained. OK, it's not scintillating but the improvement should be applauded.
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*CLOSED ON VISIT MAY 2008*
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Well, the earlier reviews cover it for me...
The staff are great, friendly, efficient and hard working. Whatever your pub, I reckon you'd be pleased to have them behind the bar.
That said, it *is* a rough working class dive full of boozed-up local rednecks. Like another poster, I too was harangued in monosyllables - albeit by a woman - but, this one incident aside, did not feel intimidated. Much. Mostly I just felt out of place. It's their pub, and I'm not one of them.
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Put the words "GREENE KING" and "DIDCOT" together and what do you get?
HEY PRESTO --- Possibly the worst pub in the world.
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Unbelievably, this pub has got worse since my last visit. They now have regular male and female strippers on Fridays and Saturdays. It's almost as though the managers are actively trying to become the worst pub in Didcot (a tricky competition to win). This latest development means that it is now definitely preferable to drink an open can of Stella you've picked up from the track just before you hear the words "the service approaching platform 2 is a non-stopping service, please stand back from the platform" fizzing from the tannoy into your soon to be smashed up head.
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After the demise of the Great Western next door (now a car park), this pub - renamed the Three Lions for the duration of the 2006 World Cup - has a monopoly on visitors who fancy a pint on being inevitably delayed at Didcot Parkway station.
On a recent visit, we were harangued in monosyllables by a man sporting full Reading Football Club leisurewear. The staff do their best and are the only bright spark since the demise of the perfectly decent jukebox back in 2005.
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My mother always told me that if one hasn't got anything positive to say then one should keep one's mouth shut. Thus, the positives should come first. The staff at this establishment are never anything other than friendly and efficient. The pub is sloce enough to the train station that one can enjoy a pint until a minute or two before the scheduled train back to London (or wherever).
Next door there used to be another pub which has been turned into a carpark. One might say that this has got a better atmosphere than the venue in question. That would be unfair. The Prince of Wales is an unreconstructed boozer which is marginally preferable to enjoying a can of gin 'n tonic from the Pumkin cafe on platform 2 of Didcot Parkway train station. Marginally.
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A rough working class dive ful of boozed-up local rednecks.
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Just awful! a real chav stronghold; the locals are loud, intimidating and cannot converse at all without 80% of the content being "F**K"; or similar.
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