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Looks nice from outside and the wood floors and decor suggest a nice place. Beer less than impressive and as others have stated it tends to get a bit lively around closing time on a Saturday night. Its position close to the local Spoons probably does not help matters. I have not been in there at the weekend, but the place is often heaving with people, so they must be doing something right.
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Just simply awful. A beacon of dross in the town centre where the communities charvers and fighters can hang out together. Add to that the most annoying disco ever and a Sunday karaoke, you get the idea. Someone (hopefully for a laugh) claimed it was the 'Pub of the Year'! Pub to avoid of the year more like. If you are visiting the town centre and come across this place (it will be where the fighting is outside) give it a wide berth.
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what a dive! theres plenty of nice pubs in hastings, but this is bit of a drug den! ive been in there 3 times now, and twice ive seen the "owner" doing coke with people! they got rough bouncers! not nice owners! bar staff are ok though. basically its the sort of place you avoid if you dont want to be embaressed!
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my family have visited this pub many times my daughter lives in hastings and i live in london but as of saturday 9th feb 2008 we will never visit this pub again they have door staff that are bullys and complete idiots. we were in the pub for approx 2 hurs when we went outside to have a smoke when the door staff accussed my son of passing something what we don,tknow but then they were very heavy handed and called the police over and they seemed to be on the side of the door staff and would not listen to what we were saying and searched my son which i can understand as we are all law abiding and just out for a good night out and as we left the paticular person on the door who started all this made comments of a homophbic nature to my son and his boyfriend then grabbed his boyfriend by the throat then when we complained to the police they just did not want to do anything about it so when we visit hastings again we will give the havelock a wide berth as it is run by thugs and bullys and there are many other establishments i the town that welcome honest hard working people.so be aware this pub is run by people who are thugs and may even pay off the police to turn a blind eye to their goings on.
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Six months ago I posted here that the place had no ales on. If that's the kind of pub they want to run, that's fine by me. But the sign outside six months ago said they did cask ales.
The same sign is still there, and still all you can get is euro-fizz. No ale, so why claim that they do it?
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No real ale anymore, not a good idea for an award winning pub.
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great pub and steve g is a good landlord
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I rate pubs on many things, but one of the things I consider important is their selection of ales of the pump.
Today( April 20th 2007) tyhis plae had nothing on hand pump.
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The message on the window that this was Pub Of The Year in 2005 and 2006 caught my eye. So we went in. The place is actually fairly ordinary looking. It has two entrances as it straddles two streets. On one side it is sunny and looks like a cafe with tables out on the pavement. The other side is dark and looks like the entrance to a sex shop. In the middle is the one room betting shop pub which only serves keg beer. Not quite sure who declared it to be Pub Of The Year - especially in a town with a pub as well regarded as First In Last Out.
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Saturday evening. A night on the town we finished in the the pub that rarely closes, (open til about 4). Very busy, good music & dancing. Pity about the bar staff they seem to be to busy to smile. Look forward to the smoking ban in this pub. Friendly boss and no trouble there. Ideal place for the stylehounds.
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After a non-eventful train ride from London, We were looking forward to a nice pint and a spot of relaxing, WRONG!!! Beer was atrocious and the atmosphere was worse, mostly on accounts of the local 'X-Factor wannabes' belting out dire renditions of Elvis and Gloria Gaynor classics. Our advise, stay on the train and head to Brighton.
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Oh and the first round that I didnt purchase only cost us £2.70 for a Vodka and coke and 2 jd & cokes .... Im not moaning about that though.
anonymous - 14 Oct 2006 12:13 |
I have rated the pub a 2 .
Seems bad I know, but the 2 is for the good music.
The minus 8 is for the incompetent barstaff, the lack of continuity in pricing and the disgusting state of the toilets.
The bouncers are rude.
The bar staff cant cope under pressure. last night 13.10.06 a group of us went out and ended up in there, we got a round costing £7.80 , the next round was £8.90 for the same round, then £9.30, then £11.80, non of the drinks ever changing.
When questioned the bar staff responded, "Oh well you must have ordered different drinks, - to which I replied, - no and you know it, you just got me what i wanted before I even asked"
Sorry, but this pub used to be good, sort it out or lose your customers. Simple
anonymous - 14 Oct 2006 12:11 |
An alright little pub to start the weekend with. A good mix of people and ages go in here, and the music on a Friday is designed to put you in a good mood. The barmaids could use exercising their smiley muscles instead of their frowny ones, but drink enough and it'll all be a blur anyway.
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