The Swan Hotel, Thame - pub details
Address: 9 Upper High Street, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 3ER [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 22105) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Haddenham & Thame Parkway (2.8 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
Pub suggested by jonboy on 30 Apr 2005
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> Current user rating: 7.0/10 (rated by 11 users)
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| CLOSED DOWN at the beginning of 2012. Shame. galactico - 6 Apr 2012 12:20 |
| Improvement on my last visit, some interesting beers, they had decked out the pub for Halloween. Beer wasn't great, a little cold and not bad but not great either, the pub is improving which is a positive. Abteilung - 25 Oct 2009 16:56 |
| An update; I visited this place of an evening last weekend and the Reports I were given were confirmed as pretty accurate. We were welcomed with dim lighting, a sparse crowd and a smell. Never in the tills of fallen Cygnus was no such money taken by so many who are now so few. The patron ain'ts have gone on deserstion. Customers were treated to Heart FM being 'pumped' through the television. Now i'm not sure of the slogan "Give it some Heart", but what this establishment desperately needs back is the Soul that once kept this little gem afloat. Compare this pub with another on the market and The Swan gets flown out of the water. I give you the Black Horse, which is not listed on this site. I like this place. You've got good beer, good service and a good atmosphere. Not much else is needed really. During the day it's filled with food lovers, lunchtime desk-jockeys and the senior service. You can really appreciate listening to the veteran anecdotes of these men who have been there, done it and got the singlet. At night it's an asylum of callow youths, party people and the all of sundry of the night's drinkers who are out in Thame. There's such a mix of people that get in here that if Berie Bassett walked in off the street, he'd probably say to himself, "Christ, not another work's do". The great composer John Sullivan once wrote, "Only Fools and Horses Work" and the Black Horse certainly works for me. Carlsberg don't do this pub, but it's still probably the best pub in Thame. So good in fact that it may not appear on comparison websites, especially not CompareTheBeerTat.com. Simples. InnCheck - 10 Jul 2009 16:00 |
| Since the Brothers Grin stopped keeping bar here a couple of years ago, this place has gone downhill with such devastating affects that Jack and Jill are wondering whether there really was a necessity to have that tap fitted. Contrary to recent reports, although this pub has been acting like a fairground ride, it still seems to find itself lost in the Hall of Mirrors rather than the Hall of Fame. Since they left, this pub has changed hands more times than an Olympic Relay baton, but has never stayed on track to provide good service or a good atmosphere, two things that you could always rely on. On some occasions, you can walk in and there is no-one in there; staff and customers alike, lunchtime speaking of course. However, the Reports I’ve heard do not suggest that the evenings have a much better outlook. When the beer is served, it is good. But good beer doesn’t always bring success. You need a suitable location to enjoy it. Imagine if Wordsworth had never taken a walk through a shady glen… This venue still has the potential to be a cracking little watering hole, but with the way things are going, they’ll end up with the wrong sort of ‘hole’ that the proprietors are after. Is this pub going to end up the Swanny or will it return to the glory days of Big Brother, Little Brother? Who knows, you decide. InnCheck - 1 Jul 2009 15:38 |
| Back here now for first time since Oct 08 and they seem to have got the message. 4 different real ales available, 2 from the Vale brewery in Haddenham. Things seem to be returning to "normal" thank goodness, although we noticed a few of the older more comfy sofas have gone! Hopefully back in May for another update. brouk - 17 Apr 2009 00:53 |
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