The Three Tuns (JD Wetherspoon), Thirsk

Bigger than it looks with a bar to the left. Many rooms down steps to the right and an outside area. Trouble was - the beer. Only seven pumps and not much choice. A poorish Spoons.

Like many of the JDW Hotels the bar here is a rambling old place as described below. I did notice that the Hotel Reception was signposted as being through the rear patio which makes me wonder if the rooms are a new build or another building. It was fairly quiet on a Tuesday afternoon. The bar only has seven hand pumps which had three available soon, the JDW Trio Of Doom and Rudgate Patriot Pale. I went for the Patriot Pale which was in good nick but not exactly inspiring. This may have a much better interior than the vast majority of JDWs but a pathetic beer choice like that makes it a complete waste of time.

Existing pub/hotel taken over by wetherspoons (accommodation still available).

It's a good little JDW is this. One main room with a number of smaller rooms down a few steps that can all be hired out for the evening. The small rooms are all very well decorated with bureaus & bookshelves around the place. The beer range wasn't great and the three "guest" beers were all from established regionals. Having said that I had 4 pints in here over the day and evening and all were in good nick. Service seeme pretty efficient for a JDW and all the tables were cleaned as soon as people left. However, be warned, we called in on a hot Saturday afternoon recently and saw several of the largest women in the world wearing tiny short skirts and cropped tops.