The William Henry (JD Wetherspoon), Weymouth

The William Henry is a large Wetherspoons with a bright split level front bar and a much larger upstairs seating area with bar at the rear. Both sets of stairs have lifts for disabled access and there is a disabled toilet. The usual draught suspects are all available and there are ten hand pumps split between the two bars. These were drawing some Spoons stalwarts and a few guest beers which are to be expected in this chain. Cheap pub co food is available all day and there are various meal and drinks deals available. There is at least one plasma screen in the rear area that was showing muted Olympics and there was no background music during my recent Thursday evening visit. This is a decent JDW that seemed to be very popular with visiting Olympic sailing spectators and locals alike. I would have no problem returning here, but I wouldn’t stay all evening as I find all Spoons a bit boring.

One of the better 'spoons. Comfortable upper bar, good selection of well-kept ales and standard microwaved frozen pre-packed food of the chain. More spacious and feels less crowded than the other Weymouth 'spoons, the Swan. Like all of Weymouth's pubs - far, far better out of season.

This is no more than an average 'Spoons'. Choice of half a dozen ales and over a couple of days I tried three different ones and they were all fine as you would expect from Wetherspoons. As mentioned by Soup Dragon the place seems to attract the usual type of Spoons clientele and whilst good for a quick drink and as a meeting place, it is not somewhere I would want to spend any period of time.

When we went in this pub it was called the Hogs Head. Once inside here there was a small drinking area close to the door then there were a few steps on the left up to a large room which had partitions to give diners more privacy this room had bare boards,drinkers were made just as welcome as people eating. There were three real ale on here we had a drink of Gales HSB which was very nice the other beers were GK IPA and Batemans XXXB. Pub visited 26 August 1999.