The Christopher Creeke (JD Wetherspoon), Bournemouth

Quite a reasonable Wetherspoon's, with the one medium-sized room at street level, plus tables outside, and a further room up the stairs to the right, with its own bar and roof terrace at the rear. Draught ales downstairs included a batch of regional brews along with the usual national suspects, while upstairs only the latter were present.

This one certainly isn't listed on the JDW directory as a Lloyds so I think it's safe to say it is now a normal Spoons. It certainly seemed so on my Thursday evening visit with a mix of office and manual workers in for a drink and others eating. As mentioned below it's an L shaped room that is on the small side for a JDW and has fairly typical furnishings. I completely missed that there was another area upstairs. Although the breakfasts here were £3.49 other food clubs were cheaper (Curry £5.99 & Steak £6.99). The eight hand pumps downstairs had eight festival beers. The lack of the JDW Trio Of Doom was very pleasing. I went for the Adnam's Sloe Porter and Deuchar's Imperial (£2.45 festival price) both of which were in decent nick. I thought this was a good Spoons.

Relatively well decorated L-shaped Spoons (de-branded Loyds No.1), with patterned wallpaper and third height wood panelling. Decked front terracing which at least gives a lift to the nasty 60’s block in which it’s housed. A fair range of guest ales sampled over two visits - Marstons Oyster Stout, Orkney IPA and an American collaboration ale all in decent nick. Food in good order too. A few minutes from the station and probably a bit of a default stop in context. It’s certainly better now than previous reviews might suggest.