Red Lion Hotel, Skegness

This is a detached Bateman's hotel, restaurant and pub with a rear patio area. The place looks like a Georgian coaching inn - slightly garish in its colour scheme. The building is in a plain cream upper, with cream stucco lower, with maroon quoins, window lintels and sills, as well as other paintwork. There is a front gable and a series of upper sash windows and a three lower ones breaking two entrance(with pediments). The red lion crest looks neat below the gable. The interior has three different areas with a central serving bar serving the first two areas. The main bar is in red and patterned flower wallpaper and has tables and chairs as well as the odd sofa. Saying that, there is a pool table and a couple of dart boards. The lounge is in white, wood panel and with a white and beam ceiling. There are bird paintings and a few old photos on the walls for interest and another dart board. There is, up a step from here a third room, the restaurant. It is in cream patterned wallpaper and a red carpet. I didn't see much of it and i didn't eat, so i can't comment on the food. There was no TV that i saw and there was no background music. The service was fine and there were several locals in at my visit. Beer; usual tap stuff with a decent enough Batemman's XB on handpull. A great exterior, a tidy interior with different areas for different clientele - it has the pub games, just a little sad there isn't more in the way of real ale for my personal taste.