The Packet Station (JD Wetherspoon), Falmouth

Large modern Wetherspoon's with lots of room on two floors which feels like one of their better-run outlets. There is a small patio at the back but mainly occupied by smokers. The range of ales was reasonable and included a couple of local ones, and were in good condition.

This is a two floor Spoons set on the site of an old indoor market so is probably purpose built from scratch. It's a modern looking room with lots of wood and fairly typical furnishings. I didn't investigate the upstairs bar. I did notice that the food here was not as expensive as some of their other Cornish outlets. It had a steady trade on a November Friday afternoon. The ten hand pumps downstairs had the JDW Trio Of Doom doubled, Brewster's Seventh Heaven, Cornish Chough Fire Raven, the inevitable Dartmoor Jail Ale and Marston's Old Empire. I went for the Cornish Chough beer (£2.29) which was in good nick. The beer choice could have been better here but it was out of season. It seems to be a good enough Spoons.

We did'nt find The Packet Station until Sunday morning and then it was my wife who spotted,so we straight in just before 10.30am. Once inside there is a squarish shaped room with the bar on the left side,the floor is carpeted,there are tall tables and chairs near the bar and normal tables and chairs elsewhere,plus some amercan diner seating,there is a decent sized room upstairs with its own bar,this room was open all week. There were the three Spoons regular real ales on the bar all week,Abbot,Doom Bar and Ruddles Best. Over the week on different visits we had Bays Gold,Tintangle Cornwalls Pride,Skinners Lushingtons,Exmoor Gold and Skinners Cornish Knocker. We both really liked this Wetherspoons. Pub visited 13/8/2017