The Waiting Room @ Queen Hotel, Chester

pretty boring bar of prominent hotel outside Chester station, it dispensed two real ales from Weetwood of which Cheshire Cat was fine. not pub like but with a nice range of seating it’s comfortable enough to wait in here before your train and less rowdy than the Town Crier.

Official site of The Waiting Room (Queen Hotel) - www.queenhotelchester.com

Official site of The Waiting Room (Queen Hotel) - www.queenhotelchester.com

As noted, this is the public bar for a hotel therefore its quite different from its neighbouring, more down to earth pub, The Town Crier, opposite. A quite plush room is accessed via the City Rd entrance and is to your right. A couple of real ales were available. Not really a place to go unless you're staying here or waiting for a train.

This is the bar in the hotel in which we stayed. Despite the heritage credential of the Queen Hotel, this felt very much the hotel bar which it is. But it’s comfortably furnished, and usually does a couple of real ales although only Cheshire Cat was on when I looked in. You can eat in here - not that we did, but the condiments on the tables was the clue. The main plus for this bar is that it’s very handily placed for the train station, and has its own entrance to the street in City Road. I expect that I might end up in here again.