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The Crown Hotel, Wells Town, Wells-Next-The-Sea
Wells-Next-The-Sea
NR23 1EX
Served areas
Reviews of The Crown Hotel (Average Rating: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
The Chairman left this review about The Crown Hotel
A nice, comfortable and spacious hotel bar on the Buttlands. Unfortunately, the beer choice has gone downhill a bit and when I visited in November the only ale on offer was Greene King IPA at £4.95 a pint.
On 18th February 2024
- rating: 6
[User has posted 30 recommendations about 30 pubs]
Please Note: This review is over a year old.
Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Crown Hotel
Upmarket hotel/restaurant/bar located at the end of the Buttlands (a sort of village green and not called Butt Cracks as my son insisted).
As you enter, there is a central corridor. Lounges to the left were for hotel guests only, whilst there were 3 rooms for drinkers (and possibly diners) to the right-hand side. The corridor continued down past a tiny lounge room on the right-hand side and toilets on the left to a more formal dining room.
The bar serves 2 of the 3 rooms to the right-hand side of the building. Bar staff were busy pulling through one of their 2 real ales (Wherry & Norfolk Topper) when we arrived.
We did consider eating here, but £30 for a steak or £23 for a piece of pork was somewhat more than I was willing to pay for a meal. Drinks prices alone almost require a mortgage.
We appear to be creating more of a two tier society in this country. Nevertheless, it is interesting to see how the other half live.
On 18th February 2022
- rating: 5
[User has posted 2452 recommendations about 2451 pubs]
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Thuck Phat left this review about The Crown Hotel
An attractive, well run, Georgian hotel on the corner of Buttlands, a delightful Georgian square.
It's a big and busy hotel run by the small and local Flying Kiwi chain but despite the size, there are function rooms to the left, a dining room to the rear and hotel accomodation in both the main building and behind, the bar, to the right of the front door, feels like a proper bar rather than a hotel add on.
There are tables outside at the front where you can watch the various activities happening on the tree lined green - dogs squatting, 4x4's reversing their laden bike racks into each other and kids playing footy, tennis and badminton. There's also a quieter terrace at the back.
The bar itself is wooden floored with modern furniture and comfy with friendly service.
Beers on were Jo C's Bitter Old Bustard and Norfolk Kiwi and Adnams Samba City. Not a huge range but both the Samba City and BOB went down very well. There's also a wide selection of gins which many of the hotel guests seemed to be enjoying.
A GBG regular that's just about worth it's entry for the ale quality rather than variety.
Wells isn't blessed with a wide variety of good alehouses but this is one of the best.
On 2nd August 2016
- rating: 7
[User has posted 679 recommendations about 678 pubs]
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Pub Details
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- Accommodation : Yes last updated 18 February 2022 by Blue Scrumpy
- Car Park : No last updated 18 February 2022 by Blue Scrumpy
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 18 February 2022 by Blue Scrumpy
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 29 July 2013 by Dave McNally
- Micropub : No last updated 18 February 2024 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 29 July 2013 by Dave McNally
- Real Cider : No last updated 18 February 2022 by Blue Scrumpy
