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Victoria Hotel, Dorchester
Dorchester
DT1 2NA
Reviews of Victoria Hotel (Average Rating: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
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E TA left this review about Victoria Hotel
A Victorian red brick hotel near the town centre, presumably once mainly serving the nearby railway station, but now a down-market back street local. The is a grass area at the front with table and chairs, but it falls short of being a nice garden and feels more like a sad attempt at a park in a housing estate. Inside, there is a small public bar with a pool table, dart board and large TV screen, which was showing live football. The occupants of this bar were mainly young male morons with the speaking skills of a laryngitic warthog, who were failing to play a decent game of pool and trying to drown out the awful noise coming from the juke box. An array of sports trophies, a couple of cricket bats above the bar and some football shirts crucified to the ceiling hinted at something better, but it wasn’t clear whether this was times past or a different crowd. The saloon bar is slightly larger, and that was full of feral families. There is also a skittle alley at the rear, but this wasn’t open when we visited. The solitary barmaid was overworked and appeared under-appreciated. It’s still a Marston’s pub, so at least the beer was decent – six pumps across the two bars, but only two ales on, Razorback and Ringwood Best, both in good condition. There was also factory cider from Inch and Thatcher’s, plus two premium lagers, Carlsberg and Guinness. There are more appealing pubs nearby.
On 3rd March 2023
- rating: 5
[User has posted 3285 recommendations about 3250 pubs]
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rick green left this review about The Victoria
a two bar pub with good quality letting rooms and a large confrence room. the bars are one sports bar with sky sports pool table dart boards and a adjoining skittle alley. plus a lounge bar laid out with comfortable seating and quite music, real ales, good menu,close to town center and train stations
On 29th February 2008
- rating: 10
[User has posted 2 recommendations about 2 pubs]
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- Facebook - The Victoria Hotel Dorchester DT1 2LW
- CAMRA WhatPub :: Victoria Hotel - whatpub.com
Dorchester South, 0.57 miles, 10 min walk (show)
Upwey, 4.9 miles, 1 hr 34 min walk (show)
Pub Details
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- Accommodation : Yes last updated 29 February 2008 by hondo .
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 21 January 2023 by E TA
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 21 January 2023 by E TA
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 21 January 2023 by E TA
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 21 January 2023 by E TA
- Car Park : No last updated 21 January 2023 by E TA
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 21 January 2023 by E TA
- Darts : Yes last updated 29 February 2008 by hondo .
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 21 January 2023 by E TA
- Function Room : Yes - Skittle alley - last updated 21 January 2023 by E TA
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 29 February 2008 by hondo .
- Jukebox : Yes last updated 21 January 2023 by E TA
- Karaoke : Yes last updated 04 May 2015 by Dave McNally
- Live TV Sports : Yes last updated 29 February 2008 by hondo .
- Micropub : No last updated 21 January 2023 by E TA
- Pinball : No last updated 21 January 2023 by E TA
- Pool Table : Yes last updated 29 February 2008 by hondo .
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 29 February 2008 by hondo .
- Real Cider : No last updated 21 January 2023 by E TA
- Wheelchair Access : No last updated 21 January 2023 by E TA
- WiFi : Yes - Marston’s own - last updated 21 January 2023 by E TA
