The Bank House - Cheltenham

Visited 27th November 2010.

 

Being on holiday means different things to different people, for me it's the chance to visit a few new pubs and for Mrs S it's the chance to do a little shopping. Fortunately 'The Wetherspoon Challenge' allows us both to get our own way. After a little fussing around we managed to find somewhere to park and after a short walk we are in the town centre. Cheltenham turns out to be a nice place to visit with plenty for Mrs S to do! The Bank House also turns out to be a nice place to visit although very busy. In fact it was so busy it took us a fair while to find somewhere to sit. We liked the place a lot, modern inside with a nicely mirrored staircase leading to the first floor which is where we eventually ended up sitting and it is where I also saw something happen that I have never seen before in a pub.A queue formed at the bar! It's a shortish bar but still wide enough for several people to stand at, but no, a queue formed. It was like being at the post office, even to the point where a young lad walked passed the queue and up to the bar and was immediately told by almost everybody in the queue to get to the back and wait his turn. Eventually the line was served and things reverted back to normal as the the next few customers stood waiting along the length of the bar counter. In my many, many years of visiting pubs I've never seen this happen before... There is a second pub to visit in Cheltenham and having finished our refreshment we set off to find it. We start walking but keep getting sidetracked by the market stalls and then start to wonder how much time we have left on the parking ticket. We can't remember so abandon the search and backtrack to the car park where we find that we only had about ten minutes left , wow good call! Enough of this walking, we decide to drive to the next pub despite it being less then half a mile away...

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