Cheltenham Festival
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Anyone know roughly how much a pint is on festival week and how busy are the bars on the Tuesday/Wednesday?
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The bars will be heaving whichever day you go, but less so on Tuesday/Wednesday than Thursday/Friday.
The only lager I remember them having last year and all the meetings this season is Carling, which is rubbish. |
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I was up the Paddy Power Friday with a pair of what Alan Partridge would describe as 'blonde stunners'.
Wanting to make a good impression I did something I hate doing - Queue at a sporting event for grossly overpriced drinks. Eventually got served, 2 G&T's (singles not doubles) and a beer for me. Came to £16.40. Didn't back a winner and had no luck with the girls either. |
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Probably £5 a Guinness
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The thought of waiting 12 months for the best 4 days racing in the year only to spend precious time queuing for a beer is a concept I cannot understand.
Save the boozing for the night time. |
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Not surprised you didn't get anywhere buying them singles Mr E. Schoolboy error imo.
Trebles might be pricey, but they are much more effective  |
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The only thing that ruins CHeltenham is the price of beer and the queueing, I tend not to drink anymore at the festival but sometimes when you and your group have a few winners, or a tricast up and the betting is done you fancy a pint or 2 you still have to queue like they do towards the womans toilets.
Their has to be a better way than a bartender taking orders and going back and forth 3 times to serve 5 drinks. |
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 It's funny cause your right mate! |
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Get a box, and then the birds are pouring you drinks all afternoon
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Daylight robbery 11 quid for two pints of cider at Xmas meeting.
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take a hip flask filled with a decent brandy
always does the trick for me |
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Yeah, women get their bag searched, my mancoat has more pockets than a tory mp.
8 at the last count. |
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Was a fiver a Guinness at the International, only had the one.
It depends on the weather really. If I wear a coat I do the same as Sonko and stuff some inside the coat pockets. I've managed to sneak 4 through in the past, but if it's weather like the last two festivals certainly on Days 1 and 2 anyway it's too hot for a coat so it's a bummer then. Like others have said, hip flask it, or just have a few scoops in the pub or some tins on the train beforehand and then straight on it after racing. |
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I always make sure I buy the last round in town, or 1st at the course, usually 5/6 in the company so next time I see the bar it's usually after racing has finished!
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No queuing in the Centaur and Best Mate is usually ok for service.
Ironic, the more you pay (ie Club - Golden Miller bar) the service degenerates... |
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Bladder management is one of the crucial circles of the Venn Diagram for a good day out at The Fez.
Get your drinks in early or off course, to avoid queues, expense and pi$$ing your pants by the time the 4th race comes around. |
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Plenty of people just p1ss in the glass they have just emptied.
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Can't believe some people wait all year for the festival and then moan about the price of a pint - it is what it is, just get on with it. In the grand scheme of things, does it really make any difference whatsoever if it's £3 a pint or £5 a pint, especially when it's £4 a pint to watch the racing in a pub? Might cost you an extra £30 quid or so over a few days but you're at the festival you've waited 361 days for!!!!!!
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Looking forward to seeing more of the redevelopment this March, it's looking fantastic. My favourite bar at the course ' see you then bar ' has underwent a makeover as part of the new Cheltenham, it was a bit if a dump before, served your beer within seconds, a tote in the corner if you couldn't make it to the betting ring with 19 inch TV on the wall, lots of great memories in there, revillez doing the business and turning a bad festival around is a great memory from that bar. It's now no longer a dump, it's all fancy and sparkly and it's mobbed, when we walked in last March we were stunned, but I suppose all things move on!!
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What are the queuing arrangements like at bars at Cheltenham? A free for all i'm guessing?! At Chepstow they have whatever the bloody hell you call those barrier things when you queue to check in baggage at an airport. Bars were busy but worked pretty well and served quickly.
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£4.50 a pint
As mentioned during racing its a rugby scrum 20 minutes wait Either drink before/after or sacrifice 1 race Going Wednesday-i be missing the cross country race YEHA Result |
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IF there's a few of ye slip them a score ye won't wait long
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especially when it's £4 a pint to watch the racing in a pub You must go to some expensive pubs Tory!!!
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You either wait all year for the Fez, post (ad nauseam) how may days it is to the sart of the Supreme and how you feel like a kid at Christmas etc.
....or you see the Fez as an adjunct to your drinking habit. |
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The problem for me when being there, is there's sod all to do between races.
You can try and make your way to the parade ring, but it's normally too busy, and then you lose your vantage point for the race, or you go for a drink and spend 20 mins queing and then having to down a Guiness in time for the next race because you can't take your pint anywhere near the track. Also, you can watch a few reruns of the last race and the odds on the big screen (muted usually), but no build up to the next race on the big screen at all. They could at least put the RUK coverage or CH4 coverage on the big screen with the sound over the speakers considering you are paying £75 for club. |
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For me taking your own drink in isn't just about saving money, it saves on the queueing as well, and also sticking two fingers up at the daft rule of not being allowed to take a drink near the betting ring or in the stands. Queues would massively diminish if that were allowed to happen.
Some 'racing enthusiasts' do really grate on me sometimes though. Trying to make out they're oh so bigger, better and more passionate for the sport than you because they stay dry all week, boohoo for you. To some of these people touch a drop of alcohol on festival days and you're a raging alcoholic who can't stop drinking. I'm well aware of some of the morons who attend the big meetings these days, there are more than your fair share of plebs about who can drink themselves into oblivion and at times it's embarrassing, basically your "yaya/kolo toure" singing types. Hipsters with their terrible blazers, beards and haircuts who think they're oh so swag by using a day at the races to flaunt to others how fantastic their life is on social media. Taking selfies everywhere, backing 6/4 shots and then telling everyone how they know the game so well if they hose up. Those clowns infest every sport and are the sort of people who wind me up as much as they do to any super duper sober racing enthusiast. But just because some people like a chilled few beers with mates you're somehow tarnished with the same disorderly alcoholic brush by some of these "get in the car, go racing and go home" sorts. Please turn it in. |
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Best rant I've seen in a while and you're absolutely spot on ^
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Agree entirely with Satrus. It's the biggest drinking week of the year for me, always has been. Doesnt mean i dont love the sport and the occasion with a passion.
Regarding the bar prices, yes its expensive but theyve got us by the short and curlies so just get on with it i say! |
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Or, y'know, don't....
It's our week away from 'The World', so do exactly what you like, only don't expect to be able to get a bet on, get a drink / food, have a slash and watch a race from where you want any time after about 1.00 p.m. Choose. |
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I've noticed a few of your posts lately, Satrus...and I like what I read.
Keep kicking. |
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Guinness £5.20 a pint in The Arkle Bar last Saturday!
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£5 pints is just something universal at sport now which i reluctantly accept. Its the bloody 20p that irritates me, its awkward for me, its awkward for them giving 80p change, its just awkward. £10.40 and £20.80 rounds are the absolute bane of this world.
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Jb23, agree totally, make it £5 a pint across the board, bar staff will have more time to serve beer!
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