Ribblehead

[n brown]

Hi guys, hope you arn't getting too wet up there?

Just wanted to wish you a all Very Happy New Year, enjoy your night tonight. Don't get too drunk or do anything I wouldn't do!!

Good news too, Ive rang around the local caravan dealers and the closest one too me has had a look at the skylight and has one in stock that they took off a new caravan cus the owners wanted air con. Its only the top half, they are going to keep our blind bit and fit that to it and the best bit £25!!!! It's going in on Wed's. Well chuffed.

Hope to see you all again soon and for longer than one night next time?

Have fun
Lotty

p.s. Have a drink for me, I'm now on antibiotics as ive got an ear and eye infection!!

reeeee-----sult!

 

[Oasis]

reeeee-----sult!

Brilliant - now what are you going to do with the spare cash!!!!

 

[n brown]

Brilliant - now what are you going to do with the spare cash!!!!

i heard she's going to share it amongst the members who were helpful,all we have to do is send our bank details to her!

 

[lotty]

i heard she's going to share it amongst the members who were helpful,all we have to do is send our bank details to her!

oo yes send me your bank details! It's like one of them phone scans, send me your bank details and i'll send you a surprise, honest! :lol-053:

 

[DTDog]

Finally home. All the wet clothes are out of the van. Okay, when I all the wet clothes, I mean ALL the clothes are wet!!

We all had a fantastic time, but could have done with a bit less wind and rain.

Dispite the bad weather we did manage to get two round-walks in, a train ride in to Settle and a chance to meet up and chat with some good company. I found the landlord and landlady of the Station Inn very accommodating, letting us put the vans in their car-park and always had a chat with us when we went in to the 'dog and child friendly' pub.

This is one for the Summer time, then hopefully we might get at least one dry day.

 

[Ste]

Glad y'all had a good time! Was hoping to get up for day on Friday, but never got the Gti started, think i've narrowed it down to needing a new solenoid.

But I'll have the new van finished by next month, so I hope to see y'all t the next meet!

 

[lotty]

Photo's

Just a couple of photo's (if ive attached them right?)

 

[kimbowbill]

Home n dry

Even tho i got off to a bad start it all turned out great, i think the location is fantastic, thanks to DTDog for organisng two great walks really enjoyed them, even tho it was blowing a gale and peeing it down all the time it was still great fun, i have really enjoyd myself, it was really nice to be in such good company, no pressure to do anything you dint want to do, i do think the pub was a little expensive but as jess (whitevanwoman) explained, the pub will go months without any income, i did complain a little about the prices and you did have to specifically ask for the special offer drinks or you would have got charged the full price but after chatting to the owners i found them to be really friendly, the staff were great, one of the girls brought me a towel to dry henry after one of our walks, that is excellent customer service, wonder where else you would get that service. thanks to all for making my new year most enjoyable

Jen

 

[Firefox]

Had a great time if a little wet. Went off on New Years day to visit Kangooroo as everything was getting soaked. It rained non stop new years eve.

Station Inn Pub was fantastic. Really nice food and really cheap prices eg £3.00 a pint, £1.50 pork pies, and the full menu was fabulous. Huge portions... more than most people could eat. Landlord and staff really welcoming, I can recommend anyone to go up and stay there for a few days!


Website here: The Station Inn - Ribblehead Viaduct, Ingleton, LA6 3A6

 

[Stubby]

At pub now and asked landlord if we have a few beer and a meal that we can stop on carpark yes no prob good ale try golden pippin a light ale and a local brew i try to buy local produce and support local economy

 

[Amethyst]

We have read conflicting reports in this and the other thread. I do hope that this one is correct as it is so very nice to hear that a pub is particularly M/H friendly.

I think you will find only one person had a problem and one complaining about prices which I find incredible with the house beer under £3 pound a pint and doubles of popular brands ie Gordons very cheap.I wish my local was the same price! You will not find a more motorhome friendly place especially in a main walking area where it is busy all year round. Compared with the prices in Keswick Jo and Alan are giving it away!

Rob

 

[cooljules]

I think you will find only one person had a problem and one complaining about prices which I find incredible with the house beer under £3 pound a pint and doubles of popular brands ie Gordons very cheap.I wish my local was the same price! You will not find a more motorhome friendly place especially in a main walking area where it is busy all year round. Compared with the prices in Keswick Jo and Alan are giving it away!

Rob

i think you will find there was not only one person who said they had a problem and complaining about prices..................

if you had read all the posts, it wasnt only me that was overcharged. lots of people where complaining about the date on the bottles of tonic, it was either nov 2010, or june 2010.

i didnt see any pints of housr beer under 3quid, i went from the left to the right (as i hate bitter, but detest lager even more) and each one was 3quid. seemed a little steep from what i have seen, but it was ok, so not compaining at that.

what i complained about was if you asked for a G&T you got charged a lot more, unless you pointed to the sign next to the till that said double G&T £3.50 i know of others who complained and said on here.

i never got a smile or a thankyou from the landlady.....maybe she didnt like my ugly face, who knows

the food looked good, and everyone apart from one enjoyed the meals.

 

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we stop here for a saturday night 3/4 times a year after being in skipton and always enjoyed it.

 

[lotty]

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i didnt see any pints of housr beer under 3quid, i went from the left to the right (as i hate bitter, but detest lager even more) and each one was 3quid. seemed a little steep from what i have seen, but it was ok, so not compaining [/QUOTE]



I don't know what prices you pay where you live but £3 a pint for any beer/larger is average for anywhere now? My local is £3.20/3.30 a pint or £3.50/3.60 a bottle of cider!

I was there Thrusday day and night in the pub and Friday morning and no one complained while I was there about the quality of food and drink or the attitude of the staff. My partner and I had lunch and diner in the pub and several pints and everything was lovely. Some did mention they thought the price of food was a little on the expensive side but we did not. They are a remote pub and for us being a "captive audience" they could have charged a lot more!

Did you mention to the staff or landlords about your out of date drinks and the problems you encountered? I do not think it is fair of you to complain so strongly on a public forum if you have not given them chance to put things right at the time?

 

[cooljules]

[QUOTE

i didnt see any pints of housr beer under 3quid, i went from the left to the right (as i hate bitter, but detest lager even more) and each one was 3quid. seemed a little steep from what i have seen, but it was ok, so not compaining

I don't know what prices you pay where you live but £3 a pint for any beer/larger is average for anywhere now? My local is £3.20/3.30 a pint or £3.50/3.60 a bottle of cider!

I was there Thrusday day and night in the pub and Friday morning and no one complained while I was there about the quality of food and drink or the attitude of the staff. My partner and I had lunch and diner in the pub and several pints and everything was lovely. Some did mention they thought the price of food was a little on the expensive side but we did not. They are a remote pub and for us being a "captive audience" they could have charged a lot more!

Did you mention to the staff or landlords about your out of date drinks and the problems you encountered? I do not think it is fair of you to complain so strongly on a public forum if you have not given them chance to put things right at the time?[/QUOTE]

i dont drink pints/cider etc normally, i only drink vodka but was out of my price range (thats not a complaint, im used to drinking cheap vodka and energy in pubs rather than brand and red bull) hence was on the bitter, but i had a good night, i had from some people they can go months without a customer, to others who said they are busy all year round. i didnt think the food prices were bad, not cheap cheap,but not expensive either, and what i saw the size and quality, it did look like value for money which is the main thing, we only didnt eat, as Kaye has the smallest appitite ever, we row about it here, i spend a lot of time preparing a meal and she has 2 mouthfuls, and if i take my meds and when with very bad back ache it makes me not hungry but i degress. I really did wish we had eaten there and i would next time we go we will....a couple of quid or so over a 'cheap meal' each i have no problem with, its the value for money, plus Kaye is worth a couple of extra quid.

i didnt complain about the out of date bottles of mixer as someone else says they were going too, so i didnt see if i complained too it would help. dont get me wrong, im not a stickler for BBE dates its just a point i was raising. the landlady tried charging me 4.50 for the 3.25 hot choc and baileys for our lass, until i pointed it out on the sign, now she had served 3 or 4 in the minutes before so i guess should have known the correct price. as i said i know others who raised concern about being charged totally different amounts to what was advertised. its quick to work out if its just a couple of drinks, but others said in rounds etc it took a while to work it out.

i would go back, there are places i would never go back to after very bad service. no place will be liked by a 100% of people. we had a nice time, a dog friendly pub, we liked it. just didnt like having to point at a sign to get that price it said or instead get charged much more.... some of the people are still WC at the mo in other places or not back home yet who too had the same problem.

the young bar staff were great, infact i got one of them into trouble when i told him, in ear shot of the landlady he had given me the wrong change, he gave me way TOO much change. it was hectic and busy, he was newish and doing his best.

 

[lotty]

the young bar staff were great, infact i got one of them into trouble when i told him, in ear shot of the landlady he had given me the wrong change, he gave me way TOO much change. it was hectic and busy, he was newish and doing his best.

playing Devils advocate but maybe this goes some way to explaining the mix up with prices??

 

[cooljules]

playing Devils advocate but maybe this goes some way to explaining the mix up with prices??

no, he passed me back the note i had just given him, as well as the 'correct change' it was the landlady who was charging me the different prices.

 

[Stubby]

MAybe next year jools you should stop at om an buy a cheap bottle of vody from netto an put sum heating on for kaye thats the the way to keep a woman happy an stop ya moaning may b wild camping is just not for you mate

 

[cooljules]

MAybe next year jools you should stop at om an buy a cheap bottle of vody from netto an put sum heating on for kaye thats the the way to keep a woman happy an stop ya moaning may b wild camping is just not for you mate

no it is for me, liked it for years even when i did it in a estate car around europe. we did take 2 bottles of cheap vodka and a gin we had in the campervan as well as bacon butties. i like going out in the van. she liked the pub part too. were not going to use a pub car park and not use it. ok if it needs better lighting, heating etc to make it better for her then thats what i will do. i was happy to look through the window for hours........she didnt

 

[cooljules]

There is a solution
Dont waste the very little money that you do have in a pub on drink and food.
Better to spend it on getting the M/H nice and comfortable for your partner and yourself. Then with a lot of luck, she may give it a second chance and you will have many more chances to go away and enjoy each others company.

i want to take her to cromford near matlock, i like it there and the dogs too. i dont mind not doing pubs at all. hopefully in the spring the van will be ready and we get a nice weekend and she gives it another chance