DESPITE the bad weather set to plague the bank holiday weekend, I’ve found the best spot to hole up in.
The Wetherspoons pub in is one of my favourite places to go when the weather is miserable – and its the largest of its kind in the UK.
The Royal Victoria Pavilion, now a Grade-II listed building, was originally a concert hall and assembly room when built in 1903.
It was said to have been inspired by the Little Theatre in .
A newspaper article stated: “Marie Antoinette’s Little Theatre at inspired the original interior of the Royal Victoria Pavilion.”;;
It then into a nightclub, then a casino, before closing in 2008.
Nearly 10 years later, it was bought by who opened it as a pub in 2017 after a £4.5million renovation.
It is right on the beach so if the rain eases up at all, it makes a great spot to walk up and down after a big lunch.
Living down the road in Folkestone, I’ll always stop in at the pub when I’ve over in Ramsgate – especially when its one of the few places you can get a glass of for under a fiver these days.
But even without the pub garden right on the sand, the huge pub has more than enough space.
Spread across two floors, there are 907 tables which means a huge 1,500 people can visit at one time.
And the best views line the walls of the pub, which overlook the harbour.
There are even two bars – one upstairs and one downstairs – so you don’t have to go too far.
Last year it underwent a £750,000 renovation which includes new carpets and tables, as well as a new tea bar and more plants.
Manager Chris Whitbourn said: “It was important that we did the external redecorations to keep it looking good for the whole of the town.
“Doing the garden has been something we wanted to do for a long time and just with the timing of it, we could do it all at once.
opened its first pub in 1979 with a branch in north London and now it has 809 branches across the UK.
There are also plans for planning to make up to 50 new ““, like the pub in Ramsgate.
