Trinity Marina and the Brewers Fayre pub, Hinckley, seen from underneath the Coventry Road Bridge, at sunset, July 14th 2007.
The strange canalside building with the angular roof is a Brewer's Fayre pub. However, all the moorings alongside belong to Trinity Marina.
Here's the deal: You pay £5/night to the Marina, just to moor up, and then you go to the pub and spend a lot on dinner. And then you ask for a discount. But you don't get one. I asked the manager, and he said no.
The cheapskates! You'd think you'd get the price of mooring off a £50 dinner, wouldn't you? Why bother to accept their invitation to moor there overnight?
Andy of Khyamanzi had a similar sentiment a few months ago.
When they cut all the tow-path hedge down facing the Trinity Marina the view across the Ashby Canal will be vile and put people off their food and drink. Blame British Waterways (W.Midlands) and Hinckley' Council for not protecting habitat and natural screening.
Sorry, but it was a nice farm field before the 'tungsten park' mob arrived over there.
Posted by: Rog Parsons | Wednesday, 21 October 2009 at 12:15 PM
Well I guess it's not BF policy (too hard to control centrally and I imagine the local manger has all the freedom and initiative of a draught ox).
I did call in once for a couple of pints (can't remember what but quite acceptable). The local boaters maintain(ed) a 'stammtisch' furthest from the doors (and nearest the loos!)
Posted by: Martin | Wednesday, 18 July 2007 at 02:04 PM
Yes, Martin, the moorings are Trinity's. But if you've paid, what's the incentive to pay still more to eat in the pub? I think it's rubbish marketing not to offset it against the price of a meal. As far as the passing boater is concerned, the main reason for stopping at those moorings is to go to the pub.
Posted by: Andrew Denny | Wednesday, 18 July 2007 at 01:42 PM
Hang on a mo' - surely the mooring fee goes to Trinity not BF?
Posted by: Martin | Wednesday, 18 July 2007 at 01:34 PM
Aha, my turn to misunderstand Sarah :-)
Posted by: Andrew Denny | Wednesday, 18 July 2007 at 01:12 PM
Heavens Andrew, I wasn't accusing you of eating there! That would have been an insult. No, I was referring to the very possibility of spending that much on their abysmal 'fayre' - though I can see how it might have looked otherwise.
Posted by: Sarah | Wednesday, 18 July 2007 at 12:20 PM
We do get a bit blasé about that, and expect interesting photos from Andrew as a matter of course.......
Posted by: Martin | Wednesday, 18 July 2007 at 11:07 AM
Sarah,
I think you misunderstood me. I'm saying that even *were you* to have dinner there and spend £50, you will still will be charged for mooring there overnight. In other words, there's no incentive to be a customer of the pub.
No, I didn't go in. I'm alone most of the time, and when I'm alone I don't like to eat alone in public. It gets me even more sad and depressed than I normally am. My only trip inside the pub was a couple of weeks previously, when I asked the manager if one was charged the mooring fee even if one was dining, and he said yes, no matter how much you spent.
Andrew
Posted by: Andrew Denny | Wednesday, 18 July 2007 at 11:00 AM
Good picture dude!
Posted by: Maffi | Wednesday, 18 July 2007 at 10:58 AM
How can you spend fifty quid in a Brewers Fayre? Were there ten of you? Or were you just very, very ill afterwards? My mooring in Huddersfield was right by one of these ... ahem ... outlets and it was always packed, proving indeed that no one ever went bust underestimating the taste (or indeed the tastebuds) of the British public.
Posted by: Sarah | Wednesday, 18 July 2007 at 09:23 AM