Newbury Racecourse Reviews Summary

Location & Accessibility

Pros:

• "This is a great location for a hospitality event as the M4 provides a huge area reachable in under 2 hours."
• "Another bonus is the adjacent rail station."
• "Easy to get to and plenty of parking."
• "Just an hour away from Paddington by train."
• "Train station within close proximity of race course. Parking facilities close by."
• "Parking was easy and free and with the digital tickets access at the main gate was easy too."
• "Good transport links 20mins from Reading station."

Cons:

• "3 hour round trip to attend the Christmas Carnival, and all I can say is that I will never get them 3 hours back."
• "Also could do with another exit for cars when leaving after a gig."

Food & Drink

Pros:

• "So much to choose from if you want to eat, from street food to fine dining, it’s all here."
• "The catering is very quick and the food has always been good."
• "The food was excellent 🙌 to the chefs that lamb melted in the mouth!"
• "The pizza place was amazing, quick service and lovely food."
• "Many food and drink outlets at reasonable prices."
• "Had a lovely day there second time I've been the food is good and the drinks are quite reasonably priced."
• "The food and drinks were reasonably priced."

Cons:

• "Prices seemed a little extreme, £17 for a double and a single drink."
• "The only downside was that the food was quite expensive and that it wasn't really kids friendly."
• "Food is a bit pricey and there is only a limited selection of alcohol."
• "And shame that the food sellers were putting their prices sky high."
• "On this occasion there was a real shortage of food options."
• "Meal is horrible, main course is too salty and tiny potion, dessert is rubbish taste chocolate cake."
• "The choice of beer was poor than other years. The choice of food was also poor."

Entertainment & Events

Pros:

• "So much fun! I had a day out here at the races and also saw Craig David!"
• "Craig David (Southampton's finest) with close to the stage access just topped a perfect day out with my wife."
• "Excellent venue for a summer's evening racing."
• "Great day out for all the family, now open for race goers."
• "Went to see the launch of the Poppy Appeal, had a great day."
• "We did enjoy ourselves - would definitely go again."
• "It was an amazing memorable day and I will definitely do it again!"

Cons:

• "Was annoyed by the fact that they closed all the bars nearly an hour before his set finished."
• "It was very busy and hard to find a seat and hear the race commentary."
• "Only gripe would be when they have their music events, the entry price is hiked up, and gets maybe too busy!"
• "17 min show was good not great, 30 mins or so delayed start."
• "Very expensive drinks (£6.95 a pint) slow service by kids (not their fault) in paper cups."
• "Paid for premier tickets and what a disgrace the bar was."
• "What a shambles it was !!!!"

Service & Staff

Pros:

• "The vendors are so helpful and patient."
• "Staff were brilliant."
• "Great day out had a lovely meal in the hennesy with really friendly staff."
• "The restaurant staff were brilliant & Holly looked after us so well with my husband's dietary need so we didn't have to rush each course."
• "The security were great (very active and polite)."
• "The staff were super friendly and helpful."
• "Very helpful and friendly staff, excellent breakfasts and light meals."

Cons:

• "At one point the bar lady serving our section had disappeared because she couldn't handle the situation."
• "There did not appear to be enough bar staff on to cope with the number of visitors."
• "No good communication from office, email auto reply? phone for2 today's answer machine then someone spoke3days later was not impressed."
• "Our hostess for the day was not up to your usual standard the whole day was very disappointing."
• "Spent yesterday at The Armed Services meeting, very poor service, beers and refreshments served by very inexperienced staff."
• "The staff were clueless and unhelpful."
• "Whilst I appreciate that bar staff are not experienced in their roles most just appear totally incompetent."