searching for pint in depressing Luton!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- I walk around Luton in London in search of a decent pub. I check out the center and see a few shopping trolleys, some run down buildings and one of the best pubs I have ever been in! Join Me!
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I'll tell you what I like about this bloke. He doesn't deliberately go out of his way to piss people off like some other TH-camrs who think filming makes them untouchable. Nice down-to-earth personality and respectable to other people. Well done mate keep it up.
Cheers pal, really appreciate that 👍
Yeah and his comments section is good as well. Not toxic. Seems to have attracted decent people. 👌
Cracking sense of humour as well...very dry!
Agreed 👍🏻 Nice to see he doesn't feel the need for all the "i'm a really nice guy" virtue signalling too. Kindness in return for views/ad revenue really irritates me and i'm glad he told that woman "i can't". Refreshing.. 😂
Here here I agree down to earth & factual info no bullsh----t the sort of bloke you could have a pint with
What bugs me about pubs is that a lot of bar staff won't make eye contact or acknowledge you when you walk to the bar. They almost deliberately look anywhere but your direction.Then when they are free they say 'whose next?' after standing waiting like a plum for 10 minutes to get served on a week day, well if you paid attention you'd see who was next. That's why it's great to get table service. That was a lovely welcome.
You sound like an annoying mong, maybe thats why you don't get served
The rise in smartphone usage has caused people’s social skills to plummet. It’s one of the most serious problems facing humanity that isn’t being addressed.
whos next is the greeting at my local pub, used to be what would sir like, plus NONE of the staff interact with the customers
Getting pretty addicted to these vids. The castle looked like a class dive/local music venue.
Keep up the good work pal.
Cheers pal, yeh deffo one of the best on the channel
NO I THINK NOT.
Its like Pakistan/India with a British touch 😃
Well isn't this a nice surprise! Thanks for visiting us Danny and we're glad you enjoyed your pint of Guinness in a place we're proud of. If you ever want to come and experience some bands or our nightlife, just get in touch and we'll figure it out :)
Yeh i wasn't staying long unfortunatly. Love a good pub with personality and loved my quick pint in there 👍 Thanks for giving my dog some treats also 🤣🍺
used to live in luton for 8 years and the castle is one of the good pubs in the town centre, try the george by the train station or the jolly toppers also a nice pub
Yeh afew people said those pubs too 👍🍺
Used to drink in the Moon & Sixpence in Stopsley. For a boy from Frankston, Australia, it felt like home. Come On You Hatters! 🎩😎
Nice welcome in the Castle, makes a huge difference when you walk into an unknown Boozer
Yeh. 100% mate
State of this place I went in last night, silence, moody staff everyone staring it was so bad was out of there before I finished my pint (it was shite anyway) Luckily was in about 7 great pubs before that 😆worst atmosphere I've ever seen. It's the last pub on the way back to the station apparently last time I said I'd never go in again but didn't remember for obvious reasons
@@realmyka Great Northern is good on the left back to the station!
Penthouse apartment overlooking FarmFoods! 😂😂😂😂
Best of the best
As a Luton local I’m glad you came down and gave us our time to shine . The castle is not too bad and is about the only thing going for us .
you Live in heaven mate .. trust me im from Middlesborough ... lol.
Luton used to be great
But so did many English towns. They like the country itself is an overpriced immigrant fcking shithole.
I lived in Luton around 1989 great drinking town, lot's of Irish pubs 🇮🇪 the arndale center and market still looking busy
I lived in Luton for 7-8 years growing up, used to go to the Purley Tavern on a Friday night, ahhhh the memories 😊
Marsh Farm?
Yeah, or The Favourite in sundown park
@@DanDanColeman85 i remember the Purley Centre
Best pub on earth
@@DanDanColeman85both long gone flattened now, many others too.
Took a drink every time he says "Cheeky" in his videos. Now i need an AA meeting 🤣😛 Another great video mate. Keep em coming.
Did i really say it that much? 🤣
That was a CHEEKY comment 🤪
I can't unhear "half decent" 😂
The Castle Is actually alright. It's where the outsiders which are way nicer and cooler then the standard Luton people go for a night out. We stumbled upon it when we had to stay the night in Luton once
Wish i went late at night
Funny thing is. Within a few miles lies some of the most expensive places to live in the UK. Harpenden, St Albans etc.
Same with most places init
Good on you for not being one of those annoying people who deliberately get a rise of people. You just the places, and how they behave, and give honest feedback on how the pubs were, and you seem absolutely down to earth. Good on you pal for growing a good following, and the community is pretty good as well. Cheers to you mate
Best pub in Luton is the Bricklayers Arms in the High Town area two minutes walk from the station.
Dingy?
@markspencer9165 good shout and the Painters for the best Guinness
That Castle pub looked quality!
I've been to most places in the UK, never set in foot in Luton though, don't think I'm missing out too much.
Nah not worth the visit
luton is not the UK
Been binging your videos for a while now. Something about seeing run down spit and sawdusts that aren't where I live is proper appealing lol. Class act mate keep at it👊
Cheers pal, really appreciate it
Flames used to be The Wellington. My old regular. Was part of the darts team years ago. So many laughs!!
My band played at the Castle about 15 years ago, nice little rock pub
Bet band night is bangin
Looks half decent, few pints in there you'll forget you're in Luton.
That's the idea 🤣
Just watched your Belfast video as I’m going next month and saw this. I live in Luton and you just went to my favourite pub. Some cracking nights there, thanks for bigging it up !
Used to live in Luton many years ago and The Castle was one of my go to boozers. Probably the most thriving pub in town mainly due to catering to the alternative crowd
Yeh looks like it's bangin at night
If you liked the rock theme pub in Luton. You have to see the Yardbirds club in Grimsby after a couple of pints in Freeman Street. Rough as hell pubs then great music, great beer and above all great welcome at the Yardbirds. Run by bikers who actually built the place up from scratch but you won't meet more genuine people anywhere. Yes they do serve Guinness and once you know someone in there you can guarantee a 'What's yours mate' from someone you met 5 minutes ago.
Brilliant videos, really enjoying them cheers!!
Cheers pal, really appreciate it 👍
Outskirts of Luton are very nice, upmarket. Bramingham, Stopsley , Bushmead, very nice.
£1 goes towards a Guinness that... ffs i just spat my coffee out all over my dashboard, cheers 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Can't be giving out freebie's 🤣
She may have offered you a hand shandy for it? 😂 @@honestplaces
@@honestplacesBrutal. 🤣
"Coffin there... if I've too many Guinness" 🤣 By far my favourite channel these days. You've got a really good personality for it too - nothing too biased or overly opinionated, but at the same time, fair judgement - complimentary when deserved, critical when needed. I love how the roughest of places are often full of the loveliest locals and barstaff. Honest places, as you say! Give me a shout if you are ever going to brave the pubs of Belfast lol Cheers for another great video dude.
Give Northampton a go, pretty run down but the Wellinborough road near the centre has over 10 pubs on about a 1 mile stretch.
Sounds a sesh that!
I've worked all over the UK for the last 25 years and there's not many places I haven't stayed or visited and Luton is easily the worst place I've ever been.
Jesus. That is a statement
Where I'm from ain't great, but yeah Luton is pretty grim.
Center of Luton looks alright not rough or nothing tbf
That's ME sat at the table lol
Famous now 🤣
@@honestplaces Weird shit happens to me all the time. I just had the video link pop up on Facebook ffs
One of the biggest dirt pits in Britain Luton without a doubt.
Not far off
From Glasgow to Luton, that’s a well travelled path by many.
Fuel bill is a joke 🤣
@@honestplaces 😆
That Castle Boozer looks the business. The Solid Rock in Glasgow is a great hard rock/metal boozer. 🤘
Yeh was boss. Missed that in glasgow 😭
@@honestplaces Next time maybe. The good in there is shit hot too.
If you like the Castle - You'll LOVE the Crew in Nuneaton.
It bangin?
Good to see you a bit further south sir
Took ages to get there 😭
Love this channel. Respect, he’s putting his liver on the line so that we don’t have to waste our time visiting places. Gladly donate to the channel so yoi can have a pint on me 💪🏻
🤣🤣🤣 liver holding out upto now
@@honestplaces legend mate. Cheers for taking the time to reply as well. 🍺
Great Video again mate 👍👍 That Castle pub looks class. We have a similar sort of pub on the Wirral called Molly Chambers
Cheers pal, yeh proper boozer
Glad to see what The Castle looks like inside! Stayed in Luton a night on way back from very late flight and exhausting travel. We went to pub opposite The Castle to eat and it was early. Will have to check out The Castle next time and when it's open! We did visit The Wheelwright Arms and that was pretty nice, though.
I grew up next to Hockwell Ring (Vincent Rd) in the early sixties through to the early seventies. If you were looking for trouble you would get it in The Man on Wheels in Hockwell Ring.
I had a good feeling about "The Castle" glad you went in there looks a good boozer!
You know you are watching an Honest Places video when you hear these key words or phrases:
Dingy Pub
Dodgy Place
Mooch About
Pick up your Rubbish
Let’s see what’s Kicking off
Hit all 5 and shout Bingo
These videos will catch on mate brilliant viewing
Hope so! Cheers pal 👍
Love watching you.what a world we are living in.And you are so nice to people.❤
That pub looked like my sort of place. I think you've made me want to visit the town. thanks 👍
i have never been this early, hello from new zealand love the videos mate
Early bird! Better viewing time for you over there!
9pm Friday night so not bad at all 👌
I was expecting worse with grim in the title, didnt look 2 bad, perhaps try grimsby next time 😅
Grimsby is soon 🤣
Love a walk around Luton once in a while. Very humbling.
In the morning before the riff raff
Recent subscriber and really enjoying the videos. A great combination of having a nose in (mostly) places I’ve not visited and a cheeky beer or five.
Or 5 🤣 cheers pal
Looks like Afghanistan
It aint that good 🤣
@@honestplaces the weather is better over there!
I once stayed the night in Luton as I had an early morning flight. I popped out for a few beers and something to eat and I swear to god I saw seven different piles of sick in a couple of hours.
Typical week day that 🤣
@@honestplaces You should do Ashton-under-Lyne near Manchester.....now that is a shit hole (I managed to escape over a decade ago! 😂)
Down to earth bloke says it how it is IV just started following this fella he's👌👌👌
Cheers pal. Appreciate it
Used to go to the castle pub along with the George 2nd during my uni days can’t believe it’s changed a lot
As posh ūberdik Lloyd Grossman used to say ‘who’d live in a place like this?’
Luton is indeed grim. Had to go there with work last year a few times. Even on a sunny day with a clear blue sky it looked a dump. Nothing pleasant about the place at all. It has everything you don’t want.
Feel everyone says that 🤣
Luton is the best town in the world, only far right racists complain about the Great town of Luton
Stockwood Park Discovery Centre is fantastic as are a couple of other parks.
Good to see you down south mate! Just so you know Luton is not in London as your description suggests, It's in the county of Bedfordshire, it just has ties to London because of the airport (which is only called London Luton Airport because of it's close-ish proximity to London) Keep the vids coming bro 👊
Need to change that name 🤣
A bit like Glasgow Prestwick 😂
@@honestplaces It’s stupid lol in fact there’s a whole bloody county (Hertfordshire) in between Luton and London, but it is still close especially for tourists coming from bigger countries
Less than 30 miles from London's centre. And Luton is closer to parts of London than some parts are to others. In many definitions it counts as part of the greater London region
noone deserves luton :( hope u recovered speedily
Yep definitely looked a decent pub that!
Was pal, even better on a weekend!
Castle is great, should try the bricklayers or painters too
Not many pubs left in Luton as 50% of the population is culturally against it.
The other half gets it from the supermarket and drinks in their pit.
about 15 years back luton had an alright night scene... its dead now... castle has always been fairly decent... i used to work as a doorman at flame over a decade ago... was great back then but its gone right down hill in recent years
Try Rochdale town center on a week day afternoon....Go on, I dare you.
Going to, not far from me that
The expression kicking off means fighting so you should say let's go an see whats going on
Football kicks off, gigs kick off. It just means something or an event is starting, not necessarily fighting.. lol
Cheers for the back-up 🤣
@@Nickmk6one mostly fighting though lol
@@garyrigby21 Handbags 🤣
@@Nickmk6one in pub lingo, it only means one thing - fighting!
The Castle is a great pub/venue. Does a great deal of good for the live music scene. I was a regular there when I lived in Luton and still go when I can.
Harpenden a few miles from Luton is beautiful. Tons of pubs and restaurants. I am not joking when i say it may as well be in another country or planet. That's how much different Luton is to Harpenden. My friends live in Luton and we never drink in Luton when i visit as the atmosphere in the pubs now that most of the Irish have left is not nice. It can be quite tense at weekends so we go to Harpenden or St Albans and it's a great night out.
Luton is now like Milton Keynes, they have tons of strangers in the pubs so you don't recognise people in the town centre pubs because anybody with common sense and local connections has left Luton years ago. First time I visited the casino in Luton they let in about 20 men in two groups and it all kicked and one had a glass smashed over his head. Do not go out pubbing in Luton at the weekend it's like the Wild West. My friend who still lives in Luton has been assualted numerous times and so only goes to his local pub about 4 miles from Luton centre. I could go on but it's not the Luton of the 80's sadly.
Boss read that pal, alot of info. That casino night sound a right mare 🤣
Harpenden hasn't been infiltrated by scum
Yet.
yes Luton and Harpenden are very different because Luton is Amazing and Harpenden is sh*t that's the difference
@The_wolf2885 very funny. Just for a moment you almost had me there.
The Castle. Decent.
Born and bread from Luton moved out of in 2009 which could be in some eyes the worse year for Luton for may reasons I moved up but it looks like it gotten slightly better over years unfortunately it’s still getting picked for top 10 or top 5 roughest places to live in the uk 😂
The xchange was banging back in the day. Spent many an hour queuing up that wall along the ABC.
Thanks for sharing mate you do some good videos all the best from me in Birmingham 😊
Cheers pal 👍
I'm glad you're honest, just saying what you see. And that doesn't mean just feeding the comment section racists for the sake or being controversial and getting some easy views.
The castle looks a top boozer
I lived near Luton 1st moved to Dunstable in the mid 70s then to Caddingdon a small ish village then in the 80s left the area the place was a dump then , my husband played rugby for Stockwood Park in Luton ,we avoided the shopping centre it was dreadful dirty, lots of little not a nice place to be in. I don’t think it’s gone downhill it’s always been rubbish literally people have no pride in the place
My kind of pub 😎
Bangin
Bro that pound you give comes back ten fold
Not to a druggie it doesn't
@@honestplaces no judgement here. Love your stuff!! Peace
UK cities are so interesting, we never go to the malls in the States and there's no such thing as a city center here. There's downtown.
I used to be a barman at the exchange about 18 years ago. It was always busy on a Friday/ Saturday night but had started to die down about a year or two after I’d left.
Crazy it still looks like that after all this time
it was a doss hole in mid 90s boss. spent three years three as ex-polytechnic in town feel sorry for folks live there. Grim
Look at her with the dumbbells she must be about 100 or dead 🤣
Auditing Britain was there a few days ago and put 2 coppers and 2 pcso’s in their place,funny video and worth a watch
Have to say pub looked decent cheers 🍺 bud
How much was the pint? Intrigued to know how much a pint in Luton is compared to central London
Think it was like £5 😬
Brilliant videos mate .looking forward to seeing more ,be careful in these towns the locals dont take kindly to infidels you will be a minority ,
Cheers pal...i can run fast 🤣
Love that you said "lets have a look" when she asked "what can i get uou?"
Like it was gonna be anything other than Guinness
Habit init
Didn’t look that bad on the surface.
The locals do like to wear their hoods up ! Must be cold in Luton. 🤣
Nah not too bad, but yeh some dodgy people about
Btw i walked into that food part of the mall almost got sick from the smell of the place! Had to vacate the place quickly!
Maybe my nose was blocked 🤣
Great videos lad. What camera or mount do you use for the shots of yourself?
Dji pocket 2 lad
@@honestplaces sound, seems to do the trick. Indoors footage is grand too, though that's a different device is it not. I seen you have one mounted on your chest.
Anyway, it's good dynamic footage and you capture the atmosphere well. Cheers
Alright pal, have you checked out Hartlepool and Horden? Pretty ropey round there would make a good video or two 👍🏼
Nah, been as a kid but heard it aint the best!
Good night from Australia 🇦🇺
Take it easy pal 👍🍺
Went to a gig at The Hat Factory couple of years ago, pub opposite that was decent George 2nd I think it’s called, Castle was great as well!
Another honest review nice one pal roll on the next one 🎉🎉
Cheers pal 👍
How does the pride pub look halfway decent?
Just does
@@honestplaces nah...
If You Liked This should try The Galleon In Blackpool Town Centre. Similar Vibe
Must have missed that on my Blackpool trip
It's amazing pubs aren't haram due to the demographic replacement in Luton (and all towns and Cities tbf).
I'm sure we're from the same part of Manchester, you talk just like my lads... 😊
Stockport pal
@@honestplaces my youngest is living in Stockport.
Try bridlington . I only went for a week in April and witnessed a dawn drugs raid, drug dealing on the train to Beverely and police wandering the town with assault rifles.
Been years ago, may be worth a re-visit
Bridlington has gone too far down the pan to bother going anymore.
Love your videos man, would of loved to of given you some pointers for Luton. A great pint of Guinness in hightown, the painters arms. 👍🏽💪🏽
Decent channel this and you go about it really well and respectful. Refreshing to see!! The Bricklayers is the best pub in Luton and the best ale too. The Black Horse ain't too bad......btw, Luton is deffo not in London (despite what the airport says) :-) keep up the good work pal!
Got to come to Wolverhampton mate. Some great city centre pubs.
Any good?
@honestplaces Posada, The Giffard, Duke of York, The Wheatsheaf, Great Western. The Plough and Harrow would be right up your street too. A few gooduns outside town and all.
Avoid on matchdays!
I live in wolves you should visit most depressing place in England... nobody on the streets can speak English
@glynsmith5508 What bollocks 🤣