Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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Your understanding and mine, Ross, are completely at odds. All is not well within....
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I believe the seasports centre cafe was open when I drove past this afternoon ?
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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I walked past there yesterday, and saw a couple go in there, but on looking back after passing, I couldn`t see many, if any, tables occupied, despite the number of people about.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Just seen the advert in the Express that the Seasports Centre is open til 5pm daily....... like to spend the afternoon out and about and the end with a coffee somewhere, so 5pm ??
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I would have thought that with our summer evenings, it would have stayed open till much later.
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Well yes lads disappointing closing time but if you hark back to the other thread on whether or not we are a tourist destination/resort...you might remember myself bemoaning the deserted nature of the place down here. The seafront is empty a lot of the time and in the evenings it can be a barren desert. Somebody would need to break the mould and try opening and try attracting people down here as an evening venue but it would need to be something good...and that takes real money
Millers has managed it, there is real life in The Premier Inn, to give it its real title these days. But remember it has national chain money behind it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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just spotted that, closing at 5 pm indeed.
surely the warm summer evenings would lure in a good clientele, assuming that they know it will be open of course.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Hopefully the new management will take these comments on board and give back some life to that end of the seafront while the Churchill Hotel is in limbo. It could really take off, but 5pm? who came up with that corker ..............
Sorry to disagree, but 5pm is about right when considering folks are either returning home from work or are already there and ready for tea or evening meal. The noshery in Kearsney Garden, a real hub of activity during the day, closes at 4pm, and the lack of bodies in the park testifies to that being a sensible decision.
If the Prom is a "barren desert" maybe the opeing hours reflect that fact.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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sid
people like a walk along the promenade of a summers evening, many more will do so if they can have a chilled beer or wine looking out over the harbour.
Chilled being the operative word I suspect. Seriously though, there probably isn't enough footfall to make it viable to open at that time. We can no longer get government handouts for such things, even if run by vegetarian gays!
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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This is the seafront a few minutes ago..just before 6.30 in fact. As you can see very few people about, even though its been one of the hottest days of the year. Everyone clears off by six...apart from a few stragglers, so where the customers would come from for the Seasports Centre should it remain open is anyones guess. With The Churchill closed that end now too, its very empty generally in the evenings. The exception being at the Millers end...where people are still sitting out in the sun enjoying a glass.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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A nice crowd round the White Horse this afternoon/evening. I left around 18.30, and as PaulB says above, the sea front somewhat deserted. Beautiful day weatherwise, and evening, enjoy it, as the evening`s will soon be drawing in.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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chicken and egg paul, why would anyone go along the sea front with just millers at the far end open.
since the churchill closed there has been not one place to get a beer or coffee.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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There has Howard, and wine. Ask Jeanette mate!
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Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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I believe a contributory factor is the construction work going on along the promenade - you can't actually take a stroll along the seaside without having to stray onto the road, and if you have kids, dogs or elderly folks with you, that's not an option. The works in front of Waterloo Mansions are very near to completion, so that may change.
I should also point out that Jasin's Restaurant in the SeaSports Centre did actually stay open until 9pm but was never used; I think was due to a combo of price, the construction work and opening during the winter months - surely any businessman with any modicum of common sense would have waited for the works to finish and the summer evenings to arrive before committing to the expense of keeping evening staff on. Wouldn't they?
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I thought that it looked very close to completion when I drove past this morning - mud in the flowerbed and kerbstones along the beach side of the prom.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the cafe put a big ad in the local press with the main theme being breakfast.
they do not open until 10 am, ok for a sunday but should be earlier for mid week.
Cullins Yard, not 200 yards from the Watersports Centre, seems to be ticking over OK?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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they would do, no competition.
