Royal Lymington Yacht Club in New Forest

I'm not a member but I booked in with Royal Lymington Yacht Club to do RYA Level 3 Dinghy sailing course after doing levels 1 & 2 on the river Thames. The club is very nice with great views and Richard, the instructor leading the course was great and gave the choice of additional things to learn.. I had a great time out on the water and sailing on the solent felt like a real achievment. Proud to be able to say I trained at Royal Lymington Yacht Club and am looking forward to doing RYA First Aid Course in December .

Despite the sign outside saying “visiting yachtsmen welcome “ the receptionist wanted proof of visiting AND proof I was a member of a Royal yacht club before telling me that they didn’t serve dinner on Monday’s.

One of the worst clubs in the area. Employees were just using their phones. Couldn't really care about the guests.

A very fantastic yacht club with very hard working staff and great facilities. Really enjoyed my lunch before sailing in the afternoon.

Great terrace. Best view in lym. Interior needs updating.

A private yacht club that welcomes visiting yachtspeople but not their canine crew. Function rooms for dining and drinking are available to be booked. Dogs are allowed on the balcony but not in the building. The food is OK, prices and quality similar to the average pub. A choice of Ringwood ales at the bar as well as keg ciders and beers, all at no more than pub prices. The club members and the staff were all friendly and welcoming. There is a lift for disabled access to the bar.

First time visitors - we were guests of our friends who are long time members - had a lovely lunch - excellent service - super views - having watched Howard's Way it prepared me well for today - hope to be invited back !

Visited the yacht club last night , both the food and service were exemplary. Dan , who ran the restaurant, was helpful and knowledgeable about the menu . Thank you for a lovely evening

Lovely ambiance, amazing views, young and eager staff and great food. Love it.

Great location, food and staff. Enjoyed a lovely lunch here, food was excellent with waterside views. Worth a visit and enjoying a beer.

Brilliant, service excellent lovely views of the Marina. Highly recommend.

Great club, great optimist fleet

Great food and excellent service.100% happy and cant wait to visit again.

A spectacular Sunday lunch...great service from the whole team.

Sunday lunch was average and plates too small

I went in my official position as Chairman of New Forest District Council to meet Princess Anne the whole thing was amazing the club is friendly and welcoming. They have great facilities and mooring. The food is first class I hope to go again. Allan

Another great spot by the water

Lymington is a wonderful place to visit, great water park for kids..

Lovely place and very tasty food

Nice place to see the estuary and sea. Great ,helpful staff.

Great food, especially the soufflé!

Lovely views over the river from 'order at bar' restaurant.

Beautiful views of Lymington River

Walked through it to get somewhere else, but it looked very nice.

A good place to sit and watch life go by. We sat and watched the Isle of Wight ferry pass by. It seems a popular place for people with dogs, no idea where they went but there were several dog walkers even in the rain. There is public toilets in the car park and a slipway, it is a large car park with plenty of spaces.

Wonderful views, tasteful decor, shame the meal was a bit like 'school food' but a great place to meet friends.

Many thanks to Mike and the catering team and the bar staff who looked after us so well on our recent rally from Brading Haven Yacht Club. 14 of us had dinner on the Monday evening and then 12 of us on the Tuesday. The food was excellent, the steaks, the fish, the omelettes and a special mention for the liver and bacon which was cooked to perfection for each individual order. The home cooked chocolate brownie is also worth a mention. Thanks again, we will be back.

The club has offered a fantastic experience for my children dinghy sailing, as well as opening many opportunities for myself and my wife. It really is a family club with an excellent reputation. The initial cost was a little concerning but if you embrace the club and get out on the water it really is good value for money.

A good yacht club with its own bar

Visiting Lymington and our lovely friends took us to the Royal Lymington Yacht Club for lunch on a very busy sailing Saturday. Beautiful views, in a vibrant busy dinning room, but no problem finding a table and the service was excellent and food simple but appetising and beautifully cooked and presented. Crab bisque was superb.

Yacht clubs are not always good and not all understand the need to be welcoming. This one does. Everything to a high standard but above all the wish to serve people well. Excellent service. Good facilities. Their ability to organise an event is first class. All the details covered. Unexpected illness, carefully monitored and looked after.Just excellent.

I have been to the Royal Lymington YC many times for sailing events but this weekend was the first social event I had attended there.Our friends were married in Lymington and had their reception at the club and it was superb.Their catering was excellent, their staff were incredibly helpful, courteous and friendly and most importantly we all had a superb time.

Good atmosphere with marvellous views over Lymington river. Car parking next door. Good food, especially Sunday lunch or a quick mid week lunch with friends.

Oddly expensive for a members' club. On the night I went it was £12.50 for a steak pie and dessert. I did not want a dessert but that was the fixed price. The steak pie was awful - someone else said that the horse should have been shot 10 years earlier which summed it up.

A members' only club, bar and boat yard and centre for yachts and yachties.The bar and restaurant, which we have visited as guests, has zero atmosphere but a truly wonderful view, very ordinary food, just about adequate service, but reasonable (members) prices.The members pay high joining fees and subs to be a member and most that we have talked to grumble about it in farly loud voices. Each to our own but we have visited many yacht clubs around the world and this doesn't compare. Worth a visit with members if only for the spectacular view across the river and towards the Isle of Wight, but for a culinary treat, don't bother.

Spent time at the club during Youth Week. Fantastic organisation. Great facilities. Friendly people. Good food. Very welcoming. Will return again I'm sure.

Yacht clubs have become havens for real ale drinkers but not this one. Only real all is the very weak and rather tasteless ( they go together, of course) Ringwood Best Bitter. Otherwise there was, most curiously, a choice of 2 golden beers which are always tasteless. Apparently thye have abandoned the advantages of being independent and having a free choice of beers to stock by effecting an exclusive contract with Marstons. That excludes the very popular London Pride and Doombar which were previously stocked at this bar. It would allow Ringwood 49er and Pedigree but they have decided not to stock those. All in all a most odd decision. The adjacent pub, The Mayflower, doe shave a good choice of real ale..We visited on a Wednesday evening for supper. A bad sign at about 8 pm wa sthat there were only 2 people eating. The food choice was even more odd than not having any good real ale. The only starter offered was tomato soup - this was on a hot summer's evening. There was a choice of 3 mains - we all had chili con carne and rice. The chilli/ carne part was nice but the rice was served in what seemed to be a single lump.No traditional summer evening food such as salads.It seems that this club is reassessing its food and drink offerings and it seems to have a long way to go to attract the large support that it used to have.Waiting staff were very pleasant.The food and drink prices are about the same as a pub which is odd as members' clubs are usually significantly cheaper.Visiting yachtsman, arriving by sea, are allowed in subject only to signing a visitors' book. A great view, particularly from the roof terrace.

A great club - but unless you're an invited guest or a member, you will not have entry. It is an exclusive club for sailors only - great atmosphere and good food and fun

Best location on the Lymington River for a drink. Friendly yacht club happy to welcome guests (ask in the bar to get signed in). Well appointed traditional yachting club bar with super light meals and sandwiches for lunch served most days.

First time on a yacht so unsure what to expect. Excellent facilities. Rubbish parking. Clean and well kept.Not much more to add or take away from a club where boats and yachts are kept.

We felt as if we were intruding, even though the place was nearly empty. The bar man serving us was very rude. The food was mediocre. There are many other places where you can eat and be welcome!

After going off course in 2014 this has now rejoined the main stream and has a new chef and a new menu. The waiting staff have obviously now had some training and were very helpful and attentive. I had pork and apple pie which was lovely with fresh vegetables but what looked like fried potato slices ( which I left) and my guest had scampi which was nicely dry.There was not any light or "healthy"/low calorie options.The River Room gives a wonderful view of the river and the hourly massive car ferries.The bar has changed to Marstons as its only supplier so no longer has the ever popular London Pride or Doombar premium bitters. In fact it no longer has a premium bitter at all - only Ringwood Best bitter ( 3.8%). Curiously when I visited they had 2 different golden bitters - an eclectic choice at the best of times.

We were a party of five. We were greeted by a young man who sullenly approached us and asked " do you wanner eat"! He eventually reappeared about twenty minutes later and took our order somewhat reluctantly. Our friends who are members were very embarrassed and were minded to ask for another member of staff but on looking round it was apparent that all the staff were very young indeed and were all talking at length in the far corner, we stuck with the young gentleman rather than cause a fuss.In short the two steaks ordered were both incredibly small and of poor quality, the vegetables were over cooked and mushy. The ladies all had fish which was tasteless and again hugely over cooked! Deserts were bland and had very obviously been in the cabinet for some time! Dreadful service, poor quality food cooked very badly and our friends were exceedingly embarrassed. Awful experience.

Probably the best location to eat / drink in Lymington with unrivalled views over the alongside Lymington River.Good menu for lunch, tends to be a tad conservative on the evenings.

We were 'signed in' as guests and enjoyed a splendid lunch and drinks with friends. Attentive service, good food and an out of this world view over the water. Lots of interesting memorabilia and nautical art, including several outstanding black and white photographs. A shame they don't have a social or 'associate' membership class for non sailors as we we would join like a shot! And the Club was almost empty, and they weren't taking much money, so maybe something for them to consider?

Here's the deal.. this will do if you're tired and hungry from sailing. Not the best but certainly not the worst on offer around here, they took us saturday night without booking place was packed(noisy) but they managed. Staff excellent, nothing to complain about food - good for a drink and meal after a days sailing.

Our meal was akin to hospital food at it's very worst. We last visited about two years ago and the quality and service were completely different - no comparison to the tastless overcooked rubbish we were presented with. Will not return.

We moored in Lymington Yacht Haven and walked down beside the marina to the club.We pressed the entry button and were admitted and signed the register as visiting yachtsmen.We had not booked but were quickly given a table at 7 pm on a Friday night.We paid for our meals and drinks at the bar.The menu has 2 prices, one higher for "outsiders" and one for members.The food was well served and tasted good. We enjoyed a whole mackerel on a slate with piped mash and green beans and a chicken breast .There were several desserts on display.You serve yourself coffee from a machine for £1.20.There was plenty of room and a large outside terrace has just been laid giving excellent views down the river and towards IOW.We will definitely return.

I do not usually post negative reviews. Indeed I only review in the positive. We are sitting here disgusted at the quality of service food and quality. It takes a bit for me to get excited at poor quality but this wins hands down. Ok lamb tasteless, unusual and indistinguishable. Beef was ok. I do not do serviettes or cruets but do do expect napkins hot plates salt and pepper and a proper cutlery. Quality of food can be found at sub regional motorway café or service stations. Bring back happy road chefs. Pudding... known as sweet. A separate ticket needed procurement from the bar. It did include cheese. This is awful. Then the outbreak of war between ward room and lower decks. Appalling. Avoid at all costs. The £ huge membership costs are wasted. The place is full of people from chandlers Ford and Boscombe. What a slip in standards.

We were two in a party of visiting sailors. We were greeted with a load of reasons why existing arrangements could not be honoured, total inflexibility and not a smile in sight.The food was anything but acceptable and certainly no encouragement to return.We have been to Lymington twice since and shall not return.What a shame for such a super building and location.

i always think that value is a factor in any meal. as a member there is no Vat and some keen prices.from my point of view the lamb chops were great in a good sauce with some tasty vegetables. with a reasonably priced bottle of wine and a good view I would say that it was good

Great roast. Had pork and lamb - both excellent. Nice dry cauliflower cheese. Sadly they had run out of vanilla ice cream to accompany the treacle tart but had very good, light custard instead.Great view of the river from River Room part of the restaurant. The main restaurant has no view unless on balcony which has 4 tables and superb view down river and across the Solent.Roof top sitting area has wide view of western Solent and across to Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth.Restaurant is self-service and had a slow moving queue but it was Sunday lunchtime..Not quite sure how this is on Trip Advisor as it is a members only club.

We had sailed non-stop from Plymouth to Lymington (taking 21 hours) and were really looking forward to a lovely meal and a warm welcome. We received a very tepid welcome from the local sailing community and we were served a small, average meal that was extremely overpriced. Dissapointed is probably an understatement, and I am sure that my local club in Plymouth would be much more welcoming.

As i have said before, i don,t review unless i truely need to. Well unfortunately this is not a postive one. Visiting Lymington yacht club one evening, waited at bar for at least ten minutes, was asked by young member of staff if i was being served, i said no i wasn,t, she just continued wiping glasses. I was then ignored by another member of staff, who served a couple who had come in after me. Finally i got served, asking for two hot chocolates, which were the worst hot chocolate i have ever had. Being made in front of me, it appeared that the barman did all the right things, but to my dissapointment, it was not hot at all, not even luke warm, it wasn,t mixed properly, so had vile dry lumps of chocolate in my mug. Its not hard really is it.

We were looking forward to our visit and had high expectations of somewhere as prestigious as this. What a let down.The service was friendly, but a little slow. The seating was rather random and although we'd booked as a party giving correct numbers too, they had to add another table WHILST WE WERE DINING as there wasn't enough room for all of us on the table they had set aside!The food was expensive and very poor quality. The crab and prawn tian had no crab in it, and was more like a skimpy prawn cocktail. The salmon with asparagus sounded good, but there was no asparagus available, so we had to settle for overcooked beans instead! The roast potatoes were soggy and overcook, as was the cauliflower. Even the bread was very hard and dry, stale and impossible to spread the rock hard butter on!Shame somewhere like this can't manage to cook food to a decent standard. We wont be going back!