The Thomas Ingoldsby - J D Wetherspoon in Canterbury

This is a decent and usually quite a busy Wetherspoons pub in the heart of Canterbury, making it a great place to stop off when exploring the city or shopping. It's pretty big with two levels, varied seating areas and even some tables along the pavement outside the pub but sadly no beer garden. You can even stay here as it's also a hotel. The food and drink is cheap and tasty as in most Wetherspoons pubs and brought out nice and quick. I would definitely recommend it if you want a bargain drink or meal when you are out in Canterbury.

After a long and tiring day in Canterbury, we checked into The Thomas Ingoldsby JD Wetherspoon Hotel, hoping for a good experience as it was our first time booking with JD Wetherspoon. Thankfully, the room exceeded our expectations. It was spacious, cozy, and had all the necessary facilities, especially in the bathroom, which was well-equipped and clean. Although there was no room service, everything else made up for it. Our stay was comfortable and relaxing. We truly enjoyed it and would highly recommend this hotel to anyone visiting Canterbury. A solid 100% recommendation from us!

Only went for the pub not the rooms! The service was excellent and fast.

Great location for the town. Massive room and great layout for the disabled guests. Great to have a pub restaurant downstairs if you didn't want to venture out. Was very quiet Only downside was the parking which had to be off site. Otherwise spot on!

Fabulous rooms though it was very hot because the heated towel rail was on

Lovely atmosphere here, staff is always lovely and proffesional. The new gentleman serving upstairs this evening (short brown hair with glasses) is a great new addition here, friendly service and a great smile. It's always nice to go somewhere with lovely staff. Thank you!!

Ordered 5 glasses of milk and the server there refused service? No refund was gave and my milk was discarded.

I do like a Wetherspoon's. Plenty of table space, good company and drinks.

Not great ordered a margarita pizza 🍕 it was so bland, tasteless and boring 💤💤 the chips one of the worst I've had in a Wetherspoons the bill just under £12 disappointing and wished I hadn't bothered 🙄

The scene: Friday lunchtime. The dining party: myself, my husband and our 4 month old baby boy. Thank you to the wonderful staff for stepping in when some Karen started shouting at me for 'taking too long' in the disabled toilet (also a baby changing facility). Staff overheard the over-eager Karen trying repeatedly to break the door down whilst I was changing my baby, and intervened when she started to voice her volatile frustration upon my exit from the facilities. Super nice member of staff even approached us afterwards to apologise for the incident and to reassure us that the manager was keeping an eye on Karen in case she kicks off again. Awful experience made sweet by such an amazing response by the T. Ingoldby team! 🙏♥️

First visit for one beer and a coffee for my wife? Lift to toilet on first floor. Spacious bar on first floor much less crowded. Did not know it was there. Better signage needed!

Very nice Weatgerspoons pub. Food and drink very reasonable.

If you go during the day on a weekday, You will see many adults holding a glass of beer. It's great to have a beer The price is very cheap and delicious I also have one at Westgate, both are great.

Never had a bad experience at this place till now, but tonight wasn't allowed back in with the bouncer refusing to look at my ID. I know it's their discretion, but I feel that this treatment wasn't correct, considering he let people who were stumbing in.

Cut me off at half 10 didn’t even give a reason left me outside in the cold for over an hour even tho I had valid ID wasn’t that drunk and being respectful I consider the staff to be very rude for this as a vulnerable 19 year old girl alone in Canterbury very very dangerous for me personally and they don’t seem to care at all. The staff in their very judgemental been here many times over the years and won’t be coming back if I was killed tonight doubt they would even care so much for this Angela stuff just a way to cover their backs absolute ignorant people I wasn’t even close to being over drunk many people were way worse off been in there longer than me but oh well just won’t be coming back I would also like to add I was with my trans female friend who has a severe speech impediment (you put it together) and that is the only reason I can think why they thought we were too drunk which is straight up discrimination I want to note also I wrote this just after being kicked out you tell me if I’m “too drunk” should be careful coz if they carry on like this they will be expecting a lawsuit stop being sexist and discriminative do better !!! I’m very scared for all women who go to this bar please be careful and don’t trust the staff

Went with a large group of friends friends. Spent three hours here, all ordered food and drinks then bar staff deemed one of the party was too drunk to serve despite him being well mannered. Suddenly all three tables ordered to leave...designated drivers included. Staff were extremely rude, a couple with their dog outside also refused service even though they were on the pavement which isn't owned by Weatherspoons. I should mention there was a lady collapsed on the floor in the pub for the entire time we were there, we attempted to help but were informed it wasn't required....they eventually called her an ambulance which arrived as we were evicted. Disgusting staff!

Just told can’t sit outside on the road with a miniature poodle apparently they are dangerous, what about the smell of cigarets, weed and the swearing from the patrons apparently that’s acceptable I am disgusted

Ended up staying a good few hours after popping in for a drink. Cheap ciders and cocktails. Had a BBQ double cheese burger which was lovely! Got a bit loud but I guess it’s what you expect now. As usual the pub was done up nice but it’s the cheapness to have four or five drinks each for u day £20!

It's a spoons. Good food and drink. Can get very busy and hard to find seats.

I love exploring all the books they have and there is a small cafe inside too! Perfect place for a book and sip of tea. Their crochet book selection is great!

Weatherspoons Just off the high Street, nice and big, plenty of seating, great deals on food and drinks.

Well, what can you expect from a wetherspokns pub? Cheap beer bought clientele and staff not engaging with their customers. This witherspoon marked highly on all fronts. Food is so processed, and beer.on.its sell by date.

Went today as a stop on a Canterbury quest we were doing. We sat outside with a tiny dog, was quiet, no harm to anyone. Staff came out several times (despite a party of 6 spending money) telling us we can't have a dog as 'it's policy', i understand if noisy or threatening. Other customers expressed their disdain at the rule as was harmless and no concern whatsoever! We moved on quickly but spoilt our day!, wouldn't go back!

It's always good one of the best wethersppons

I was soooo impressed by staying here! The room was very big, clean, and incredibly quiet for being over a pub! We also had a gorgeous view of the Cathedral. Highly recommend and wouldn’t hesitate coming back.

Typical wetherspoons, plenty of room, upstairs is more lively than downstairs. Great location, great prices

Just spent over £30 on two gormay steak meals, shame I can't post a picture of the amount of grisle and fat we had to cut from them. This is the third time I've visited this venue and been serviced an unedable meal, I should have known better. I use the Dover Eight Bells regularly and can't understand why there's such a vast difference in the quality of food being served. Canterbury, find out why Dover are way above your standards. I've finished visiting the Canterbury venue after this experience.

As far as spoons go, this is one of the best i have been to.

Always a pleasure to eat and drink here, with lovely staff and settings

The location was perfect for the town and one of the cheaper hotels. The downside was no on-site or street parking. There is a car park behind the pub but it's expensive at £30 per day. We parked a 5 minute walk away (in Holman's Meadow) for half the price. If you're only staying the night both car parks charge £2 overnight (9pm to 7.30am). The staff were lovely, friendly, and helpful. The rooms were clean, comfortable and of a good size. The room we were in had an opening skylight as opposed to a window and although it made a humming noise when part opened, it did not stop us sleeping. The food was ok, tasty and cheap. Breakfast could have been warmer. Lunch was better, and best of all - the warm cookie dough sandwich; the only thing I remembered to take a photo of! Well, that, my sparkly shoes and the Hugo spritz cocktail ;)

Great weekend stay in the heart of Canterbury. Large clean room, serviced daily. Lovely shower. Great staff. A popular location for students, but no noise in room. Thoroughly recommend it.

An excellent young waitress. I think her name is Shirls. Very helpful and efficient. High quality at great value

I only went foe food in the pub and didn't stay here. Great Central location, other than that a standard spoons

Stayed the weekend just gone me and my wife who are blind and physically sighted all staff from bar staff to hotel staff really and truly went above and beyond helping us in all aspects of our stay. Including carrying drinks up to the room for us when it got busy. Definitely come back again. Only down side of the room is that for people with bad back bed are hard so you will have to bring something with or ask the staff for help like we did. And on that note a big big thank you to a the saff at the weatherspoons

A typical English restaurant with a period setting. Large and spacious. The food is very good.

No brunch/all day breakfast available, as they had "No Eggs". Strange that despite being situated in the centre of town, with no end of establishments that would be able to supply eggs, the problem appears to have been to difficult to solve.

A good place to meet up with friends.

Probably one of the best weatherspoons

Another spoons Busy with students Not very clean

A pretty decent Wetherspoons as Wetherspoons go, a good location and easy to get to!

Popped in for a cheeky beer whilst in town. Wantsum raspberry porter was very nice.

Always a good pint and cheap decent food. Good value and a decent location in the city.

Lovely hotel, very busy in eve with a student vibe 😀👍

Very good service and very helpful

Always decent food and fast service

Large wetherspoons with an upstairs as well as downstairs so lots of seating. Had a great burger meal with brie cheese on top.

Rude woke little brat serving,disgusting service.

Lovely inside, lots of room for everyone, big toilets, accessible for weelchair users thanks to the lift

The worst gaff, the worst people, the worst loaded fries

Fast service on the food and reasonable prices

Nice restaurant prices are very economical and easy to order, food was alright give the fact that it was quite cheaper. Plenty of tables.

great wings, decent experience, no sports though, budget used on 6 fruit machines. i saw an area for tea and reading which is a nice addition but other then that its pretty standard.

Zack was amazing I lost my phone which had memories from my Ill father and found it and returned it to me forever grateful!

This good sized Weatherspoons pub is located just inside the Canterbury city wall and comprises two floors and a hotel. The pub is open all day serving breakfast and then dinner until late. The main public bar is on the ground floor, with a second satellite bar upstairs. This pub serves reasonable food including pizzas and burgers. It can become very busy late afternoon, however seating for small groups can normally be found at the very back (raised section) or upstairs.

Really nice character pub in Canterbury. Great atmosphere and staff.

I am a regular Wetherspoons visitor and have defended them many times over the years. Unfortunately the whole experience being a customer of this outlet has become very different. The food is now living up to the previously unjustified criticism. The burgers seem to have shrunk in recent times and the chicken is, in my view inedible. The last time I ordered chicken it had absolutely zero texture and turned to mush in my mouth, which I found revolting. I have not ordered food from them since. It just amazes me how many people seem to find it acceptable, because the venue is very well supported. The other problem is with the WiFi, which in conjunction with the app is a very important aspect of their business. For the last few weeks, it has been mostly impossible to use the app and at such a busy time of the year, I am quite honestly amazed at the reaction from staff when informing them about this. They have no interest whatsoever. Many local people that I know have had the same sort of experiences and eventually they will reap the rewards of very poor management.

Cheap room, but really nice & clean.

It is nice, but it does get very busy. We visited at midday on a Sunday and you had to wait for a table if you wanted food. Food is the usual Spoons menu. My Ultimate burger meal did look like it had been slapped on the plate, but I'm not paying top dollar so what do you expect. Will always revisit as it's cheap and cheerful.

Good food, drinks and friendly staff.

Value for money but could do with a refurb

Nice place to grab couple of drinks with a friend

Spent a little time here as we were stopping locally. Nice pub on two levels serving typical Spoons food and good value drinks. Good location in the city centre and very easy access too. When we visited it was full of French people so they must have got the message in Europe too. Nice one and thank you.

My order was efficiently taken by a member of bar staff and on arrival my meal, a small breakfast, had been nicely cooked and prepared and tasted fine. A busy pub at one end of the main street which is clearly popular.

Very busy. Very noisy. Run out of a few food items and cocktails. Service was quick,l and friendly. Waitress collecting glasses and plates, were happy, jolly and joined in with a bit of banter. Makes all the difference.

A spontaneous pleasant stay. Fantastically located. Incredibly priced. The room was spacious, the bed was wide, the bathroom clean and they offered more than we expected. Safe and secure, convenient and comfortable.

Great value with a happy feeling pub.

30 guys went there for a lunchtime Christmas drink, 5 hours later we walked out. pPenty of space upstairs with a warm spoons welcome from the staff.

Bouncers are horrible, wasn’t let back in for being too drunk. I am drunk right now and typing this. They said I was stumbling about but had three drinks. I don’t know what power trip these guys think they have but spoons need to think about the security staff they hire. I’m 19 years old and just wanted a few drinks with my friends.

Nice and simple hotel in a prime location. Pub is busy but the staff are still accommodating, and they drew me this excellent T Rex picture. Very impressive!

Food was lovely here,service with a smile ,drinks not at rip of prices ,would recommend this to anyone

I worked for ten years in these pubs, done the morning shift solo and I couldn't have made a worse breakfast if I tried. There were 2 people in the downstairs bar and I got given a plate of beans with a sausage and an egg the first go around (ordered a large breakfast). After sending it back, I got a large breakfast, minus the tomato. Hash browns were obviously not freshly cooked, bacon microwaved and only cooked on the grill on one side, the mushroom had been microwaved too. Absolutely terrible breakfast, especially so considering that it was first thing in the morning. Whoever was in the kitchen on morning shift of 28/11/24 should be retrained. If you want a spoons breakfast, go to the St. Dunstans one, Ingoldsby has staff that obviously don't care.

Been a few times for breakfast before hitting the shops. Typical weatherspoons breakfast; great value & quick service. A big hit is the unlimited refills for coffee. Seems a nice pub, always busy with 2 floors, big bars & plenty of seating.

Very busy Wetherspoons with a hotel in Canterbury. Staff were very friendly. We stayed here for two nights and the room was huge and very quiet. Everything was very clean. Our window looked out onto the cathedral. O nly issue we had was the smoke alarm going off at midnight and we had leave the premises for a while. We were compensated with a free breakfast. We would stay again though.

Typical Weatherspoons establishment situated in Canterbury, cannot go wrong for value and atmosphere.

As usual excellent value for money wonderful choice of good basic food Tables could be cleaned better as when wiped were still wet Toilets upstairs not easy for elderly/disabled there is a lift but what if it was out of order

As far as a Spoons goes it was nice. Breakfast was great as always and staff served as fast as they could.

well we have visited this Weatherspoon on a regular basis when we go to Canterbury today it was busy we looked for a table as luck would have it a couple got up and said we could have theirs WELL !!! the under manager came to clear the table my husband went to sit down he was moaning and muttering about him under his breath. I said just ignore him then he preceded to go to the kitchen and moan about us the object of this comment is why oh why do you have such a rude man working for you we have seen him on numerous occasions talking to the staff terribly they all work hard there is no need to employ such a obnoxious person Thank you to the two nice girls that served me at the bar you more than made up for him BUT what must the tourists think about a person like this serving them I say if you don't like the job leave its as simple as that AND have Respect for your staff and customers

Nice food. Nice place and atmosphere. Friendly staff to. And nice drinks

Disappointing food. Wetherspoons use to be a great place to eat but they must be going down hill or struggling financially. I wanted to order sausage and mash but they’ve reduced their menu. No problem, I get a chilly non-carne on jacket potato. I paid for cheese. When it came the portion size was that for a child. Hardly any chilly and about a tablespoon of cheese on top. I’m quite a skinny person and notorious for not being a big eater so for me to say that was too small is saying something. The staff were all friendly though. A bit rushed off there feet. It looks like the place needs to hire more people to help out. All round it just feels like the business is cutting corners and it shows!

Very busy on this particular day with a large coach party arriving which naturally caused lengthy delays receiving our food order. Kudos to Zack on duty who was very apologetic and offered a refund of our meal. As it was a special date with a friend, celebrating her 90th birthday (this wasn't mentioned at the time) the courteous manner and genuine apologies from this member of staff was greatly appreciated. Thank you again, Zack.

Went in there for a breakfast this morning coffee machine filthy table I sat at was sticky and had what looked like brown sauce all over it that got on my coat.. toilets are absolutely disgusting walked straight back out without using.. finally breakfast arrived and was stone cold every bit of it. Took it back to the bar and was greeted by a grey haired guy who was really rude and not in the slightest friendly and didn't like that I wanted a refund still has to pay for the coffee though which I didn't drink due to the dirty machine..AVOID THIS HORRIBLE PUB!

Large pub over 2 floors, somewhat secluded. Belongs to the Wetherspoon chain and therefore has cheaper drink prices than the "normal" pubs. The pint here costs around £2.80, but then for Spanish, American or Belgian beer.

Good food and drink at reasonable prices 👌

Called in for my tea had the fish and chips and the fish was lovely

Great pub and food quality. Wifi bit weak and data.

We had a lovely stay in the hotel, the room was large and pleasant (although a little noisy at times, we don't know where that came from). The view of the cathedral was a nice little extra. The food is very good value and the pint cocktails are very nice.

It was a Saturday night so understandably was very noisy but the tables were clean, service fairly slick considering and the food to the usual standard.

An exceptional pub, with an amazing atmosphere! Whenever I'm in Canterbury, I will always visit here for lunch... The food is great, as are the staff. The type of pub you could take anybody too. Highly recommend!

It's a spoons, not much to say, nice, but the tables are all very close together which makes it very hard for wheelchair users. It has ramps and a lift but it is not very wheelchair friendly when it is packed.

Great place and food, pleasant environment. Worth a visit

Great for drink and good service

Beer poorly served. Floor sticky

Good pub with hotel. A bit noisy until the pub closes, but really okay

Can't argue with the value for money. Prosecco for under fifteen pounds in a bar, and tastes good. Plate full of breakfast food arrives in about eight minutes, all of it acceptable. Well done on efficiency front guys. 👏

Popped in after a very long time, yesterday. We bought drinks and sat down to look at the menu......... a member of staff wearing a red and black checked shirt, beard and his hair in a ponytail was standing by the food preparation area, took the band out of his hair and shook his head then reapplied the band. He then went behind the bar and served a customer with drinks, then returned to the plating area without washing his hands. We decided not to eat. There is no point in speaking to "management" as the last time we went (several years ago) I was sitting eating when a customer threw his sweaty T shirt across the seating area and it landed around my head, I spoke to "management" who said she would look at the CCTV, she came back and said it wasn't on there. That was that.

A great Wetherspoons with very friendly and understanding staff. I use a wheelchair and have an Assistance dog and they were absolutely wonderful and whenever they see my girl they bring me a water bowl without me even needing to ask.

i went here for breakfast and i had the only good meal not fried or in a fast food in my 2 weeks journey in england. is very typical and the prices are honests. the staff is good and the food is very good!

This is my local best weatherspoons in Canterbury best staff best breakfast

Had a lovely evening good food would recommend anybody going specially at weekend door staff are polite and seem genuine with doing there job correct lovely young man named vinnie has good manors and very helpful

Great beer! Decent prices. Typical pub atmosphere.