The King Lud - Isle of Wight

Busiest pub on the Esplanade because it's the cheapest. That said, the drinks were good and on the Saturday evening we visited we saw no bad behaviour and enjoyed our visit.

Had a great few hours at this pub on a rainy day in ryde very friendly pub and great prices will come back next time

Lovely busy seafront pub. Dog friendly. Very pleasant helpful staff with local knowledge of transport or restaurants. The management are amazing and go above and beyond for their customers very funny kind and empathic they have raised thousands for charity and helped out all who needed help during lockdown with shopping hospital apps and so on. I cannot praise them enough. The pub itself is clean and very cheap for drinks they have sports on the 5 tvs. Play quizzes bingo karaoke and meet raffles The locals call it family.

What a lovely pub, lovely atmosphere, great karaoke night on the Friday, interspersed with Northern Soul. Would heartily recommend.

Sadly the Ryde Esplanade is not blessed with smart drinking establishments and for some inexplicable reason the advanced party we sent over the road to find a beer whilst the rest of us sorted out hovercraft tickets chose this one, probably the least smart of the lot. A single room pub with some limited table seating on the pavement out front its a fairly basic and boisterous sports bar type of establishment. Serving bar on the left and large flatscreen telly’s dotted about for the sport, I got the impression that most of the clientele had been in all day for looking at the screens on this early Saturday evening. Two real ales on from major Brewers, both boring brown bitters including a poor Gales HSB, especially as I had to drink it out of a plastic glass as we had chosen to try and avoid some of the characters and drink on the pavement. A plan that sadly misfired as most of them were in and out like a Jack-in-the-Box to share their fag smoke with us. Let’s just say I couldn’t wait to get back on the hovercraft over to Southsea and its pubs.