Yates (South Terminal - Gatwick Airport)

Yates

A whole corner of this departure lounge-come-mall, seems to have set aside for this wine bar. It has an open front looking out into the duty free shopping area and inside it boasts a large bar set back from the entrance among fake plastic pillars and romanesque design throughout. On the right of the bar is a is a good olfd fashioned view of the planes taxiing to and from the runway but the venue remains busy all day long with lone passengers complaining about the delays, familys with uncontrollable children and untidy tables with the reminents of breakfast at any time of the day. Although there is a good variety of drinks at the bar it is as expessive as one would assume an airport lounge to be. There is a also a nasty side serving of music played through 1 watt speakers and I am unable to distinguish if the genre is rock music or someone is changing over thr record in a disused back room.

There is unfortunately no toilets in the actual bar so if you have one beer too many you have to take your belongings to the other side of the departure lounge to relieve yourself only to come back and find your table occupied by team over over-ethusiastic tour-bus granny's who cant imagine why you are hovering over them in what they see as an obvious attempt to flirt with them. A dissappointing 3/10.