[Sussex] The Stable Yard - New Member's Club in Worthing

The Clamp said:

I just don’t know how they hope to attract the right clientele with these arcane rules on attire. Barbarians.

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Bozza said:

Amusingly, I've just found that you are not allowed to wear denim. In the gym. Obviously...

"Suitable gym clothing and clean trainers must be worn at all times. Denim is not permitted."​

Terms & Conditions | TheStableYardClub

www.thestableyardworthing.com

Again, those Ts&Cs look like an 8-year-old wrote them.

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The Clamp said:

Will they have a strict no-denim policy?

It’s something of a deal breaker for me.

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Bozza said:

This place may or may not be any good, but their marketing and presentation is simply the worst I have ever seen. It genuinely looks like it's been written by an 8-year-old.

Example, this is the opening sentence in their launch email I just found in my Inbox:

"We are very sorry for the delay in posting this and the full website launching unfortunately our lead project controller suffered a family bereavement last week resulting in some planned works not being able to be completed in time for our 15th deadline for release, we hope you will bear with us and our team during this moment, we had planned on photoshoot images being ready and our 3D rendering of the full venue, both these items will be completed in the coming days and be released as fast as we can in the meantime we are releasing the membership information and 50% off discount code for locals only to book membership, we look forward to releasing before xmas some actual venue shots plus images of all spaces and our 3D images of the planned finished club."​

Regardless of the atrocious message itself, the language and (lack of) punctuation is quite incredible.

I then click through to their website and there's a typo in the opening sentence...

"Transforming the historic former Beales site in the Montage Quarter, Worthing, an innovative member’s lifestyle club is set to open this coming winter."​

...as it is, I believe, the Montague Quarter.

Beyond that the whole website is error-strewn.

It's just a really shoddy approach that seems to be at odds with the image they are trying to portray.

Anyone joined?!?

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Mellotron said:

STILL not open by the way, and the locals are getting restless from the looks of their Facebook page comments.

Some people had started paying monthly Direct Debits a long, long time ago.

An example of the communication, near entirely unreadable;

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jackalbion said:

Having been in a similar one in Brighton, it’s gonna be a full of wankers, and will automatically go on my pub boycott list as it won’t allow football shirts.

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Giraffe said:

Members preview night towards the end of September apparently but still not open. Must be costing them a fortune. Hard to see this doing well but who knows.

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The Clamp said:

I imagine this will be going for two types of people;

The “grown up lad” in his late 30’s / 40’s who thinks playing golf and drinking Courvoisier makes them the height of sophistication. They’ll be in membership arrears within 4 months of joining.

The small business owner who probably owns a couple of greasy spoon cafes and a second hand car dealership. Annoying tits with spare money and zero taste.

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Knocky's Nose said:

I have to agree with this, sadly.

I do like the idea/notion of a private members club, where you can mix with decent and intelligent people in a nice, smart environment and know that you're not going to have to mix with twunts.

However, it always seems that private members clubs almost always attract twunts.

Never the twain shall meet, it seems.

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jackalbion said:

Is Worthing, dare I say it? Becoming Gentrified!

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