If you're in Belfast city centre and you're a bit fed up tagging along and carrying bags for the…read moremissus while she shops, and you enjoy the occasional bet, this could be a nice place for you to pass the time (assuming that, for some reason, you can't pass the time in a nearby hostelry). This bookies is spacious and comfortable. It probably has the most screens of any bookies I've been in, ensuring you miss none of the horse-racing or greyhound racing. Screen after screen lists odds, results, special bets, and shows the racing. There's also a good bit of seating in here, with benches and chairs throughout the shop, and no shortage of newspapers for you to make your selections. This bookies is always busy, being positioned in a place where people going into, and leaving, the city centre can easily access it. There's many a punter in here just killing time until they get summonsed to go to meet the missus and carry the bags of shopping that've been accumulated.

Betting is something I have never found myself being particularly skilled at. My distinct lack of…read moreinterest in all things sport may be the reason for my downfall in this regard but on the very rare occasion - after one or two pints of the foaming ale I've opted for a punt. This particular branch of William Hill is more or less identical to the many across the UK and Ireland. I put a bet on a random horse race that was about 10 minutes away from starting when I came in. I tried my best to look as educated in the ways of the betting man but I think I just came across as beleaguered and confused. My whopping £2 bet left me with a £2 hole in my pocket - alas I didn't win a thing, but it was of course the brief, slightly tipsy experience that counted.

I sometimes like to lose money. When I feel like doing that, I do it in a way I know that's almost…read moreguaranteed to leave my pockets lighter than they were before. Betting on Tottenham. This place like many other bookies, has that stench of desperation and old smoke, despite the fact that people couldn't smoke there for years. It looks pretty much the exact same as every other branch of William Hill around the country, they uniformity policy being 2nd to none. The staff are hidden behind their bullet proof glass and think this safe guard gives them leave of their manners and they can be as rude as they like. Thank god I only bet once a blue moon.

William Hill is located on Skipper Street which is a weird place for a bookmakers. Plonked next to…read moreone of Belfast's best pubs, The Spaniard and opposite the opulent Merchant Hotel it feels out of place. But I suppose there must be market for it. I don't often have a flutter but when I do it's usually ridiculously outrageous to the point where if it came off I'd be Yelping from Barbados. But today I was passing this William Hill and I thought, you know what my ginger pasty skin could do with some red/pink in it so I went in to William Hill and placed a cheeky 50p! This William Hill seems to have it all, plasma screen TV's on the wall, betting slips for every football match and a seating area located opposite the TV's. Almost as plush as it's neighbour, The Merchant. Seems to have everything a bookmaker needs as well as a few extras. Worth popping in here if you want a flutter and are in the City Centre.