The Beachcomb Bar

The Beachcomb bar serves the indoor pool on the Ventura cruise liner and offers up a selection of drinks with a team of very slow and careless bar persons. The kids are also attracted to this pool which means continually being hit by waves of thrashing water as you wait to be served [...]

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Best Western Hotel Bar

Best Western is a hotel chain that is really starting let its standards slip in the UK and this addition to the chain is no exception. The reception is difficult to locate when entering this hotel but the bar is far closer to the front entrance. The bar consists of a [...]

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Troy Bar and Club

If you asked me to find this venue again I don’t think i would be unable to, although it is somewhere on Hanway Street near tottenham court road station. It’s possible that my desire to find this venue again has been diminished. Troy Bar and club is another one of these venues [...]

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O-Sheas Casino

O shea’s casino is a dark and dingy place indeed. Entering from the bright Nirvada sunshine outside only the glow and ringing of the slots machines is the invitation. The poker tables are populated with half dressed people, large men with string vests and women in their late fifties with everything hanging out. The [...]

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Old Swan Cocktail Bar

The old swan, one of the oldest hotels in Harrogate and filled with an exhaustive heritage proudly denotes the word “Cocktail Bar” on the outside of the building in white lettering. Inside the rotating doors and taking a left after reception, one arrives in a lounge, sofas and arm chairs arranged in [...]

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The Undercroft Bar

For such a wonderful station, glorified, almost modern Gothic, one would think that the bar situated int he departure lounge would be world class, perhaps with subtle similarities with the champagne bar upstairs? You would indeed be wrong. The undercroft bar, much like its dull choice of name is a modern, expensive, uncomfortable [...]

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HaHa Bar and Restaurant

I thought that most HaHa bars had had their day, so I was surprised to see an addition to the chain in the premier entertainment centre of the O2 in Greenwich - South London. Entering off the curricular walkway; perimeter of the giant venue - the HaHa bar has a wide bar [...]

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Travel Lodge Drury Lane Bar

The Travel Lodge on Drury Lane is not the easiest Hotel to find yet it towers in its secluded corner of Covent Garden as an Eyesore among other similar blocks of flats. The entrance is a pair of unsightly double doors on a concrete plateau of what must be public gardens. [...]

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The Boadicea Pub

A tiny pub tucked into the corner of Charing Cross station. The Boadicea is quiet with no music playing yet full of men in casual attire at the end of a working day. All have beards or stubble and all look so perfectly at ease in this little pub that they must all [...]

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Arnos Arms Harvester

A truly horrifying addition to a family chain of bars and restaurants. Heading to the harvester from Arnos grove station i pass dealers, meth-heads and children with children and secretly hope they are all barred from the venue.inside the scene is fairly busy in the restaurant to the left but the bar where we [...]

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