Silver Bonito Bar

Sold as a romantic champagne cruise around the Thames this is nothing more than a sightseeing tour. The romantic music from the brochure is replaced with the camp gab of some misled tour guide. Five minutes into the cruise and i head down to the champagne bar. Hardly a bar could it be called [...]

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Wine Bar - Arena

For some reason wine is segregated from the main bar tents in the arena and is sold at this canvas covered hatch instead. The so called wine bar is never very busy. Its seems there is far greater demand for beers than for a plastic cup of warm vino. The bar is [...]

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Travellodge Bar Cafe

Very quiet in the day with an almost bare bar and a few sad looking tables next to the reception so you can’t be too loud. So for a town famous for its stag does this is not really even the sort of venue you want to start off having a drink in [...]

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Beach Boy’s Club

Never in my life have I walked into such an obvious attempt to pull in the cream of the underage crowd and bare-faced provide some of the poorest entertainment in Spain. The beach boys club is clearly the work of a few north England alcoholics opening a bar to stage a farce of [...]

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Maggy and Wolfgang’s Pub

Maggy and Wolfgang’s is a bar set into the cobbled street of Marbella’s old town and is a little bigger than shed. Its selection behind the bar is a shadow of what can be purchased in any other bar in this world. From the looks of things there was one tap for traditional [...]

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The Chill Bar

Sitting by the pool on wide, comfortable wicker chairs, lazy under the shade yet in full view of the sun you would think that any bar with the name “chill” would have its finer qualities especially with such close proximity to the beach but this, mainly outdoor venue is plagued by holidaying businessmen [...]

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Poolside Bar

The luxurious Don Carlos Hotel in Marbella offers its residents a long bar beside the main pool. The bar stretches quite considerably to over half the length of the pool, running alongside it yet set back quite a stretch from the actual poolside to give a selection of tables which are covered by the [...]

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The Cafe Bar

Yes, even businessmen need a stiff drink when they have spent the whole day dragging their paws around an indoor exhibition centre the size of Earls Court 2. The Cafe Bar is a small canteen-style affair that sits quite well hidden beside one of the entrances and caters more for food than for [...]

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The Hogs Head

A standard chain pub resides upon the roadside in sunny Leeds, within the floors are wooden and make deep blooming stamps when anyone enters the pub. Flashy games machines rattle away in the corners of this brightly lit yet quite empty establishment. The bar sits to the right of the entrance, the prices relatively [...]

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The Burleydam

A family eatery, a spacious lounge for dining in which you are asked to place your order beside the front entrance in an orderly fashion and return to a fakely furnished table where the rest of your party sits gawking at the untamed children and families who wouldn’t know how to begin cooking a [...]

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