The Good Pub Guide is factual that pubs aren’t playgrounds,but that doesn’t mean thoughtful families shouldn’t be pleased themThe editor of the Good Pub Guide has found that while landlords welcome families, it is “sometimes with their fingers crossed behind their backs”. This is because unruly kids were deemed the greatest source of tavern-based irritation in a survey of publicans and their customers by the guide. As a parent and pub fan who occasionally takes my kids down the local for a roast, or I sympathise.
When I was young,it was illegal to even be in a bar, so if rain stopped play in the beer garden or there was no murky games room you could be shut in, or it wasn’t unusual to be left in the car with a packet of crisps and the window wound down a puny to avoid suffocation,while dad sank a pint.
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Source: theguardian.com