What was the dodgiest pub you have been to?

arybvtcw0eolkf

smeal wrote: »

About 4 years ago around 20 of us went to Manchester for the weekend for a friends birthday. We stayed in the Brittania Sachas Hotel in the City Centre. Please for the love of God google this place on Trip Advisor for the giggles!!

Every type of human secretion stain could be found on the carpet... we actually found sex toys and gay porn dvds at the top of one of the wardrobes behind the spare blanket. Strange middle aged fat Asian men wandered the corridors in their bare feet and topless.

I stayed there once.

At check in I told there was free satellite TV in all the rooms. Being a good Catholic I asked for the porn channel was disabled. I got the filthiest look from the receptionist, and was told it was straight, gay and trans only but they could do disabled for an extra £10 a night.

I checked out.

fred funk }{

Merrick Scruffy Resort wrote: »

I stayed there once.

At check in I told there was free satellite TV in all the rooms. Being a good Catholic I asked for the porn channel was disabled. I got the filthiest look from the receptionist, and was told it was straight, gay and trans only but they could do disabled for an extra £10 a night.

I checked out.

1997 called and want their joke back.

L1011

Hurrache wrote: »

It's closed quite a while now.

It reopened quite a while ago.

PlaneSpeeking

smeal wrote: »

About 4 years ago around 20 of us went to Manchester for the weekend for a friends birthday. We stayed in the Brittania Sachas Hotel in the City Centre. Please for the love of God google this place on Trip Advisor for the giggles!!

Every type of human secretion stain could be found on the carpet... we actually found sex toys and gay porn dvds at the top of one of the wardrobes behind the spare blanket. Strange middle aged fat Asian men wandered the corridors in their bare feet and topless.

Anyways we were young, foolish and just out for a cheap messy weekend. The bar underneath it however was the deadliest hell cave I’ve come across yet. When we first entered it was only opening for the day and the lads found a trail of vomit the whole way across the men’s bathroom that stayed there for the majority of the weekend... several men tried to sell us heroin and pills around the lunch hour... there was also a strange large windowless room attached to it that held pakistani wedding parties that seemed to start at 11am.

Despite this we managed to stay in the bar for the majority of the weekend as they did happy hour from 11am until 8pm.

I've stayed in there - well dodgy!!!! I was asked if I wanted to use the "health club and spa" and a woman checking out stared at me and shook her head!!

Think I had a lucky escape there.

Hurrache

L1011 wrote: »

It reopened quite a while ago.

I haven't been by it in a long time, occasionally cut through Corduff coming from the college direction to get to the National Sports Campus and that was the only time I'd see it.

arybvtcw0eolkf

fred funk }{ wrote: »

1997 called and want their joke back.

Welcome to 2018. And no, 1997 isn't getting it back.

If people want to see what a rough pub is try Martin's in Priorswood (Dublin 17). I often use a Chinese right beside it. Its a bit of traveling for me but the food is worth it.

Anyway, waiting on a curry and you could be forgiven into thinking you're on the set of The Wire or Love/Hate.

I've ventured into the pub a few times to get a take out and by jaysus they're savages in the kip.

L1011

They have actually filmed a scene or two from Love/Hate outside it. My van is in the background of one as I was doing a service visit to the dentists!

corner of hells

L1011 wrote: »

They have actually filmed a scene or two from Love/Hate outside it. My van is in the background of one as I was doing a service visit to the dentists!

I call bull**** , ain't no dentist in Priorswood.
No need for one.

L1011

corner of hells wrote: »

I call bull**** , ain't no dentist in Priorswood.
No need for one.

https://www.smiles.ie/clinic/smiles-dental-clonshaugh/

arybvtcw0eolkf

corner of hells wrote: »

I call bull**** , ain't no dentist in Priorswood.
No need for one.

Bwahahahaha

You're right, there's hardly a tooth in their heads down there.

Between the Chinese, the bookies and Martin's - savages.

Mongfinder General

Merrick Scruffy Resort wrote: »

Bwahahahaha

You're right, there's hardly a tooth in their heads down there.

Between the Chinese, the bookies and Martin's - savages.

Just how vicious are the locals?

VinLieger

yabadabado wrote: »

Not the worst of pubs,full of old alco's but wouldn't class it as rough.

Threads about dodgy pubs, doesnt have to be rough to be dodgy, the snug is dodgy as ****

yabadabado

VinLieger wrote: »

Threads about dodgy pubs, doesnt have to be rough to be dodgy, the snug is dodgy as ****

What would you class as dodgy?
A few auld alco's staring into their drink isn't my idea of dodgy.
What makes The Snug dodgy as **** ?

harry Bailey esq

yabadabado wrote: »

What would you class as dodgy?
A few auld alco's staring into their drink isn't my idea of dodgy.
What makes The Snug dodgy as **** ?

Place that used to be Cafe Royale? Yep, just local alcos staring into the pints. I was only in there a couple of times during the day but it didn't have a vibe thats any way dodgy. All pints were €3.

Joe Don Dante

Paddys Bar Galway City, an absolute cess pit

Dyr

DickSwiveller Returns wrote: »

I remember back in 09/10 my Dad and I were heading in to Croke Park for a match (Can't remember who was playing) but we had some time to kill and Kerry were playing Cork in the Munster final so we decided to go to a pub to watch it. Somehow we ended up in Ballymun. Now my Dad (now retired) was a teacher in the all irish school in Ballymun for years and knew all about The Towers and its reputation. But we decided to go in anyway. I have to say I was pretty shocked when we walked in. The place was very roomy, very clean and there seemed to be a good atmosphere. Definitely not what I had pictured. The strange thing was, though, that they had about 6 televisions but not one showing the GAA. All sorts of things like horse racing and (believe it or not) the women's world cup, but no GAA. My dad said it was a sign that the place was a dump and we left.

Ah I know your da if he's a Kerryman, he was drinking in the Penthouse back in its heyday so I doubt the Towers in 09/10 was any shock to him

MrCostington

Not sure if already mentioned, even by me lol. Forget name of place, the pub in the car park of Northside Shopping Center.

Went in with a mate (not sure why) and although nothing actually happened, we did not finish our pints and left. Vibe that anything could kick off any second. Place is closed years now.

mick121

MrCostington wrote:

Not sure if already mentioned, even by me lol. Forget name of place, the pub in the car park of Northside Shopping Center.

Pretty sure its the black sheep aka the blacker to locals. Never been in it and the main reasons being its a detached building with no windows which I find strange and second as a teenager I remember passing it on the 17a around lunchtime and seeing bouncers on the door.Bouncers at lunchtime, during the week,late 1980s,not normal stuff back then.

SeaFields

On a stag party in Vilamora, Portugal. As stag parties sometimes do, someone suggested a gentleman's club. One of the lads asked a bar man who called some guy who walked us five minutes up the road to what we thought was a lapdancing club. Anyways the rather large gentlemen sitting around the bar in black leather jackets and no music, dancing or otherwise gave it away as a step beyond just a lapdancing club. One could have been forgiven for expecting Liam Neeson to burst in the door at any second. We had about 1/4 of our drink and left in a hurry.

Fairly horrific really that it is tolerated given it was in full view and the authorities must be well aware.

Jaden

MrCostington wrote: »

Not sure if already mentioned, even by me lol. Forget name of place, the pub in the car park of Northside Shopping Center.

Went in with a mate (not sure why) and although nothing actually happened, we did not finish our pints and left. Vibe that anything could kick off any second. Place is closed years now.

The Black Sheep. In a little tower, upstairs, bars on the windows.

A place you wouldn't believe existed until you made the mistake of going there.

Feisar

The Slaughter House in Mullingar

yabadabado

Joe Don Dante wrote: »

Paddys Bar Galway City, an absolute cess pit

I have drank in it several times, thought it was fine although it could do with a lick of paint.

incentsitive

Feisar wrote: »

The Slaughter House in Mullingar

But surely that's laughter with S in front?

Deebles McBeebles

I remember being at a party in a small midlands town. Can't remember the name of the pub but the 20 or so scumbags at the jukebox played "I'm Blue daba dee daba daa" over and over while absolutely chewing the jaws off themselves. Never bothered going back there again strangely enough.

incentsitive

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

I remember being at a party in a small midlands town. Can't remember the name of the pub but the 20 or so scumbags at the jukebox played "I'm Blue daba dee daba daa" over and over while absolutely chewing the jaws off themselves. Never bothered going back there again strangely enough.

God I loved that song back in the day, you should have been in the middle of them!

MrCostington

mick121 wrote: »

Pretty sure its the black sheep aka the blacker to locals.

Yes. thanks!

Bigbagofcans

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

I remember being at a party in a small midlands town. Can't remember the name of the pub but the 20 or so scumbags at the jukebox played "I'm Blue daba dee daba daa" over and over while absolutely chewing the jaws off themselves. Never bothered going back there again strangely enough.

Not most people's song of choice to gurn to, but still, better than Maniac.

Deebles McBeebles

incentsitive wrote: »

God I loved that song back in the day, you should have been in the middle of them!

Hahaha no thank you. Only way I was in the middle of that crowd was if they were kicking the sh*t outta me. Anyway I couldn't handle the sound of teeth grinding and "chooon" every, single, time.

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

Not most people's song of choice to gurn to, but still, better than Maniac.

That is true tbf.

gitane007

The Penthouse behind the old shopping center in Ballymun was a bit of a gauntlet back in the day, another "no windows" shop.

o1s1n

A Nigerian bar in a rundown seaside resort called Margate, on the coast of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

We were staying in a hotel across the road and were dying for a box of smokes at about 11pm. So decided to drop into the local bar to pick some up.

Every second person in the place was off their face on tik. One dude (who was wired to the moon) heard my Irish accent, told me he could speak fluent Irish and kept making mad sounds at me, convinced we were communicating.

Ended up buying the bar a round, quickly drank our drinks down, bought our smokes and high tailed it out the door with three people getting up to immediately follow us out.

Luckily it was just a case of dashing across the road and getting in behind our metal locked gate. In retrospect, trying to win everyone over by buying them a drink probably wasn't the best idea :pac: