Name the best Boozer
 

Ladies and Gents,

In your inestimable experience as military travellers around the world, based on whatever criteria you like:

Name the greatest bars/pubs/iilicit gin joints/clubs that you have been to and tell us why. Hopefully future readers can search for their destination and get some good reccomendations....

Starter for 10 -

Where: Cactus Moon, Tucson, AZ, Wednesday nights.

Why: All the girls compete for votes to win cash by schmoozing the guys - and they have a hat shop in the club.:ok:

Yeah! Let's all post on an open forum where you can find lots of military guys relaxing and drinking. It should raise the various bars profits, with all the journos and terrorists hanging out there (although presumably al qaeda don't booze!)

DANGER Will Robinson DANGER

Camp Allegro, Curacao. A bit like Butlins but each "Chalet" contains a whore, got a good bar too. Gets my vote as number 1.

Flamingo Club, Mombasa. Ratio 20 to 1, make sure you bag up!

African Star, Dakar. A little rough but very cheap, "wink, wink!"

For a fight The Pegasus bar, Aldershot, just walk on in and shout at the top of your voice "all Para's are poofs!"

For something a little different "Heaven, London", and for the more discerning gentleman the Hole in the Wall, Gibraltar where you can get sucked dry (by a woman with a willy).

Gladyer Inn, Rosyth a real eye opener, for the love of god do not open your mouth!

For all those that attend courses at CAM, RAF Henlow, you really must head down to the 'Engineers Arms'.

20 different Real Ales every week! 10 on tap at any one time!

TBK

And if you don't drink ale, as the Hobgoblin Brewery proudly advertises 'What's the matter Lagerboy, afraid you might taste something?'

If you're allowed back it can't have been that good a night - no security risk:}

TBK

It's all about opinions, here's a few random ones plucked from a BBC debate on real ale;

"A warm pint of smelly brown bitter can never compete with the crisp clean refreshing taste of an ice-cold continental lager. No amount of advertising will persuade people without beards otherwise. "
Tom, England

"As a bearded middle-aged man, I'll thank Camra to keep its hands off my image. However, I'm all for as many people as possible being introduced to the variety and quality of British ales of all kinds. If that involves near-naked models on posters, I guess we'll just have to live with them. "
Simon Williams, UK

"Speaking as a veteran barman, I can state categorically that real ale cannot EVER be 'made sexy'. The reason being that while bitter drinkers tend to be old and/or ugly, real ale drinkers tend to be inconceivably ugly, smelly, officious and boring to boot. "
Graham Hughes, Liverpool, UK

"Pure and simply ale tastes really bad and lager tastes really good, oh and my dad drinks ale and I don't want to look like him! "
Greig, UK

"Sorry, but real ale will never become sexy as long as it is warm, flat, has bits floating in it and goes by names like 'Old mans underpants'"
Darren UK

"It's all very well Camra trying to make beer drinking sexy, and good luck to it. I love a pint of Old Nadger's Footroot as much as any man, and the fight against fizz needs imagination and fervour. But the awful truth is easy to find out. Go to the Great British Beer Festival, and you'll find that the old cliched pot-bellied, obscure folk band T-shirted beardie afloat on his own beer farts is still a force to be reckoned with. Cheers! "
Rupert Goodwins, UK

Sorry, thread creep.

The Split crow in Halifax 75 cents a beer for an hour and all female pub crawls

The back bar of The Beehive, Helston has some memories :E

Those with a Service connection might like to join The Artists Rifles Club at Bisley. An excellent bar, good food, and a large function room, as well as B&B.

It has to be Florida 2000s in Nairobi, ratio about 50 to 1. Have to double bag at this little beauty.

Took a young army private in there and his eyes almost popped out, he went in a boy came out a man.

Top Bar
 

Tropicana’s in Minneapolis.
All girls wear bikinis, itsy bitsy ones, and dance on the bars for no reason, which they actively encourage you to do to!!
There is a bucking bull in the bar and a dentists chair, which they tip you back in, ask you what spirit you want and pour it down a channel in a very large block of ice into your gob, spin you several times in the chair and lob you out (invariably onto the floor or a cutie!).

Now that is a top place to go. Ahhhh got me all nostalgic now!

The Jolly Roger in Johannesburg, South Africa on a Sunday night. Half price pizza awesome jukebox, garuanteed 4 fights at least and plenty of young student lasses from the surrounds to entertain oneself...:}

Families Club, Dharan, Saudi Arabia, Thursday night, if its still in existance.
:ugh: :ugh: :ugh:, Bang your head against the wall night. :E

Current favourite bar to prop up is Darby's in Swanton Morley - best pint of Broadside (apart from Sole Bay!!) in East Anglia, a well inside the pub, tractor seats for ...er... seats and a huge fire!

I think real ale's sexy! And I never trust a man who drinks lager! Have yet to be proved wrong!

Cheers

Whirls

Silver's, Moscow. Count which Mafia bloke has the most or best tooled-up bodyguards.:uhoh:

Tractor seats? Only in East Angular, Bless.:)

PS What's that hotel/pub in Helston with a well in the bar floor, covered with armoured glass?

HELLLLLP!
Copacabana Beach, Rio De .............;)

A_A

Beehive wasn't bad, but the Blue Anchor for some real characters and a strong pint (Spingo ISTR - been a few years now) couldn't be beaten!!

Best Bar
 

"Toucan Bar" BAS.

Exclusive membership only :E

Nights tend to start with a bang.:rolleyes:
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Truthfully, OCCWMF's choice is not a bad one.:O

Lower Deck - Halifax
Sundance - St Johns
Step Inn - Limassol
Beach Bar - Kuala Lumpur
Fados - Atlanta
Desert Club - Seeley
Jimmy Loves - San Diego
Voodoo Lounge - Las Vegas
Mickeys - Ridgecrest
Towers - Singapore
Drink - Minneapolis
Planters - Bucharest
Cub Med - Cape Town

Althenick's very own "Bermuda Triangle" (Coz he gets lost between all 3)

All in Lossie

Steamboat - Ok on Sat Night especially if the band "2 FN Badd" are playing
Harbour bar - Sh1t hole but the cracks good and isn't frequented by Crabs
RNA on Commerce Street - Not many Ex Fish heads but a nice quiet place for a drink.

I like the Clifton as well but it's like a bl00dy crab mess - i mean what the hell is all that about? all they do is talk about there work. Why not just stay on camp and drink there.

BTW - i'm not getting at the crabs as I feel the same way about the other 2 services. :ok:

Trouble is I can't remember the names. Truth be it known I can't remember.

Did it have an entrance like a cinema, huge hall with bar at far end, outside area on the left with tables and parasols? If it did, I have never been there. The toilets were on the opposite side :)