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The pet world's version of the ultimate hotel guide. Featuring hundreds of properties throughout the UK where ALL the family are welcome. With Pet friendly pubs and a selection of recommended walks. Current (2008) version available now at £7.50 including postage within the UK (postage abroad charged at cost). £1 of the cost can be donated to the Animal charity of your choice - see guide for details.

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When travelling to your accommodation stop off for a meal, refreshment or overnight stay at one of the many inns featured on our site (remembering to stick to non-alcoholic drinks if you are a driver). We feature a range of places that especially welcome children and/or pets with facilities to suit. To view a selection of properties Click Here and complete the following form with as many details as possible about the area you are visiting and the facilities you would like.
  Recommended Inns & Pubs of Britain
 
Hundreds of friendly pubs, inns and small hotels. Accommodation for holidays, short breaks, outings and day trips. A rich choice of where to enjoy the best of traditional British hospitality. Includes our guides to Family-Friendly and Pet-Friendly Pubs! Colour maps. The current (2008) version is available now at £6.00 including postage within the UK (postage abroad is charged at cost). Click Here to purchase a copy.
   
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  Visiting British Pubs
If you are visiting Britain for the first time and are using some of the thousands of British pubs there are a few points which might help.
The pubs throughout the UK vary tremendously in style, content and ambience. If you look around you will soon find one to suit you.
You will often find that in a pub, as opposed to a restaurant, there is unlikely to be waitress service. Drinks are normally bought at the bar and to avoid a crush it is customary for only one or two people from a group to go up to the bar to buy the drinks.
If you do order as a group the bar staff will give the total cost and expect a single payment. Unlike foreign bars, it is not normal in British pubs to run up a bill or 'Tab'. You pay for drinks in cash when you receive them.
Pubs will normally not be allowed to open before 11.00am (12.00 on Sundays) and last orders for drinks must be made before 11.00pm in England and Wales (10.30 on Sundays). Scotland has more liberal licensing laws and you are likely to find more pubs open until midnight. No-one under age 18 can buy or consume alcohol.
Most pubs will have a wide range of drinks, in particular a variety of beers ranging from imported ones, often bottled, to the beers on draught (on tap). It is worth trying a range of ales, stouts, bitter and lager (in Scotland try 'Heavy' or 'Seventy Shilling') but remember that beer is sold in pints (more than half a litre) or half pints. If trying a beer for the first time it is probably better to start with a half pint, as some of the local brews can be fairly potent.
The main 'Rule' however about British pubs is to relax, enjoy yourself and remember that the pubs can be a good place to meet local people and to find out about the area you are visiting.
   
  Pub Signs
Many pubs throughout Britain have interesting and highly decorative pub signs. The tradition of using signs outside pubs became popular in the 12th century when most of the pub customers were illiterate and therefore a recognisable sign was the easiest way of attracting business.
In 1393 King Richard II made it compulsory for all alehouses to display a sign and they became a useful form of advertising.Some of the signs have proved to be highly prized works of art and there is currently a thriving trade in originals and reproductions of pub signs. More information and a selection of signs can be found on the BLRA website.


Signs often include animals such as horses, dogs, cats e.g.

In general, as signs are fairly expensive to produce, they depict items which will be valid in future years such as The Rose or The Swan-but if personalities are chosen some may remain more familiar than others. Most people will know the person on the ' Marilyn Monroe' sign but younger visitors might struggle to recognise the 'Cheeky Chappie'.
and sometimes as in the 'White Horse' at Chilgrove the animals appear to get slightly mixed.
The Rose The Swan Monro's Cheeky Chappie
   

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