when the pubs do reopen

[Aqualung]

I'll leave it a few days. Wittendon above is dead right.

[Mobyduck]

If its a properly run pub there should be nothing wrong with the beer,if its crowded such is life, I'll be straight in there.

[Delboy20]

I'll be having a pint as soon as I am allowed to! No question.

[Aqualung]

I'm hearing on the News today that pubs & restaurants are likely to be the last to open up. They're talking about them staying closed for months rather than weeks. If they are still enforcing the distancing it's hard to see how a pub could viably operate.

[Mobyduck]

I'm hearing on the News today that pubs & restaurants are likely to be the last to open up. They're talking about them staying closed for months rather than weeks. If they are still enforcing the distancing it's hard to see how a pub could viably operate.

One in - one out, a long queue and an even longer wait.

[oldboots]

One in - one out, a long queue and an even longer wait.

Especially in a Wetherspoons, and they'll ask "who's next?"

[Mobyduck]

Especially in a Wetherspoons, and they'll ask "who's next?"

Nearly always a long wait in Spoons.

[AlanH]

Dunno. I don't like crowds, and I don't really want to creep out to a pub without drinkable beer.

I am the same. I probably won't dash out on opening day for the same reason that I don't go out Xmas Eve or New Years Eve. I prefer everyday normality and not rammed pubs, and as Wittenden says, Real Ale will take a while to come on tap with the pubs unlikely to get much notice of reopening.

[AlanH]

I rarely go to the PUG crawls unless they are in the south as I don't like travelling.Def going to Birmingham as that's somewhere I have wanted to go to for a long time

I only go to PuG crawls in the North because it's hard to get back to North Wales from the South (and Far East) but Birmingham a definite.

Could be a record attendance. Will it be ticket only?

[Tris39]

I'm hearing on the News today that pubs & restaurants are likely to be the last to open up. They're talking about them staying closed for months rather than weeks. If they are still enforcing the distancing it's hard to see how a pub could viably operate.

Absolutely. It will be the hospitality and entertainment industries that open last and as you say, more likely many more months than years. Any relaxation on the curfew will probably be for little more than visiting relatives. That said, I'll be in poll position on P. E. Day (Pub Event Day).