Dozens in a city of millions. Meanwhile they still have plenty in the centre shutting at 11pm. Which you don't find in major cities elsewhere.
I wasn’t suggesting that Hull has more late night places than New York ! I was merely saying that even New York isn’t as 24hrs as people often think
Yeah Hulls **** blah blah blah. Castro, what happened to you here? It must have been awful. Whatever it was, it could have happened anywhere you know.
Supply and demand. If more people wanted more late night drinking, then there'd obviously be more late night drinking spots. There's over 50 bars and pubs open until the early hours already and several open 24 hours, plenty of options for those who want them.
I didn't say you were. It was a light hearted response to the light hearted remark about Herons being open until 8pm.
24 hours a day? Even Berlin has started insisting bars close for at least one hour for cleaning. 50 bars in a city of how many million? There could be all the demand going but if licencing laws restrict opening hours it makes no difference. In Hull the night time economyn(what a bloody awful phase) is deemed to be late night by the authorities if open after 11pm.
I quote Hull because I lived there. Where I live now is equally crap. Some late night places no one over 30 would wish to be in though the police have got the hours reduced for most of the 5am ones in any case. Nowhere like the continent where oldies or families can go out late and feel comfortable. No meals after 9pm and in any case under 18s have to be out by then. The police go round regularly to make sure a 15 year old isn't in there with their parents at 9.15. Bear in mind this is a holiday resort. You can see why so many go abroad for their holidays. You can't even go in amusenent arcades unaccompanied under 16 nowadays and not at all after 6pm. Which would have buggered us up as 13 and 14 year olds in the 1960s where we spent most of our waking hours round the juke box. Funny how things change. When I left school I went to work in Leeds. The nightlife was that crap there in those days they used to run trips to Hull for a night out. Not that anywhere was open later they just thought it was livelier with more choice.
The thing about late night all night opening is that in some hours of the early morning I have no wish to be out. For example, take 2 popular destinations for British tourists, Benidorm and Aya Napa, I have been out in the early morning in both, and much younger, and it's frightening. If you are not in a large group, mate's to look after each other that type of thing, then you had better be very careful. Unfortunately many Brits are drunk and are easy targets for local criminals, and I despaired at some of the girls who were totally out of it, just glad it wasn't my daughter. Even High Street in Hull was not all that welcoming in its heyday, unless you were pissed of course.
Really? So there is no demand from all the tourists not accustomed to being asked by a bloke ringing a bell at 11pm and asking if you have a home to go to? There is a demand in all other major European cities but not innthis country, the supposed home of binge drinking boozers? Presumably until the 1990s the bars shut at 10.30pm and were closed at night not because of licensing laws but there was no demand. That must be why you saw Brits all heading back to their hotels in Spain, Greece etc at 10.30 and leaving the Germans and others to it. The main problem is, apart from in this country there is a large body of authority which likes nothing better than to restrict what you can do, is that our late night transport system is crap compared to elsewhere.
At my age all night drinking isn't my scene. In any case Imammone of those whondoesn't go out for weeis but when I do can easily drink 8, 10 or 12 pints in 3 hours depending on my mood so wouldn't last. My objection is that we have ridiculous, rigid licensing laws compared to other countries, pubs havingbto openmso many hours a day whether busy or not but shutting when packed with no flexibility. Ironically prior to WW1 we had some of the most liberal licensing laws in Europe. Once they got them restricted,supposedly because of the risk of munitions workers drinking too much, and only as a temporary measure, the puritans and Methodists grabbedmthe chance to make this country have the most restricted opening hours,
