Bringing your own drink into clubs.

Silenceisbliss

Why is this not allowed actually?

I can see the obvious reasons mangment want to enforce it, but is there actually any law stipulating that you may not bring your own drink into a club?

is it actually illegal or something managent just enforce so you buy rediculously over-priced drink inside?

SV

Who drinks in nightclubs? Get pissed and then head there.

Quint

Ah yes, I remember in my student days bringing 6 cans into the pub! My mate still brings vodka in and gets a coke. This thread should be renamed: Best ways of sneaking your own drink into pubs"

Collie D

I think the licence only covers drink bought on the premises, not sure but I'd say so.

Slightly OT My ex brough a bottle of Lucozade full of vodka into a club with her. The lounge girl tried to take the half-full bottle away at some stage during the night to which my ex protested saying she hadn't finished and she'd bought the Lucozade at the bar. The lounge girl pointed out they didn't sell Lucozade.

biko

It has something to do with that the bar area is a designated serving area and the licence is for this area and that alcohol only. If you bring drink in it's means that you bring unlicensed alcohol onto the premises, or something to that effect.

delllat

Silenceisbliss wrote: »

Why is this not allowed actually?

I can see the obvious reasons mangment want to enforce it, but is there actually any law stipulating that you may not bring your own drink into a club?

is it actually illegal or something managent just enforce so you buy rediculously over-priced drink inside?

the drink is ridiculously over priced to pay for the licence,barstaff,bouncers,cleaners,djs,entertainment as well as the cost of the actual liquid in the glass

thats why a can from tescos is €2 and pint is €6

there wouldnt be many clubs left if everyone started bringin their own drink

shenanigans1982

delllat wrote: »

the drink is ridiculously over priced to pay for the licence,barstaff,bouncers,cleaners,djs,entertainment as well as the cost of the actual liquid in the glass

thats why a can from tescos is €2 and pint is €6

So the cover charge is the profit?

Random

It's probably to do with controlling the amounts that people drink. The bar has a duty (I think!) to ensure it doesn't serve drunk people etc etc and that it doesn't serve excessive amounts to people.

They lose this ability to monitor etc when people are bringing their own drink and what not.

delllat

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

So the cover charge is the profit?

some clubs are free in

DarkJager

Sort yourself out with a bottle of buckfast before you even head to the club. All you'll need to buy then is a can or 2 of red bull to really get you climbing the ****ing walls....

Kid Nothing

DarkJager wrote: »

Sort yourself out with a bottle of buckfast before you even head to the club. All you'll need to buy then is a can or 2 of red bull to really get you climbing the ****ing walls....

But we're not all from Galway...

funk-you

The drink isn't overpriced. Thats just the price of drink in a nightclub. Forget your koka noodle student days and pay the asking price or just ya know....don't go to a nightclub...Now where's that stingy people thread gone...

-Funk

Biggins

How about this deal: A nightclub promotion offering customers unlimited alcohol for £5.99!
See: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Tokyo-Club-In-Oldham-599-Booze-Deal-Slammed-By-Alcohol-Concern-And-MP-Phil-Woolas/Article/200901415211778?lpos=UK_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15211778_Tokyo_Club_In_Oldham%3A_%3F5.99_Booze_Deal_Slammed_By_Alcohol_Concern_And_MP_Phil_Woolas

Cherryvega

delllat wrote: »

some clubs are free in

Exactly. Or if there's a door charge, they have drinks promotions :pac:

minidazzler

Here's my tiips for a cheap night out.

You will need,
1 70cl bottle of Tesco Vodka, - €15
1 3 litre bottle of Lemonade - €2
1 6pack of your Favourite(or cheapest) beer.

Drink said alcohol before you head out, if you get turned away from the club, you won't care because you are pissed anyway.

Go home, Drink the rest of your Alcohol, and Pass out.

Don't see a great night wasted, get wasted before you go out, and leave the wallet at home.

Naikon

delllat wrote: »

the drink is ridiculously over priced to pay for the licence,barstaff,bouncers,cleaners,djs,entertainment as well as the cost of the actual liquid in the glass

thats why a can from tescos is €2 and pint is €6

there wouldnt be many clubs left if everyone started bringin their own drink

You speak some sense here.
Sure drink is expensive, but so is overheads. There is justification for the price depending on which place you go to.

I can cook a mean steak at home for **** all, screw the restaurants:pac:

Sútalún

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Naggin.
Works all the time..
Except that one time the bouncer felt me in the wrong place.
Or when it fell out of my pocket and smashed in the jacks.
Yourman with the sprays wasn't best pleased. Didn't offer me a chewing gum..

ShooterSF

Biggins wrote: »

How about this deal: A nightclub promotion offering customers unlimited alcohol for £5.99!
See: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Tokyo-Club-In-Oldham-599-Booze-Deal-Slammed-By-Alcohol-Concern-And-MP-Phil-Woolas/Article/200901415211778?lpos=UK_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15211778_Tokyo_Club_In_Oldham%3A_%3F5.99_Booze_Deal_Slammed_By_Alcohol_Concern_And_MP_Phil_Woolas

Biggins ya legend. Meself and 12 mates are heading to liverpool for a night thanks to rynair's €1 flights might have to get a bus up to Oldham instead if we can get a night bus back

df1985

in my college days i regularly brought a naggin/shoulder into a club in my sock.havent done it a long time but might be the way to go to save a few bob, i never have a proper night out in dublin for less than 100quid.sneaky naggin it is this weekend i think!!

friend of mine works in an offlicence and she said recently sales of the little 50ml bottles have rocketed.there easy to get in, people just dont have the money anymore.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Would you bring your own food into a resturaunt? It's rediculously over priced in most places... (I know the margin of profit in some places is actually pretty low)

thebigcheese22

The Can Can club in the Liquid Lounge in Cork sells cans for 2 euro, hot dogs for 1 euro, and has cracking music!

BaconZombie

But it is in Cork......

thebigcheese22 wrote: »

The Can Can club in the Liquid Lounge in Cork sells cans for 2 euro, hot dogs for 1 euro, and has cracking music!

blow69

thebigcheese22 wrote: »

The Can Can club in the Liquid Lounge in Cork sells cans for 2 euro, hot dogs for 1 euro, and has cracking music!

Amen to that!
I believe they show Family Guy on the top floor aswell....just incase you get bored.

Sútalún

BOFH_139 wrote: »

But it is in Cork......

Exactly. We all live in Dublin here.

rubadub

My personal best was a 2L flagon of wine into the temple of sound, when they were finding E's in peoples mini jeans pockets. Frisked head to toe and they didn't find it.

For the high tec stasher, get the neoprene beer belly to keep it cold
http://www.after5catalog.com/cocktailblog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/beer-belly.jpg

jester77

Sútalún wrote: »

Exactly. We all live in Dublin here.

Some of us live in places where the pubs are open all night, public transport runs all night and beers can be gotten for as little as €1.50 - €2.00 in some of the pubs

DubLass

The best one Ive ever seen was when my friend brought a big wrapped pressie into a 40th party we were at in a hotel, the pressie contained 12 bottles of miller for herself for the evening

BaconZombie

DAMN YOU!!!!!!

I've just come back from Berlin but was to sick to enjoy it.....

1€ Beer + 1€ Bradwurst = WIN

jester77 wrote: »

Some of us live in places where the pubs are open all night, public transport runs all night and beers can be gotten for as little as €1.50 - €2.00 in some of the pubs

I like the way your friend thinks....

DubLass wrote: »

The best one Ive ever seen was when my friend brought a big wrapped pressie into a 40th party we were at in a hotel, the pressie contained 12 bottles of miller for herself for the evening

useful_contacts

DubLass wrote: »

The best one Ive ever seen was when my friend brought a big wrapped pressie into a 40th party we were at in a hotel, the pressie contained 12 bottles of miller for herself for the evening

HA NOW THATS GOOD.

A friend and i only had 20euro each so we drank at home, had a bottle of aldi vodka (9e for a shoulder but its 22% alcohol) and poured them into the small aldi juice bottles and brought them to the club with us

Was a good night:D

thebigcheese22

Sútalún wrote: »

Exactly. We all live in Dublin here.

ya, evidently... :rolleyes:

cooperguy

Cherryvega wrote:

Exactly. Or if there's a door charge, they have drinks promotions

Id love to know where you go out cause I dont see that! Sure free in sometimes but drinks promotions when there is a cover charge, not where im from!

MIN2511

Ah... I only drink cider these days...

Argh... I can carry bottles in my bag

Last week i was out with friends and i carried a bottle of bulmers light from Dawson Lounge to Bruxells-no point wasting it!

orestes

DubLass wrote: »

The best one Ive ever seen was when my friend brought a big wrapped pressie into a 40th party we were at in a hotel, the pressie contained 12 bottles of miller for herself for the evening

That is bloody genius!

I still do the shoulder of vodka thing if I'm heading out for a night, walk straight in with it in the back pocket underneath a full length trench-coat, never fails

Red Alert

People used to smuggle dutch gold into the student bar in UCD.

minidazzler

jester77 wrote: »

Some of us live in places where the pubs are open all night, public transport runs all night and beers can be gotten for as little as €1.50 - €2.00 in some of the pubs

So what your saying is, Party at your Gaff???

Red Alert

Another reason to go to a country other than Ireland... something tells me the women there are savage too wherever that is!

brianthebard

Sútalún wrote: »

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Naggin.
Works all the time..
Except that one time the bouncer felt me in the wrong place.
Or when it fell out of my pocket and smashed in the jacks.
Yourman with the sprays wasn't best pleased. Didn't offer me a chewing gum..

Use malibu from now on, sure its weaker, but the naggin is plastic, no more breakages.

minidazzler

Red Alert wrote: »

Another reason to go to a country other than Ireland... something tells me the women there are savage too wherever that is!

And even if they are not, a little help from Comrade Smirrnoff, and his Pals, will soon make them savage!!!

xOxSinéadxOx

I always bring a shoulder out with me. the present thing is bloody brilliant!

Rabies

I kick people out when ever I see them drinking alcohol that wasn't purchased in my bar. On Fri/Sat nights when I walking the floor I'm always looking for it.

If you want to drink on my premises, you buy the alcohol there.

If the cops come in and do a random check on (happens a lot) and they find someone wasted in my bar, then I can get a fine of a few grand, lose my mangers licence and bar licence. Doesn't matter to the cops if I tell them the y never had a drink in the bar. We are supposed to look out for the safety of customers.

Sútalún

brianthebard wrote: »

Use malibu from now on, sure its weaker, but the naggin is plastic, no more breakages.

To be honest that was ages ago..
Yeah I wouldn't fancy bringing a glass bottle into a club to be honest. Then leave it in the jacks and pretty much handing someone a weapon.

BraziliaNZ

do they have BYO restaurants in Ireland at all?

S.I.R

delllat wrote: »

some clubs are free in

but some have 2 euro drinks nights ( i.e bondi... ) but thats for the young ones... not ye' old timers.

Quint

rubadub wrote: »

My personal best was a 2L flagon of wine into the temple of sound, when they were finding E's in peoples mini jeans pockets. Frisked head to toe and they didn't find it.

For the high tec stasher, get the neoprene beer belly to keep it cold
http://www.after5catalog.com/cocktailblog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/beer-belly.jpg

:eek:
Didn't even know they existed! It was a vintage bordeaux i'm sure. Was it a good year?

madmik

jester77 wrote: »

Some of us live in places where the pubs are open all night, public transport runs all night and beers can be gotten for as little as €1.50 - €2.00 in some of the pubs

yeah but u gotta put up with the german humour to get that

no thanks

jester77

madmik wrote: »

yeah but u gotta put up with the german humour to get that

no thanks

I take it you haven't been!

Cherryvega

cooperguy wrote: »

Id love to know where you go out cause I dont see that! Sure free in sometimes but drinks promotions when there is a cover charge, not where im from!

Louth

The clubs are total sh!te, but you can get hammered on 20 quid

Rabies

Rabies wrote: »

We are supposed to look out for the safety of customers.

And we look out for the bank balances. I bring a naggin in when I go out...normally anyway.

If u were to do an "honest" night out in Dublin drinkin only in the pubs, then including entrance fees, payin more than 5 euro a pint just to "pre drink" and then the cost of the m,ore expensive drinks later + taxi fares and food you'd be looking at €150 at least.

I do most nights out on €40 - €50 quid nowadays.

MrsA

Deleted User wrote: »

And we look out for the bank balances. I bring a naggin in when I go out...normally anyway.

If u were to do an "honest" night out in Dublin drinkin only in the pubs, then including entrance fees, payin more than 5 euro a pint just to "pre drink" and then the cost of the m,ore expensive drinks later + taxi fares and food you'd be looking at €150 at least.

I do most nights out on €40 - €50 quid nowadays.

Simple lesson to be learned there so - if you cannot afford it well then don't go out.

I would hate to think that my skinflint behaviour could cost someone their job.

M

MrsA

MrsA wrote: »

Simple lesson to be learned there so - if you cannot afford it well then don't go out.

I would hate to think that my skinflint behaviour could cost someone their job.

M

I stand by what i said. I don't wanna cause anyone to lose their job but clubc rip everyone off and houseparties are hard to come by.

Zangetsu

I have one of those long officie type jackets with loads of pockets, I've made an art out of getting booze in and out of clubs. Bottle each pocket going in with one up right sleeve (passport in left hand). Get about 6 beers in (8's my record).