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public beaches with bar service

N P
New York City
23 posts
public beaches with bar service

hi,

staying at the grotto at the end of may...

wanted to know if there were public beaches with a bar very close. am i allowed to bring my swizzle / daquari down to the beach?

im not talking like frat party and completely crazy on the beach. just a tropical island cliche that i want to be a part of!

USA
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1. Re: public beaches with bar service

The closest you get to a bar at a public beach is the MICKEY'S BISTRO bar and restaurant, down on the beach at the Elbow Beach Hotel. Anyone from the public portion of Elbow Beach can avail themselves of the bar and restaurant facilities here...or just get a drink at the bar and take it back to their beach towel. For the rest, you can bring your own beverage of choice with you out to the public beaches without problem. We usually travel with a soft-sided, 6-pack-sized cooler and 'blue ice', to take our own beverages out to the beach with us for the day.

Kent, United Kingdom
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2. Re: public beaches with bar service

Its against the law in Bermuda to drink in public places - beaches - parks - the street - if you do keep it hidden !

USA
37,720 posts
37 helpful votes
3. Re: public beaches with bar service

>>>Its against the law in Bermuda to drink in public places - beaches - parks - the street - if you do keep it hidden !<<<

TECHNICALLY....it is against the law to possess or consume alcoholic beverages on public beaches (qualifies as a public thoroughfare for the purposes of the law)....but having a drink on the beach--a Dark & Stormy, bottle of wine or beer or other alcoholic beverage on the beach is a breach of the law that is seldom (if ever) enforced---so long as you are not publicaly intoxicated or are disorderly or a public nuisance.

Over the many years, I've stood chatting with uniformed police officers and Park Rangers out along Bermuda's south shore beaches with a can or bottle of beer in my hand and never been either warned...or arrested.

Kent, United Kingdom
7,891 posts
111 helpful votes
4. Re: public beaches with bar service

I lived there for 9 years and never heard of anyone being arrested for drinking on the beach - and we used to take a drink with our picnic - but its still best to keep the bottles and cans hidden

Its a great pity there are no beach side bars as found in other countries - but perhaps thats one of the things that help make Bermuda special and different

Kent, United Kingdom
7,891 posts
111 helpful votes
5. Re: public beaches with bar service

Suggest you look at wwwtheroyalgazette.bm

today 6th May - item about an application to build a bar at Warwick Long Bay

Bermuda
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6. Re: public beaches with bar service

there's a bar at ft st catherine beach in st georges called beach it, just a couple minutes walk from tobacco bay which also has a bar.

USA
37,720 posts
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7. Re: public beaches with bar service

>>>item about an application to build a bar at Warwick Long Bay<<<

I recall a similar application made a couple/few years ago for a license to serve alcoholic beverages at Horeseshoe Bay. There were similar objections made by area residents. The application was rejected. Frankly, I can't really fault the neighborhood objections. Enviornmental concerns aside, the potential for any number of other more immediate problems such an establishment would create are substantive enough.

I'd forgotten about the bar (a thatched roof, bar and some stools) at Saint Catherine's Beach out in Saint George's....but now I seem to recall that there was some exception or loophole or another that the location came under that secured its approval.

The original redevelopment plan for the Coco Reef Resort (old Stonington Hotel on Elbow Beach) was supposed to include a beachfront bar..but that plan seems to have been shelved...no doubt shortly after Fabian changed the name of the original Mickey's-on-the-Beach to Mickey's-on-the-Reef.

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