If people want to drink, they will do so. There are bars in the hotels where people can drink. Closing Garvey's will not reduce the amount that dedicated drinkers will consume alcohol.
So... that being the case, why is the government, or whoever, channeling the patrons of Garvey's into hotel bars. I'm not saying that *all* of Garvey's patrons were 'rig pigs' (such a lovely description) but from my experience plenty of them weren't the sort of people that hotels would want at their bars.
Is there some sort of policy in place in Doha to ensure that bars in hotels will be full of ex-Rugby Club and ex-Garvey's drinkers, since that is the sort of impression they want to give international visitors.
You can proceed jumping on me now for suggesting that ALL the patrons of the 2 places mentioned above are bar flies, but that's not what I'm saying. I just think it would be preferable if the patrons of those 2 places could have somewhere to drink and relax in comfort other than hotel bars. (Unless of course they want to match the number of rowdy and out of control Qatari drunks in the hotel bars with rowdy and out of control ex-pat drunks.)
Here's my view, even if no one asked.
If people want to drink, they will do so. There are bars in the hotels where people can drink. Closing Garvey's will not reduce the amount that dedicated drinkers will consume alcohol.
So... that being the case, why is the government, or whoever, channeling the patrons of Garvey's into hotel bars. I'm not saying that *all* of Garvey's patrons were 'rig pigs' (such a lovely description) but from my experience plenty of them weren't the sort of people that hotels would want at their bars.
Is there some sort of policy in place in Doha to ensure that bars in hotels will be full of ex-Rugby Club and ex-Garvey's drinkers, since that is the sort of impression they want to give international visitors.
You can proceed jumping on me now for suggesting that ALL the patrons of the 2 places mentioned above are bar flies, but that's not what I'm saying. I just think it would be preferable if the patrons of those 2 places could have somewhere to drink and relax in comfort other than hotel bars. (Unless of course they want to match the number of rowdy and out of control Qatari drunks in the hotel bars with rowdy and out of control ex-pat drunks.)