The Daylight Inn, Petts Wood

30/1/12 The beautiful pub has descended into rack and ruin. Filthy litter strewn outside areas and beer garden. Beer bottles, glasses, 100's of cigarette butts all on public view from the pavement. Really puts down the conservation area it is located in and is indicative of the poor management currently in charge.

Inside the Gents toilets are filthy with urinals broken and leaking water onto floor. The rowdy and rough clientele the landlord encourages, take great advantage of plasma Sky sports tv. On Big Match days and weekends, with cheap booze the pub is a no go area, Landlord not in evidence.

This family pub in quiet residential area requires bouncers on the door, most nights, who are ineffectual in stopping overt misuse of substances in the pub toilets.

In short, this beautiful pub has suffered years of neglect by the incumbent landlord who has driven it into a cheap Wetherspoon's alternative that creates drink fuelled yobs watching endless hours of Sky sports.

This business model is seriously flawed as this public house has the potential to be a much better establishment.

30 Jan 2012 14:18