The Earl Haig, Hounslow

This is the worst run pub in Hounslow, the manager is miserable and delegates too much to her Polish assistant instead. There is no bonhomie or "mine host" attention. The gents toilet is disgraceful, the urinal does not flush ever, the toilet floor is always soaked leading to urine being walked back into the pub leaving a stale urinal smell to the area of the pub near the toilets. There are no disabled toilets, probably because the management as I hear are very much against anyone disabled and go out of their way to make them unwanted.

The pub is ideally located opposite Hounslow West tube station, the only pub in this area yet it offers no food other than crisps/nuts. The pub does not offer card payment either, cash or nothing. What pub in this day and age doesn't take cards, especially within a mile or two of Heathrow with foreign tourists etc around. Only pubs in decline that the breweries have given up on, pubs soon to become blocks of flats. Maybe that is why the manager is so miserable, or maybe why the pub owners put her there in the first place, to accelerate the decline.

Definitely a place to miss.

15 Dec 2013 11:07