Friday, 26 December 2025

Visitors Guide to The Channel Islands 1967 - Bars - Part 3




















L'ETACQ HOTEL
L'Etacq, St. Ouen.

Four bars and a ballroom with Chinese and Oriental bars. Snacks and sandwiches during the evening. Outside sitting area overlooking the whole sweep of St. Ouen's Bay. Cabaret, Monday-Saturday. Band night on Sunday.

Manager: M. Pollard.

Hours of Opening:
Weekdays: 9 a.m.-11 p.m.
Sundays: 11.30 a.m.-1 p.m., 4.30 p.m.-11 p.m.




















'TALK OF THE TOWN'
Norman House Hotel
First Tower and Victoria Avenue.
First Register.

Come and listen to our charming artist Chris Langton, who sings and plays every night, and is accompanied on Monday, Wednesday and Friday by bass guitarist, Rod Garwood. Every Wednesday throughout the season (starting May 10th) you can have the opportunity of listening to the delectable and delightful Hazel Fenton.

Sunday nights in the Beer Garden from 8 p.m. till 10 p.m. Jersey's youngest pop group "The Process"—weather permitting.

Proprietress: Mrs. Leach.





DOLPHIN BAR

















Well worth a special trip to Guernsey is the Dolphin Hotel at Rohais. First in the Island with Draught Guinness, it maintains a good reputation as the young executives' bar. You'll also meet some of the young growers and farmers who form the regular sporting contingent found there most nights. Toby, the landlord, at one time captained the Island at both cricket and rugger, and as a result the bar has a strong sporting atmosphere. You'll find the bar on the main road from St. Peter Port to Cobo, and there's plenty of parking space.

















OLD PORTELET INN
On the cliff tops overlooking Portelet Bay.

Built in 1606 the Old Portelet Inn has the greatest number of bars under one roof--the lounge, the left bar, the boat bar, stone bar, candlelight bar, floral bar and lounge bar—seven in all!

Collections of prints, paintings, swords and trinkets from all over the world decorate the bars. Outside visitors can sit and drink in comfort in the German beer garden.

Manager: Gentil Franco.

Hours of Opening: Usual licensing hours.


















THE SMUGGLERS INN
Ouaisne Bay. Tel. 41510.

For genuine olde worlde charm the Smugglers Inn really takes some beating. The Smugglers Lounge—thought to be at least 300-years-old—and the Smugglers Den are decorated in the style of yesterday.

The lounge contains the original old Jersey kitchen fire, including the hole on the side where bread was baked. The old oven, however, is not used for preparing snacks for hungry drinkers. Wally and Olga—no strangers to Jersey inns—took up the tenancy earlier this year and extend a very warm welcome to all visiting the picturesque lay.








GRAND ROCQUES HOTEL
Cobo — Guernsey.

Worth another daytrip to Guernsey!

A one-time public school, the Grand Rocques Hotel can be easily recognised for its unusual architecture. It's a country hotel, patronised by a strong nucleus of "locals", and well worth a visit to pick up some real Guernsey atmosphere. Claude Way, the landlord, will be able to entertain you with the history of a part of Guernsey that's changed very little since the last century.








QUEENS
St. Martin's — Guernsey.

Worth another daytrip to Guernsey!

A bar with an atmosphere—that's the Queens Hotel at St. Martin's. Go into the local bar, and you'll meet some of the local farmers, growers and fishermen. Occasionally, fish are weighed there! The bar lounge has a strong equestrian flavour, and up until recently horses were still kept at the Queens. Plenty of mementoes still decorate the walls. Follow the Fort Road to St. Martin's, and the Queens is on the left before the village.

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