I notice an area marked 'food and retail' there as well - I smell the whiff of charging to get in the 'posh paddock' with free access to that area to get fleeced (pun intended).

'The brewery' have a fairly bad reputation amongst landlords that I have known over the years, I remember them sticking 20p a pint on the beer in the Swan for TT fortnight a few years ago - everyone went elsewhere so it only lasted about five days. Obviously they will have got the concession through a well run, open and transparent tendering procedure like everything on the Island!!

How i yearn for the beer prices of  my first visit (1978), beer in the mermaid and the Raven was 23p compared to 46p in my local Sam Smiths pub, (60p in town)- we were all on about £20 a week and filled our boots - now you are faced with London pricing even in the dives