My wife and I would like to visit the UK, Ireland and Scotland this next summer. Beside the normal tourist attractions we would love to take in a professional dart tournament with the likes of chizzy, Phil Taylor , Barney ,etc.
Can anyone recommend a large tournament venue, the location and who to contact for good tickets? Also, can anyone recommend some good dart pubs or other good dart venues? My only requirements is that they serve Murphy's and a board.

As time gets closer and we have an itenary in place I would like to meet some of you lift a few and pitch some darts.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

if you have the exact dates then we will know when any tournaments are on and where, guess you will have to wait until you have your itinerary is fixed so you will have an idea of your locations.

This site has a list of the PDC comps for 2013:

http://www.dartsmad.com/darts-news/2012/09/05/2013-pdc-tournament-calendar/

Make sure you come in July and go to Blackpool for.....
20-28July Betfair World Matchplay Blackpool

Tickets usually go on sale early feb.....fantastic atmosphere!

Grip,

Thanks for the link. It has helped us to start planing. Surely some of you can suggest some good pubs to play. We will not come with a tour group. When we travel we just start and take off and work from their.

Would like to vist winmau, dart corner, a180 other dart shops etc. we like to travel off the beaten path .

I think those shops are not too far from each other so you should be able to do that easily enough.

I am sure there is lots of pubs with darts in, but its not like it was say 30 years ago when just about every pub had a team.

I dont belong to a team myself but I'm sure some on here know decent places to pay a visit, I know there is pubs locally to me that have darts, but they are quite rough areas so I dont think I would recommend a stranger to go in LOL!

circus tavern ?

caroleo69 wrote:

Make sure you come in July and go to Blackpool for.....
20-28July Betfair World Matchplay Blackpool

Tickets usually go on sale early feb.....fantastic atmosphere!

Not trying to highjack the thread but it sounds like you've been there Carol. For us non UKers, can you tell us what it is like?

Fanbloomingtastic!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gotta get out my dictionaryathingyamingy to look up that word

Hahahaha!!!!!!! It's a new word i invented as it's that good.....be in next years dictionary!!!!

So do you go to the games all week, or pick your spots? Also, as a traveler who after I win the lottery plans to spend a lot of time in your country watching major events, what can you recommend as far as hotels, tips on getting around etc etc?

Win the lottery and then ask me again!!! In the meantime there is always good old google!!!

Is that Grip's new nickname?

poor grip !!!!

Worth his weight in tungsten though, from what I hear.

I have heard too!!!!!!!

Off to bed here - sorry again for highjacking the thread. I'm a newbie, first time I ever posted.

Liar , liar your pants are on fire!!!! You have 43 posts!!!!!!! Lolol!!!

He must of forgot his old password to his other name.

there was another bloke called nuckey who started of a bit shy but youll get the hang of it Nuckers.

I wonder what ever became of Nuckey, havent seen of heard from him in a while, just as well though he could be a real pain in the neck sometimes


@munchie Just go to ALL the pubs. Thats what Id do.

Good luck Munchie and wife.........probably would have been best to just post where you were going...........anyway i'm sure you will have a ball or is that a 180 time???

Without knowing where you are going it's difficult to recommend any pubs with boards - but if you come to London I'd suggest the Porters Lodge near Monument Station - it has 8 boards so you are fairly sure to get a game.

Come down the second Tuesday or last Friday of the month and you can most likely get to enter an open competition there along with a few county players and maybe even a pro - Andy Fordham has been to at least one and Deta Hedman has been to a couple as well. Richie Howson who won a card at Q School at the start of the year also turns up when the tour allows.

DIRTY G wrote:

there was another bloke called nuckey who started of a bit shy but youll get the hang of it Nuckers.

I wonder what ever became of Nuckey, havent seen of heard from him in a while, just as well though he could be a real pain in the neck sometimes


@munchie Just go to ALL the pubs. Thats what Id do.

Yeah, what ever became of the Nucky character? Probably living on a desert island somewhere eating coconuts, lying in a hammock all day with no internet.

I hear he ran off with a gay midget to some island to grow carrots.

What's wrong with carrots?