Comments on: Guinness Prop 3-17 to Make St. Pat’s Official Holiday

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:53:54 +0000

We travelled there with our three daughters. We found all informations on amsterdam.info. Amsterdam it is a very beautiful town and the museums are great. But with the exchange rate as it is, we found it very expensive. Some museums were closed for refurbishment, but the views of the canals and hi-lights such as the Anne Frank House and the Artis Zoo (an old-fashioned place with a great array of animals kept in somewhat cramped conditions) are very memorable. The food is awful unless you want to spend a great deal of money and there is a cynical attitude to tourists that is very out of date (e.g. tapas marinaded pork was one slice of fried bacon on 1/2 a bread roll). We stayed in the serviceable but expensive Singel Hotel which was okay but its close proximity to a red light area made going out with the children awkward and there really was nothing charming or liberated about hurrying past the ladies in the windows. The same is true of the legal dope selling ‘coffee houses’. The whole bicycle thing is interesting. It is almost, but not quite, the eco-city of the future. Some cyclists are quite anarchic and we spent a fair bit of time dodging pavement mounted bad-tempered riders. Overall verdict was we were glad we’d been but wouldn’t go again as it feels over priced, out of date and sleazy – not the cutting edge hip family friendly town it’s sold as.

By: patrick wm. foster

patrick wm. foster — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:54:41 +0000

Of course I want St. Patricks’s Day to be a holiday! IT’S MY BIRTHDAY and I am proud to be called PATRICK

By: Reuben

Reuben — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:59:03 +0000

I never knew about proposition 3-17. While Guinness may not be my favourite beer or even my favourite stout, I am partial to it and it is among the only mass produced beers I drink. Fair play to Guinness for trying to make it a holiday in the US. You guys have far too few Holidays over there. Needless to say that I will not be working, nor will most of the country (Ireland) as we will be too busy drinking.
Perhaps Guinness should petition to have the archaic laws that exist in some parts of the US that ban alcohol. Some have total bans, other counties might have a no Sunday Beer law. Holland Michigan springs to mind. You can not have beer or wine on Sunday but since that is all the law states, You can get as pissed as you like on hard liquor. Its madness.