Mariners Arms in North Shields

Cosey little proper pub.

Popped in for a quick beer. Pleasantly surprised by the price! Enjoyed chatting to the owner and the other customers, we live in Scotland so nice bit of friendly banter.

First time visit,very nice down to earth pub,no Aires and graces what I like. Simply,good beer,good atmosphere and pleasant staff,I will be back.

Very old pub, very small, toilets arent nicest .not the cleanest. Staff are lovely. Clearly No money has been invested in this pub for a long time. Drinks are reasonable priced.

I don't often write reviews, however, I feel that this place was that poor that it requires it to prevent anyone else from experiencing it. Whilst on a day trip to Newcastle we decided use the ferry service to cross the Tyne, afterwords whilst walking to the metro station to get back to the city thought it would be nice to drop in for a quick pint this bar. The first issue arose was trying to enter the bar. My friend had to push profusely at the door to try and get it to open, eventually he got it opened and I tried to follow, which only resulted in getting it slammed in my face. However when I finally did get in I had to stand behind it due to the bar having similar proportions to a small living room, thus having no where else to stand. Several seconds later I almost got knocked over whenever someother unfortunate sole that was entering slammed the door into me. The pub was small and cluttered, so much so that you had to push through a sea of day time drunks to even get to the bar. Eventually we got served by a fairly friendly lady, and preceded to look for a spot to sit, upon discovering that there was a room next door we fought our way through the doorway and got a seat. The next issue was how intimidated we felt by getting pointed and shouted at by the people in the next room. We soon overlooked this whenever a lady stormed in with a large pitbull dog that she could just about control, it jumped up on me whilst she looked us up and down. She didn't say anything to us, but turned to the other people and demended to find out who we were and what we were doing... nothing like visitors feel welcome. Anyway she then turned to us (at this point she pulled the dog away from me) She aggressively notified us that she was the landlady and she wanted to see ID. We presented her with it, for her to spend a surprising amount of time looking at it to then inform my friend that he was two years younger that the Dob on his licence? Her and the dog then tried to leave whilst the dog knock a drink over with a table. We took this opportunity to leave and I would not recommend this bar to any tourists.