That indispensible adjunct to travelling round Britain has just got a lot more portable with the launch of the Good Pub Guide mobile edition. The printed version is well known to the vast army of pub enthusiast who live in the UK, and has been popular with the more discerning tourist who was spending a couple of weeks or more touring the country. Now, with the launch of the mobile version, it will be a cost effective way for anyone staying in Britain for a few days to ensure that they find a decent pub, for lunch, dinner or just as a place to rest for a while over a drink.

So many SMS and mobile applications are now quite expensive and so it worth emphasising the great value pricing of the Good Pub Guide. To download the application costs 50p and that gives you 50 credits. An inquiry is likely to use 20 credits and cost between 50p and £1.00 to receive and will list and map the ten nearest pubs in the guide. Look for more detail about a pub and it will cost you a few more credits. That’s it – buy more credits as you need them. So for less than the cost of a pint you can find a pub that has been visited, vetted and found to be good enough for the Good Pub Guide. If, like me, you have ever driven past half a dozen pubs trying to find one that looks good by judging its outward appearance and the contents of the car park, then the Good Pub Guide mobile edition is the answer to your lunch or dinner time prayers. I’ll drink to that!

So how do you get it? Simple, just text the word GOODPUB to 87080 and then follow the prompts to download.