Salt Lake Vacation Rentals: Interesting Liquor Laws

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If you are taking a trip into a Salt Lake vacation rentals area, the first thing that you need to understand is that Salt Lake City, Utah is home-base for the LDS Mormon Church. Travelers will notice cultural influences from this church group throughout their stay in the Salt Lake vacation rentals area. The Mormon religion expects its members to dress nicely, and to be very family oriented in all of their dealings. This should be good news for families traveling into any Salt Lake vacation rentals areas; SLC a child friendly city.

But not everything about the Salt Lake vacation rentals area is devoted to the Mormon religion. The local government has about 90% Mormon influence, but there are other people living in the Salt Lake City area. What this means is that this city has stringent drinking and smoking laws in place to govern over these non-Mormon activities. The tourists who flocked into the Salt Lake vacation rentals area to view the 2002 Olympics games were not exposed to the laws as they are actually written.

These Salt Lake vacation rentals and tourist area liquor laws are confusing.

If a tourist would like to have a drink, the State regulates the exact amount of alcohol that will go into the shot glass: 1.5 ounces. If the drinker would like a drink that has a little more kick in it, he may order another shot glass of alcohol to go into the glass. The catch: the drinker may not order the same kind of alcohol that is already in the glass. If you have rum in your ordered mixed drink, you are only allowed to buy a shot of tequila, vodka, or gin etc. – not another shot of rum for your drink.

If a tourist visiting a Salt Lake vacation rentals area would like to order 2 shots of rum to sit side-by-side on his table, he may do that. This same tourist may also order a glass of cola to sit on the table beside his two shots of rum. The tourist can not order a rum based mixed drink and have it sit on the same table beside another shot of rum.

If a tourist visiting a Salt Lake vacation rentals area would like to buy some fruit flavored wine coolers to sip beside the hot tub, you will need to go find them in a State run liquor store. The Mormons believe that their children should not be exposed to any fun looking bottles that have pictures of fruit coupled with an alcohol content. Alcohol content in both wine coolers and beer is less than in all other states. Utah only allows beer to have 3.2% alcohol in it.

As tourists will notice if they choose to visit the Salt Lake vacation rentals nightlife scene, these crazy alcohol laws somehow seem to work backwards from what was intended by the Mormon law makers. People do drink too many beers. People do mix various kinds of stronger alcohol into one glass. People do give up trying to figure out what they’re allowed to drink, and turn to drinking straight shots.

Tourists who are planning on visiting the Salt Lake vacation rentals area who enjoy seeing a different style of nightlife will probably enjoy Salt Lake City very much. This is a city that caters to family-style good morals by day and one that gets a bit wild after dark. While in the Salt Lake vacation rentals area, never attempt to drive after you have been drinking; call one of the taxi-cabs, or find a completely sober driver for the ride home. Drinking laws in Utah include very stiff fines for those found drinking and driving.

July 21st, 2008 Posted by Catherine | Uncategorized | no comments