Kirstie said:I hate eating alone when away with work. It's worse if you're female because you get a lot of unwanted attention/stares etc.
So take away in the room it is for me, and exploring only in daylight.
This struck me the other day, a colleague is going on a course that I was on earlier this year, so I was automatically reccomending a lovely little pub with real fire, good beer and WiFi not fsr from the Hotel
She said the same thing - does not like going into pubs on her own for the reasons you give.