Blackpool - how many days could you stay ?

snowball

I've not been for many many years, I thought they were giving Blackpool a facelift :?:

Julie

dreamdaisy

I've never been to Blackpool - I don't like big places, I find them too noisy and tiring. If we do venture northwards again I'd go for the day, but no longer. All our seaside towns have difficulties now don't they? Package travel put an end to the traditional seaside holiday. Cromer is a real marmite destination - you either love it or loathe it. I'm in the latter camp, it's all grotty bed-sits, Lithuanians and benefit scroungers. Sheringham was lovely but that too is sliding downhill.

Brighton - now that's fabulous! The Husband and I went there last summer for our wedding anniversary. We rented a seafront flat, just down from the burned-out pier. Loved it, loved the vibe and excitement of the place. Hopefully we'll go back there soon. Dreamdaisy

snowball

A lot of my holidays have been on the East coast mainly Bridlington but thats run down now, last time I went most of the shops had closed and that was in season.
You've got me thinking about where I should go for my next holiday, definitely not Blackpool :shock:

Julie

snowball

I shouldn't laugh its sad really it was once a great tourist seaside place, I am talking a very long time ago. Why anyone would want to have a hen or stag weekend there baffles me.


Julie

joanlawson

I think that the plan is to turn Blackpool into a Las Vegas of the North, but they will have a long way to go to change its image. My recollections of Blackpool are being taken there as a child, and it always seemed to be raining. I did like the Tower though.

suncatcher

I stayed a week a few years back. I would never do it again that oily sea. I was bored seen it all before all the sights. It is so run down and the beach is so bad. It would take a load of money to do up.

bubbles

It's a fair few years since I have been, then it was only for the day, with a walk up the "golden mile", it was in decline then and has the reputation of stag and hen night town now, as you say. I don't wish to see people falling in gutters, pickled on cheap booze, wearing low cut jeans with their bellies hanging out, looking totally chavtastic.

It used to be fun, way back when, 20 plus years that is.

ironic

My Dad lived near Cleveleys, spend alot of years charging up the motorway to look after him. Spent a great deal of time at Victoria Hospital. Like a rabbit warren. :? Would never dream of spending time in Blackpool at weekends or night though. The new sea parade is lovely and we have walked along the Cleveleys bit when the lights are on. Love watching the sea in all its moods. The villages just outside are totally different. We spent our days out as kids, at St. Annes. Running around the dunes. Different times we lived in. :roll:

ninakang

I loved Blackpool, we took our girls there when they were little. But my hubby went with his friends one weekend and he said it had really gone downhill and we shouldn't take the girls there anymore.

Shame - I loved the place. Living in the Midlands and so far away from any seaside, seeing the sea is always a treat.

Nx

tkachev

alanmancunian wrote:

snowball...... the Rochdale Scooter Club used to go to Briddlington
every summer on a scooter weekend, that place is like St Tropez in comparison with Blackpool.

Scooter clubs still do. Bridlingon is one of he better places.

Elizabeth(former scooterist from the south)

oneday

It does seem to have changed and is more "built up" and busy. Once areas change to cater for youths and drinking sessions its all down hill. St Annes down the road is quieter. Rhyl, not passed through for a few years..looks like has potential but just left to dilapadate. Llandudno down the road from there better.

In a nutshell it seems once alcohol is around its all down hill.
Another example caravan sites..ones with entertainment on site unfortunately bring in some yob type families who cant entertain themselves wheras sites with absolutely nothing by way of bar,entertainment etc have more considerate family types. i used to go to a site that had a pool (main reason we went) but the fact that there was some entertainment the types of people there were totally different..ie. yobs..than sites with nothing.
I like the odd alcoholic drink but think the country would be better without it.

dachshund

My sister and i used to go to blackpool a few years ago.
we always went for a fortnight we thought it lovely we dont go now because we have dogs and its more expensive to put dogs into kennels.
we always went self catering and we had to have
ground floor accom as my sister is in a wheelchair.
joan xx

joanlawson

Blackpool is to have £40 million spent on it, so it will be interesting to see whether it can change its image in the future.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/leisure/article7082081.ece

jaspercat

Hi, we went to Blackpool a few years ago, stayed in a lovely b/b, parts of Blackpool are a bit seedy at night, we enjoyed the zoo, we would go back for 2 or 3 nights quite happily love Jaspercatxx

barbara12

Hi like many of you , we used to take the children to Blackpool, but over the years it has gone down hill, I must say we love taking our grandchildren to st annes...hopefully they will improve Blackpool and people will return.

noeltone

Hi Alan and all you've obviously not been to great Yarmouth Blackpool is a gem compared to it only kidding like lots of seaside towns they take a lot of money to upkeep and control once the season is over its all downhill again //////////

dachshund

Hi Noel
we have been to great yarmouth and i agree
blackpool is lovely.
joan xx

noeltone

Hi Joan they say the great is not back in yarmouth yet but it will be Great again one day mind you they've been saying that for years!!!!!

tkachev

Many happy memories of Yarmouth.

Elizabeth

fester

Gill and i went to Blackpool back in '95' for our honeymoon (best we could afford) and really enjoyed it. Back then it was still fairly decent, then we went on our tenth anniversary to rekindle old memories.Needless to say we left before our stay was up, drunks,junkies, the place stank and was filthy. Never ever again i'm afraid,was hoping to try Scarborough this year but our health dictates otherwise i'm afraid

valval

was trying to remember last time went to blackpool and not sure it not because it gone down hill but because the trains are a night mare to get there from here . we used to take the boys was much easyer when had a car and loved to take them for the iluminations think it was day trip(bus) last time we went couple of years ago and did have a good time.
greatyarmouth well have had some great holidays there even in recent years as easy to get to on train and nice and flat. love to be near the sea. mind you i enjoy any where we go there always some where off the beaten track where there no yobs and get up early they still in bed lol

mellman01

I went there back in the late 90’s when I was up that way doing a radiation monitoring contract and all I can say is was very close to my experience of Skegness, ie I wouldn’t ever want to repeat it, we had only just walked down to the tall fair ride they have and as we came round the corner there was a security guard having a fight with a drunk, we had a quick look round and left, and like Skeggy the only thing that could enhance the place in my view would be a tsunami and or a meteor strike!.

rondetto

alanmancunian wrote:

I used to like the place when I was a kid, but I probably would stay no longer than 24hrs these days. The Blackpool Tourist Board must have nightmares, because its a basically a town in decline.
Poor Hotel accommodation, junkies, alky's, bedsit squalor, you name it, it's got it.
Stag nights, this is the place for you, if I see another group of 70 strong women paralytic with booze on a hen night by 10 o'clock, I'll scream.
Anyone with kids stay away, its even £5 to set foot in the Pleasure Beach. I know there's a lot of Southerners on here who don't set foot " up north " much, well don't go to Blackpool if you do', and if you go to Rhyl treble everything i've said in the above thread because that place is like Bosnia

You are quite right Alan, they've let Blackpool slide into a Mafia controlled resort over the past decade. Streets are not safe at night, there are junkies, muggers and as you say, countless Hen and stag parties around the town.
It's a great shame because as kids it was a family resort, they should take a leaf out of many resorts abroad who have smartened up and cater for the entire family these days.
I feel far safer in Benidorm than in Balckpool.

valval

been thinking about this and my night mare holiday was bornemouth it was closed and that was in may even the large cinima on sea front was not open and had to walk up path through park to get to apartments saw fox one evening would not go back there again

dreamdaisy

Well, you've all done a thorough job and I now have no intention of going to Blackpool ever! I'll Google earth it instead. Dreamdaisy

valval

what i do not understand is why my self and oh can go abroad all inc. for a week with pool ect for less than a week here does not make any sence to me