Blackpool pleasure beach - £5 to walk around!?

PinkLipgloss

marleyboy,

You have too much spare time on your hands!

Fancy creating some some resources for me? :rotfl:

pulliptears

They bought the new scheme in last October I think, only originally they didnt allow you to walk around and the fee was a standard £25 for entry.....
I think it fell on its arris somewhat as this was changed back to £5 entry plus the wristband.
Havent been since they started doing this, and wont go again I'm afraid.

Samba_Pa_Ti

pretty sure it was 20 pound each originally for a wristband, this works out cheaper but its crap for parents who dont go on any rides, doesnt bother me though as i dont go to the pleasure beach.

most of the people moaning about it were hoteliers around blackpool saying it would kill trade, it didnt.

iwanttosave_2

I didn't bother going recently because of this. If it was a theme park, then I wouldn't care about paying an upfront fee, but this is a seaside fair. Even if we didn't go on rides we used to have a walk round and have a go on some of the side stalls.

The company that own the place now did the same thing to Pleasure Land at Southport and look at that now.

PinkLipgloss

I have many fun childhood memories of Blackpool (anyone remember "Jungle Jim's"?). All of my extended family would head down for the illuminations every year and we had a great time at the pleasure beach and watching variety acts etc.

Around 6 years ago I went back (to see Peter Kay live) and I was totally shocked at what its become. It was full of drunks attending stag and hen nights wearing next to nothing shouting profanities in the street!

Def won't be going back.

woody01

I would rather cut my feet off and run over salt than go to Blackpool.

valos_mummy

I wouldn't mind going back there at some point, it was 1999 when I last went, my first proper holiday with mates (and we actually went on day trips and for nice meals in the evening, it wasn't a free for all week long bender like the majority of teenage group holidays are now)

I always remember "The Haunted Swing", this old ride that you could tell no-one went on anymore (it's closed now if I recall), but was actually an early version of the sort of ride "The Haunting" at Drayton Manor was based on. It had this creepy voice blaring out as you walked past: "Some people might think it's a little strange - living in a house with a haunted swing!" :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I loved the old rides, the mouse looked like this tame old rickety kids ride; but there wasn't the smoothness you have with the newer rides and whenever it turned you got jolted about and had to hang on for your life!

The carousel was good too, I dragged my best friend onto it and by sheer chance she ended up sitting on a horse with the same name as her

I thought it still had a lot of charm, but then that was 10 years ago, it may have all changed. Although I'd definetely want to go on that Pasaje ride, I didn't get to go last time and it looks a good scare!

and a £5 charge....well on one hand I can see it's a bit cheeky, but on the other, if it keeps the anti-social behaviour down so that it's the families and people who want to be there inside only then that's a good thing.

Valli

£5 to walk round the Pleasure Beach

cheapest admission to Alton Towers is for a disabled person/carer and that's £18.50 on the day or £14.80 on-line
Drayton Manor's cheapest is £12 for 60yrs+

Pleasure Beach is beginning to look like a real bargain!

pulliptears

Valli wrote: »

£5 to walk round the Pleasure Beach

cheapest admission to Alton Towers is for a disabled person/carer and that's £18.50 on the day or £14.80 on-line
Drayton Manor's cheapest is £12 for 60yrs+

Pleasure Beach is beginning to look like a real bargain!

But that includes rides. The £5 charge at the pleasure beach is just to be in the park, the rides are extra.

Valli

I know the option to ride IS there...but how many disabled people/carers/over 60s do you see on the rides?
If I were to take my kids (13 and 15) to Alton Towers (nearest theme park to me) I would have to stay in the car park all day, for which I would have to pay, or pay to go in the park. But I wouldn't want to ride. I don't have an option to enter the park and NOT ride and NOT pay!