Blackpool - What's It Really Like?

photome

Whats happened to the OP

FWIW I think if you have never been go for it and make up your own mind, i suspect if you do go, you will never return, it really is the pits!

The pleasure beach is fun though, if you like coasters

carlislelass

We haven`t been for 4yrs, though staying in blackpool we tended not to spend every day there. places like Stanley park, zoo, Fleetwood( get ferry over to Knott End if still working) Cleveleys (new sea-front), Lytham, ride tram from Starr gate to Fleetwood.

zenmaster

Thanks for all your responses.

For once I was hoping to be knocked down and told I should not be so judgemental and that it was a really nice place. Sadly, with one or two exceptions, that doesn't appear to be the general consensus.

The hotel is "one of three Britannia-owned hotels in Blackpool", so there's a good chance it would be Norbreck Castle though, to be fair, it doesn't sound that bad.

There are trips to Morecambe and Southport which, frankly, sounds like more of the same.

I've not ruled it our completely but at the moment I'm inclined towards Whitby/Scarborough with trips to York and Eden Camp.

I've also never done a coach tour before. That, in itself, might be an endurance.

It's a shame that Blackpool is so run down. Let's hope that the regeneration efforts will bring about a turn for the better.

zenmaster

bambinaUK wrote: »

Just don´t do the mystery tour as like my friend you could end up back home :rotfl: yep the mystery location was her home town, she didn´t know whether to just go back to her house or get back on the coach back to blackpool to get on another coach home.

We also looked at this and thought we'd probably end up
a) in Blackpool anyway having paid an extra £40 or
b) just down the road

You would think that, when allocating the mystery seats, they would take into account your point of departure.

withabix

zenmaster wrote: »

The hotel is "one of three Britannia-owned hotels in Blackpool",

Savoy, Metropole (used to be Butlins) and Norbreck Castle are all pretty poor.

Check out Tripadvisor if you don't believe me.

Very poor comments indeed!

I would give Whitby a go.

Sharon87

The last time I went Blackpool I did enjoy it. But I mostly go for the Pleasure Beach anyway. I was in Hunstanton the other month and god that is awful. We went to a really quiet beach near Hunstanton with sandunes, which was really nice, but there's literally nothing there, no food or anything. So we went to get some fish and chips. Blackpool is so much better, more to do, even if it's a bit run down. I tend to stick to the sea front in Blackpool, don't really venture into the town much.

I've been to the Sandcastle and the 3 piers, which are worth doing if you've never been there before. Also I'm not sure if it's still there, but there was a rock shop that you could go and watch rock being made.

poet123

Whitby is much nicer, Scarborough, is OK, a typical seaside town with all that brings with it in the UK.

martinthebandit

Another vote for Whitby here

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you'll love it or hate it ...simple .personally its great for a day out ... but not for a whole week ; whitby is lovely, on the grapevine cough cough blackpool has got a bit of a seedy reputation :D

p00hsticks

zenmaster wrote: »

There are trips to Morecambe and Southport which, frankly, sounds like more of the same.

I've not ruled it our completely but at the moment I'm inclined towards Whitby/Scarborough with trips to York and Eden Camp.

My vote would be with Whitby/Scarborough/York over Blackpool/Morecambe/Southport every time.