blackpool any deals please

bindiboo

hi thinking of going to blackpool for a couple of nights week commencing 23 july 2007. Need hotel accomodation for 2 adults and 3 kids. kids aged 11,11 and 7. would like a nice room that would either accomodate all of us or are connecting and breakfast included.

would need to be really near to all the attractions and have parking.

can anyone help


thanks

Nenen

Hi
we went to Blackpool during half term and stayed in The Carousel Hotel (Blackpool). 663-671 New South Promenade, Blackpool, FY4 1RN

We booked it through laterooms.co.uk (I've just checked and they have vacancies for the week you want) but you can see the hotel's own website here:
http://www.blackpool-carousel-hotel.com/

They do several different offers including B&B or dinner B&B which are really good value (£84 per night DB&B for a whole family of 4)! The laterooms website only goes up to a family of 4 but it is worth you ringing the hotel and asking if they could squeeze another one in or give you 2 adjoining rooms (although 2 adjoining rooms appear to work out almost twice the price). Maybe if you quote the laterooms price they will do you a special deal.

We found it clean and comfortable (although the first room we were shown to was a bit small and didn't have a sea view as requested) however, we rang reception and they were very pleasant and moved us immediately to a lovely room complete with sea view. The buffet breakfasts were excellent and the evening meal (included in some deals or you could pay £17 per head as an optional extra) was very good value for money in the deal (not cordon blue but nicely presented and mostly freshly prepared) ... three courses plus coffee with about 3-4 choices for each course; e.g. starters like homemade soup, melon with parma ham, avacado with prawn; main meals like poached salmon in cream and tarragon sauce, peppered sirloin steak in mushroom sauce, something chickeny (can't remember what it was:D) or vegetarian option; lovely puds too! Don't know if they had special children's meals as we didn't take ours (they're a bit too old now)!
It was a little way out of the main drag of the town but the tram stop is just opposite and you can get a daily hop on/off pass. They have free parking there too. We liked being a little further out as it is quieter at night and the beach (right opposite the hotel but with a main road running in between) is less busy and absolutely gorgeous!
The only pain was the lifts were absolutely minute (2 people and a suitcase were a squash) and often not working... so as long as you're not bothered by a couple of flights of stairs you should be fine! Some of the staff were a bit young and inexperienced so it's not 5* service but all were very pleasant when we went.

If you go to Blackpool Tower (we did... just had to do the whole Balckpool experience) make sure you go fairly early and make a day of it as it is expensive (around £12 for adults if I remember rightly) so only worth it if you stay for the day and do all the things going! Alternatively, if you go after 7pm (or thereabouts) you can get a reduced entrance fee but then several of the attractions have finished (or had when we were there).

Hope this helps and have a great time!

PS My dh had a haircut and beard trim while he was there... cheapest he's paid for years and done brilliantly too... so if you have boys in need of a trim would be worth having it done there.... every penny helps:D !