Blackpool-Resort

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Can't you come off the sauce for a couple of days?

You try taking a teenager away for the weekend!

[Mr Soul '68]

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My youngest daughter is into roller coasters and wants to try the one in Blackpool. I've never stayed in Blackpool, but what's it like in the evening for families, just doing the basic things like strolling about and getting some food?

I've heard some horror stories about drunkenness and loutish behaviour (although i can deal with that in small doses) but would any of you lot take your missus and kid up for a weekend? we're not drinking orientated, just like a walk, browse and a bit of food. Thoughts appreciated.

It's chav central. Took my daughter there for the evening when she was in Uni. Never again. Gang after gang of chavvies, and not just teenage chavvies either, dad chavs and grampy chav gangs too. The worst seaside resort I have visited in the UK without a shadow of doubt.

[fugsyphil]

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Travellodge by bloomfield Road is fine and the pleasure Beach is fairly nearby in the opposite direction to the main drinking areas. I took my 2 teens who were 12 & 14 and we had a much better time than I feared.

Stick to the piers side of the road and you barely pass a pub. Cross over to the other side once you've decided if she likes it or not.

Wouldn't go often but as a one off trip for roller coasters she should be plenty happy

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It's chav central. Took my daughter there for the evening when she was in Uni. Never again. Gang after gang of chavvies, and not just teenage chavvies either, dad chavs and grampy chav gangs too. The worst seaside resort I have visited in the UK without a shadow of doubt.

Grampy chav gangs just made me spit out my coffee with laughter. Absolute quality!

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Travellodge by bloomfield Road is fine and the pleasure Beach is fairly nearby in the opposite direction to the main drinking areas. I took my 2 teens who were 12 & 14 and we had a much better time than I feared.

Stick to the piers side of the road and you barely pass a pub. Cross over to the other side once you've decided if she likes it or not.

Wouldn't go often but as a one off trip for roller coasters she should be plenty happy

Great advice and first hand experience with teenagers. Thanks, the hotel attached to the football stadium sounds good.

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Aside from going there once or twice to watch the City, I went to Blackpool a few years ago on a sports tour. It was one of the worst places I've stayed in this country. Run down, boarded up shops...just not a great area with a real sense of desolation about the place. Being kind, I suppose you could say it's not what it was in its heyday, much like a lot of the classic British seaside towns. But personally speaking, I wouldn't return - but probably worth noting I'm 35 and don't have kids.

Having said that, the area around Stanley Park was actually alright, but that's about 2.5 miles away from the seafront. If you want to stay in Blackpool I'd personally avoid staying around the seafront for the reasons I've mentioned above.

I've not been there but as others have said here, from what I understand Lytham St Annes, just down the road, is a far nicer place.

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It used to be havoc when we went up there

Burnley away promotion game from the old fourth division , bedlam

Bury away relegation , even worse

Last time I went up there a coach of Middlesborough and our lot were scrapping as soon as we arrived

Jagged thistle is a good pub mind

Scottish female darts teams on tour

[life on mars]

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Stay in Lytham St Annes 2 miles out from Blackpool, its Yin to neighbour Blackpool's yang, its posh though has four golf courses , very impressive area .

[splott parker]

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Went every year, second weekend of October (the City against Blackpool sometimes coincided with that weekend), with a great crowd from St Albans & Bridgend Street, from about 1977 until 2000. Great times, until the place got too greedy and complacent, it became rundown without any sign of upgrading yet they expected people like us to turn up year in year out. It turned out to be cheaper to hit Benidorm Thursday to Tuesday instead of Blackpool Friday to Monday, and throw in the sunshine it became a no brainer. We got to meet the same bunches of people given that we went the same time every year and it was no surprise that we were bumping into them in Benidorm, as they had the same outlook as us. Sadly pre pandemic Benidorm slipped into making the same mistake as Blackpool and was gradually going downhill. Nevertheless I’m going up to Blackpool for a Northern Soul weekend in a few weeks, back for a day or two and then off to Benidorm, so I can do a right Judith Chalmers on how both resorts currently are. My reviews will be revealed on here during and after both trips, if Benidorm goes ahead.

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Went every year, second weekend of October (the City against Blackpool sometimes coincided with that weekend), with a great crowd from St Albans & Bridgend Street, from about 1977 until 2000. Great times, until the place got too greedy and complacent, it became rundown without any sign of upgrading yet they expected people like us to turn up year in year out. It turned out to be cheaper to hit Benidorm Thursday to Tuesday instead of Blackpool Friday to Monday, and throw in the sunshine it became a no brainer. We got to meet the same bunches of people given that we went the same time every year and it was no surprise that we were bumping into them in Benidorm, as they had the same outlook as us. Sadly pre pandemic Benidorm slipped into making the same mistake as Blackpool and was gradually going downhill. Nevertheless I’m going up to Blackpool for a Northern Soul weekend in a few weeks, back for a day or two and then off to Benidorm, so I can do a right Judith Chalmers on how both resorts currently are. My reviews will be revealed on here during and after both trips, if Benidorm goes ahead.

Can they be with paragraphs please.

It's hard to read "one big splodge"

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Can they be with paragraphs please.

It's hard to read "one big splodge"

Splodge Parker says ‘Get your eyes tested’

[Mr Soul '68]

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Grampy chav gangs just made me spit out my coffee with laughter. Absolute quality!

Glad I made you laugh matey, but I think you know what I mean. Groups of blokes in the 50s and 60s pissed up and staggering everywhere, being extremely loud rude, crude and obnoxious. It's bad enough when boys in their late teens and early 20s behave like this, but blokes of a certain age should know far better. Sadly, Blackpool seems to attract this kind of person. Well it did the evening we were there, and this was September. I dread to think what it is like during July and August

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It's chav central. Took my daughter there for the evening when she was in Uni. Never again. Gang after gang of chavvies, and not just teenage chavvies either, dad chavs and grampy chav gangs too. The worst seaside resort I have visited in the UK without a shadow of doubt.

this.
Surely there are better places to take your kids?
Black pool is simply awful.

[RonnieBird]

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If Warnock was in charge at Blackpool, i might still have got the chance to see Sir Stanley, plying his trade out wide

I’ve told the story here before of how I travelled by train as a small kid on my own with sandwiches to see Sir Stan play in Blackpool.
Different world now - so sad.

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I’ve told the story here before of how I travelled by train as a small kid on my own with sandwiches to see Sir Stan play in Blackpool.
Different world now - so sad.

I visited the old Bloomfield Rd, before it was redeveloped. Behind the goal with that steep terracing. 93 i think it was. We lost, again. I can remember a young fullback making his City debut, Ian Jones i think was the name-Merthyr lad? I don't think that we saw him again. Anyone remember him?