Vacation ideas

Blackpool is an immensely popular seaside resort on the English North West coast, which is amazingly popular with visitors from the nearby cities which include Warrington, Liverpool, Warrington and more. The town is also deeply popular with Scottish visitors who often arrive in large numbers in a similar fashion to the groups of factory workers of old on their factory holiday. Sometimes it would appear that the resort is awash with hotels and visitor attractions and although there is a large amount of bed and breakfast accommodation in Blackpool it is advisable to book reservations early to avoid upset. Accommodation varies from the cheerful and cheap to total luxury. Many are situated on the sea front alternatively, if you would prefer book somewhere far less lively there are some further inland.

Blackpool began to see its first visitors in the 18th century who had visited to enjoy the new fashion of sea bathing. With the advent of the railway, in 1846, Blackpool saw more and more tourists arriving to “take the cure” as it was called. These days visitors can get to Blackpool by air, road or rail arriving there much faster than the Victorian workers who would take as long as 48 hrs from as close by as Manchester.

The Famous Blackpool Pleasure Beach

The main attraction in the resort, in Lancashire in the north west of England, which brings in approximately seven million customers per annum, is Blackpool Pleasure Beach. The Pleasure Beach is a funfair of enormous size with breath taking big rides, for example Valhalla, Ice Blast, Grand National, the Big One, Wild Mouse and Zipper Dipper, and including many, many more sideshows, thrill rides, food booths, children’s rides, sidestalls and games. The most recently added addition is Infusion, the first ever to be a coaster of suspended loops entirely over water.

 A handy tip: If you are visiting as a family group you can make considerable savings by buying an unlimited ride wristband especially if you will be going on as many rides as possible because individual prices soon begins to add up.

Getting To Blackpool And Accommodation 

Blackpool is, as mentioned earlier, very easy to get to nowadays as it is possible to travel to the resort by automobile, aeroplane or railway . Traveling by rail you will, more than likely, arrive at Blackpool’s main rail station, which is called Blackpool North found on Talbot Road. A few minutes away, just a bit further down Talbot Road is Blackpool National Express Coach Station, the main coach station. The other train station, Blackpool South, is at Waterloo Road, which is much closer to the Pleasure Beach. Blackpool’s airport is situated about 2 miles south of the centre of town and was previously called, Blackpool Squires Gate Airport, one of the United Kingdom’s oldest airports.

Bed and breakfast accommodation in Blackpool is generally priced fairly low. Rooms are cheaper off season but a little more expensive on Saturday and Sunday. Blackpool hotels are at their most costly at the time of the Blackpool Illuminations, which is really Blackpool’s peak season.

Please remember: Some hotels can be rather noisy especially those found near to Central and North Pier. If you require somewhere less busy take a look past the North Pier.