When people go there on holiday I just think why....

People are allowed to have opinions and thoughts and make observations.

No-one is saying YOU are a bad person.

Where I live is often in the worst or most depressing places to live lists.

It’s a bit of a shite hole so yeah.

Not going to go around calling people names for stating the obvious 🤣

Hmm. Bit harsh, if you’ve lived there a long time you’d surely know it is very run down now compared to its hay day, it was never high end, but it certainly didn’t have the boarded up places, the visible drugs, and anti social behaviour it does now, all smeared with a veneer of run down deprivation.

it used to be cheap,cheerful, bustling atmosphere , a popular place to go filled with lots of people, kiss me quick hats and sticks of rock, I’m not sure if makes someone a cunt to say it. It’s hardly a secret.

I like going to Blackpool as it reminds me of
my parents and grandparents.

But it's been used as a dumping ground and has been neglected for many years.

I think that only a cunt goes onto a forum and slags off a place where other people live, knowing full well that some of them will be on the thread.

I went there to see a show a few months ago.

Yes it is tacky in places, yes it has some questionable criminality and dodgy people.

However! The beach is gorgeous. We didn't encounter anyone who was anything but pleasant, the worst things we saw was people on hen/stag dos who were a bit drunk and loud. I just found it quite funny, didn't bother me at all.

We stayed in a little B&B in the gay quarter. The hosts were fabulous, absolutely could not do enough for us. I can't remember how much it was but it was cheap, and for what we got was more than reasonable. It was never going to be luxurious but we had a lovely bed, more than perfectly pleasant room, tea coffee etc and breakfast was fantastic. I have stayed in lots of very 'naice' places. Just saw this as a different type of break, basic in comparison but fab in its own way.

I saw a seagull eating a shitty nappy on Central drive once.

An image that is burnt into my memory.

YOU ARE WELCOME.

We went 24 years ago and it was awful then! I dead to think what it’s like now. We escaped the the Broads and Southwold on the way home.

I love the NW, but one visit to Blackpool was more than enough!

I live close to a very similar seaside resort in the south and I also think why would anybody want to holiday here. Maybe familiarity breeds contempt.

I guess it's matter if perspective and what you're comfortable with..

I hate the place, bleak, depressing, cold, tacky, noisy, deprived, shabby. It has some nice ish places to visit like aquarium or swimming pools or theatre, but you can get those in other nicer places where you don't have to skirt past drunk people, walk past beggars, witness violence, drugs related activities, people shouting and screaming, seeing small bairns being pushed along with baby bottles full of Fanta whilst their father shouts at a 4 year old old to "shut the fuck up ya little shithead", while a hen party squawks along and some lads start a fight, all to the tune of a wailing siren of a few police cars attending some incident.

In fairness, the people are friendly when they're not being dickheads, some of the buildings you can tell were incredible in their hey day. It's just a typical deprived seaside town.

A lot of people have only been as kids and you don't notice terrible stuff, just remember that it's super fun place full of candyfloss, rides, beaches and arcades etc. so they have rose tinted memories I think!

Wowser! Is it that bad?!…

But the NW is huge. Sime beautiful countryside. The N W is nit just Blackpool. Anyhow lots of people love Blackpool. Everyone is different.
I might wonder why anyone goes to Benidorm!But it is hugely popular. One mans poison is another man's.......,as the saying goes.

Yeah try summer. 🤣

I went there on holiday and stayed in a very nice B&B. The water park and the pleasure beach were both brilliant. We went to the circus which was okay. And we went shopping and to some cheap and cheerful restaurants. It was absolutely fine. V tacky and a bit run down but we still had a great time.

@Tableforjoan I did not see any sign of "the homeless, druggies and hookers operating freely and openly. Puking in the streets like its freshers week " over our New Year's break. I think you must have just been extraordinarily unlucky.

I always say the easier a place is to get to via public transport the worse it is to visit.

If you’ve got to drive and then treck a bit it’s going to be a lovely clean beach without hens and stags and won’t stink of weed. But there also won’t be arcades and fair grounds. If you can get a coach trip or a train right into the centre it’s going to be more wild and typical.

But then there is wild and wowzers wild.
Skeggy and black pool both have hens, stags and weed as does Brighton and other sea sidey places.

Blackpool however you’ve got the homeless, druggies and hookers operating freely and openly. Puking in the streets like its freshers week from the one visit I did have without having children with me. It’s a very deprived sea side town.

See, that's just so demeaning to people who like it. My adult daughter who has special needs loves it. She likes the lights, the food is stuff she will certainly, the promenade is very wide so she doesn't feel crowded like in places like Brighton. She likes the merlin attractions and the pleasure beach. She loves the ice dance show and the mini golf, the zoo and Stanley Park. No one looks down on her or makes fun of her.

And I'm happy to take her.

All depends on what you want & your tastes.
According to one of the girls at my local pub, the north west has some of England best dogging sites ...
And from what I've been told - and stuff she's said to us - she's the type to know first hand ... eek

I live in the nw and genuinely love walking the front at Blackpool (prom side, NOT the shops side), we start at 1 end, play on the piers as we go, chips at the end then womble back. Would be hideous to go on holiday there though

Thanks ☺️

@tinytemper66 next time you are in Chester I would recommend an excursion to see Anthony Gormley's sculpture installation "Another Place" It is at Crosby Beach, near Liverpool, and well worth the visit. It took my breath away.

I have never been to Blackpool. The furthest NW I have ever been is Chester!

I have taken my adult daughter, who has a learning disability, to Blackpool in the early summer several times (not English school holidays but there are always Scottish families around). We always stay at the Imperial. Faded grandeur for sure but it works for us.

I think my daughter feels at home in Blackpool as everything is so accessible for her. She loves the Mme Tussauds for example, with its Strictly, I'm A Celeb stuff for example - the London one is full of international stars she doesn't know. The Pleasure Beach is great if you like roller coasters (she does).

We have never been bothered by karaoke at the hotel. We always go Mon to Thurs - durect train from Euston - so aren't around for the hen and stag parties.

I think I have had a different Blackpool experience, and i wanted to share our experience in a positive light. We ended up going to Blackpool last September as my adult DS (SEN) had made an online purchase that was collection only...!! DH, adult DD, DS and I stayed overnight in the Imperial Hotel and ended up at the wonderful kite festival in Lytham St Annes. We all liked it so much we decided to spend 5 nights over New Years at the Imperial. We had the 2 bedroom Royal Suite (where the Beatles and many other famous people have stayed) which has panoramic views of the Irish sea. The staff were simply wonderful and even put a Christmas tree in the sitting room. It was obviously an incredibly grand hotel in its hey day and many original features are untouched. They are currently allowing archeological work on the original Turkish baths housed in the basement, and we were allowed a peek. We also had a good look at the room Churchill used when Blackpool was his North west base when he addressed party conferences. I have a photo of DS pretending to smoke a cigar in the chair Churchill sat in! Then on New Years Eve there were Scottish bagpipes and a rather glamorous black tie dinner.
We took a vintage tram ride to see the illuminations along the Fylde coast and chatted to the volunteer conductor and driver who help to keep these amazing vehicles running. As we had a car, we used the hotel as a base to explore the surrounding area and further up into the Lake District. We did not go to the amusements in Blackpool, so I cannot really comment on them, although we did have some fun on the pier at Lytham St Annes. In Blackpool itself we admired the aging Victorian architecture - the tile work on the Winter gardens is something to behold - and had afternoon tea in the ballroom of Blackpool Tower, imagining we were on Strictly!
I do not think we would return in the summer, as it is my understanding that even the hotel we stayed in is a little different in the summer months with karaoke and nightly performances which are not really our cup of tea, but I certainly would return in the winter, as we found it rather magical. The only disapointment in Blackpool was the one time we had fish and chips. Apparently they are meant to be soggy... Fortunately there are plenty of other places along the coast who serve crispy chips!

You'd have to pay me to go to Blackpool. About ten grand should do it.