Husband isn't happy I have booked a weekend in Blackpool...

[ringsingling]

Next weekend he said he fancied going away in the UK for two nights.
I asked him where he fancied and he's words were "I don't care ,just a nice break with you "
We haven't been away since July when we went to Cyprus so thought a little trip was a nice idea.
I looked at Edinburgh and hotels were so overpriced
Found a b&b in Blackpool for £130 for two nights with breakfast.
Reviews said it was nice.
Obviously it's a no frills b&b but I don't care.

I used to go to Blackpool every year with my mum and she passed away when I was 13 (now I'm 30) and honestly it was the place with all my happy memories.
I know the back is run down now but I thought it would be nice.
I found a couple of nice bars -bloom bar and beach club or beach bar.

Anyway told husband and he isn't happy
He said he didn't mind ...then I book and he's miserable

Is it that bad now ?
I just thought a couple of cheesy days
Maybe do madam tuzaards,the tower etc
I just want to go to remember my mum too,walk past the hotel we used to stay at.
It's still open

Blackpool is a beautiful town with magnificent seaside views that are probably the best the Fylde coast has to offer.

Better views if you go a bit further up the coast to Morecambe though.

And more chance there of seeing eider ducks which has to be a win.

@Alltheprettyseahorses Its not “for some reason’..people are being very open about their experiences !!!

You have to approach Blackpool with the right attitude - and stick to the better parts - and you can have a fun time. Being there with the illuminations is the perfect time to do a weekend. Embrace the kitsch!

Last time I was there I was it was because I was visiting someone having major surgery at the hospital in Blackpool and wanted to visit a few days in a row. It was absolutely pouring down for three days but I still weirdly enjoyed it - there was something sweetly nostalgic about eating fish&chips huddled under one of those little shelters on the promenade while being battered by the wind!

You could technically argue that he said he didn't care where you went, but it's usually implicit that you wouldn't pick somewhere famous for being a dump. Like if I said to my husband I was happy to go anywhere in Europe on a city break, I wouldn't be expecting Chernobyl or the roughest banlieu in Paris.

Surely by this stage in your relationship you’d know if he was the sort of person who would enjoy Blackpool, or not? I know it would be my DH’s worst nightmare so I wouldn’t even consider it, even if he did say ‘I don’t care where we go’. Did you think he’d like it OP?

I don't think it's a place for a idiilic romantic couple get away.
I used to go for piss ups with the girls, hen do's & dirty weekends my bf at the time! Used to stay in really cheap b&b's. I remember in one there were pubes left over in the shower 🤢
However I also stayed at a really nice massive hotel (might have been the Hilton, not sure). So accommodation is really important I'd say, that can make or break your weekend away.
I can understand his disappointment.
It has a stigma to it that will never shift, like Benidorm.

Since he said he didn’t mind he’s got no right to be a grump about it. I’d go to the pleasure beach and the tower. Enjoy the illuminations. Then the next day leave early and head somewhere pretty on the way home.

Well as he wasn't bothered I didn't think he would mind tbh
I've had loads of little trips with him just for him
He has had me doing the Man U stadium tour and staying in hotel football class of 92 (I think ) room when I don't like football
Went to London to see a rugby match (no clue what was happening )

I like to think it's a compromise 🤣

Then it's your turn to have something you like.

Oh come off it. People are posting that Blackpool is a dump, because they think it’s a dump. I’ve never been so have no idea if it’s a dump or not, but I’m assuming these people have been, and they thought it was a dump.

I got the impression that Blackpool was a dump from certain things but went myself and loved it, clean big beaches and plenty to do. It proved to me to always make my own mind up

If this was somewhere else everyone would be saying he should suck it up because he said he didn't care where they were going 🤷🏻‍♀️

Blackpool is pretty rundown in places it's true, but DP and I had a fab time when we went. A trip really is what you make it. And I thoroughly recommend a bar called Dirty Blondes

With that update, YANBU.

Do your nostalgic Blackpool thing, then maybe head down the road to Lytham?

@GutsyPoet we used to go to Stanley park every holiday
There used to be boats for hire
We loved that

@GutsyPoet we are coming from Newcastle
I thought we could go the lakes way and maybe take a pit stop in Kendal for some food on the way

I'm with your husband.

All the lovely places you could go for the weekend and you chose Blackpool, and a B&B.

He said he didn't care...

It will be fun and the other ideas are lovely

He'll come round when you go

You missed the part about the memories it holds for her?

Op is there literally nowhere nicer in the entire UK you could think of to visit other than Blackpool?

You said Edinburgh or Blackpool as if they were your only choices... what about Cambridge, Rye. Dorset, the Isle of Wight, plucking random examples out of the air?

No I get that, but her husband hasn't got those memories and thought he was getting a chilled weekend away with his wife, not a holiday to recreate trips she had with her mother.