To think Blackpool is a bit shit

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Just came back from Blackpool and it was utter shit. Why haven't the council there made improvements and made it a decent place to visit?

There is hardly anywhere halfway reasonable to eat, it looks completely broken and unloved. There is just so much potential for development and it could be the "Orlando" of England. Instead, it's just shite.

I've come away thinking I don't need to take my children to Africa to appreciate what they've got: just take them to Blackpool.

On a good note, the beach is very nice. Shame about the drunks weeing all over the stairs to the beach and leaving beer cans everywhere. I saw broken Britain in Blackpool and I shall never go back again.

has anyone mentioned gods waiting room, aka Cleveleys, one of the most depressing places on earth?

EDUCATING MARMALADE! Hoylake has a fantastic views and is a very desirable place to live.

I'm scared now after reading this thread!!!
We are going for a week very soon, staying in burbage holiday lodge in bisham, the apartments seem lovely, but just worried about what my kids might see in the center!!

I love Blackpool. Eclectic, surreal, and authentically retro. I love the contradictions: an old fashioned gypsy fortune teller operating out of a concrete bunker attached to the mall. It's really friendly and laid back. The beach is awesome. Extremely cheap accommodation! The tower is ace, so is the rollercoaster.

I seem to remember family hols in Blackpool eleventy million years ago where we got soaked on the log flume, saw 'big names' at the pier theatre, ate in a 'sizzlin' restaurant and as I was very little got to see sooty at the theatre, I seem to recall getting a balloon and leaving it under the bed in the family room arf of the b&b we stayed in and crying all the way home. the illuminations and the lit up trams were fab

YouStayClassySanDiego crikey, the Norbreck! dh when we first met was a union rep and went all over to conferences, he went to one in Blackpool and they were in the Norbreck castle, we were newly met and in lurvvve so he said i could go with him for the weekend. we got there and taxi driver offered to wait for us as he said he had so many people turn round and come back out again . we declined (poor and bill was paid for by union) downstairs the place looked rather nice if a bit faded grandeur but the higher it got the mankier it was, the room we ended up in was like a student bedsit in grottier times and we passed a whole section that had obviously been burnt down. the taxi driver who dropped us back after our night out joked that 'ah well if you want a lift at any time give us a call' as apparently the owner had been trying to burn the place down to claim the insurance for months. we laughed but that very night the joining wing was evacuated cos of a fire we complained and were offered a free weekend there at our choosing..... we declined

"We nearly ran Goebbels over on a pedestrian crossing. DH had to slam on sharpish and the guy just carried on, imperious and oblivious. Exactly how a senior member of the Nazi party would cross a road, I imagine"

This is why I love Mumsnet.

I agree with whoever said St Anne's is less pretentious for a night out than Lytham. I love a night out in St Annes, has some great restaurants.

Cleveleys is full of pensioners but the prom is really nice with a great cinema on the prom. I often take ds for a walk along Cleveleys front. It's very civilised with a few dog walkers and cyclists (no undesirables or pissheads/shaggers).

Cleveleys makes me nervous, I have never seen so many little old people in one place. I am 5'7 and feel like a giant, I can see over the top of their little white heads as they move at random up and down the high street. Does anyone remember learning about "Brownian Motion" at school, well that's what it looks like from my vantage point!

It can take your whole lunch hour to but a sandwich in Tesco because everyone in the queue has 1 item, tries to chat to the cashier, looks surprised when asked for money, rummages through bags/pockets, etc.

YABU. It is what it is. Exactly what it says on the tin. Complete trashy, cheesy, seaside fun. If it's not your cup of tea, go somewhere else. CentreParcs?

Erm, I think you're missing the point HugAMoo.

Most people who've been will be going somewhere else, in future.

Excellent! Off you toddle, then! Enjoy

Oh God.

YOU were the woman in the Kiss Me Quick hat on the prom, weren't you? Don't take it personally, love. I'm sure that Blackpool has it's charms. Like being able to get someone to perform a sex act on you at any given moment

Oh NO, you've got me! Don't knock it till you've tried it though!

OP, You are not at all unreasonable, Blackpool is UTTER SHITE now and full of the chavviest people.

Both DH and I were born there and have family still in the vicinity so we visit the area several times a year. The town centre is utterly horrible. My kids (southerners) always ask me why everyone is fat in Blackpool (and they have a point). The Norbreck is a hell hole....

TImidviper, if you think Cleveleys is full of old people, take a quick trip up the coast to Morecambe...

yeah, complete trashy, cheesy, drug taking, public shagging, filthy, street sleeping, hooker ridden, noisy, filthy, gutter puking, knob waving, hen & stag partying, seaside fun.
Are you the demographic?

I have tried it! And written a detailed account of it above!

Unless you are talking about daytime public oral sex on Blackpool Prom in which case I have not tried or liked it!

Oh the latter, dear! Wait...no, just re-read the original comment, wasn't me. I'm pretty sure there were 3 guys, not 2.

Don't tell me Tiggis is still there? The sheer delight of going to Tiggis in the late 80's and being on a table near to Ian Botham or Les Dawson, it was the most fun you could have in St Annes at the time. That or fishing in the rock pools.

yeah, complete trashy, cheesy, drug taking, public shagging, filthy, street sleeping, hooker ridden, noisy, filthy, gutter puking, knob waving, hen & stag partying, seaside fun.
Are you the demographic?

annabelle do untwist your knickers, you'll give yourself a hernia!

I might send my mil to Uncle Brian's as a birthday surprise, but I might be being unfair on him.