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.

Uncle Brian is going to give me nightmares :(

Ooh lots of locals on here

Catgirl! I will meet you in Zest! I'm Blackpool born and bred and DC's father still there. I always stop off in Lytham for a browse and a vino when sans children...

Zest sounds like a plan!

Blackpool had a plan that would now just about be coming on stream and would have transformed the place and made it the best holiday resort in the country and probably a great place for all families and within time would have been hailed as a way to transform a dying old seaside town in to a major resort. Then BLAIR decided that the SUPER CASINO that in time in Blackpool would have resulted in 5 STAR HOTELS and massive development should go to " THE LABOUR ARSES MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL AS A THANK YOU" then the SANCTIMONIUS EGOTISTICAL MEGLOMANIC BROWN cancelled the whole SUPER CASINO IDEA. If Blackpool and the local council"s plan had been allowed to happen it would now be a world class resort. Unfortunatly the weather would not be guaranteed though.

YADNBU

We were going to go, but by dgf died so couldn't. A few years later we spent a night there, on the way back from somewhere because we wanted to see what ot was like. I was ill the whole time ,due to the fact i went to bed at 4am the night before, and behaved like a stroppy teen the entire time.

We stayed in a guest house where there was a calender in a random place, mum lifted it up find a hole due to someone punching the wall in.

The pleasure beach was ridiclously over priced and I have never been able to eat chip butties since.

We now say that by grandfathers passing was blessing in disguise because it meant that we didn't have to go blackpool that first time.

I am off to bed. Just think, in a few weeks Jason Donovan will be serenading outside my bedroom window and waking my toddler up. Stupid proms

I have thought of something good about Blackpool though

1. The West Coast Rock Cafe
2. Scrooges' Wine Bar
3. The World Fireworks Championships in September

Pretty sure that is all though.

What the flip?!

From Uncle Brian's guestbook...

"HI BRIAN,REMEMBER US JAMES & TOM,SOZ NOT BIN FOR AWHILE IVE BIN ILL WITH GUILLIAN BARREE SYNDROME BUT WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THIS SUMMER,YOU'LL REMEMBER TOM LIKES HIS ALE AND I LIKE MY FOOD,BUT IN 5YRS WE'VE CHANGED IVE GONE FATTER AND TOM'S STILL SEXY.LOVE JAMES."

Pity poor Helen Young who spent her honeymoon at Uncle Brian's

Ooh Scrooges. Many a time in my yoof I got pissed in there on blackcurrant wine .

I can't actually think of anything else. The Grand Theatre is quite nice, I like a mooch round Debenhams. That's about it.

Bollocks I'm going next week too. Staying at the Big Blue Hotel at the pleasure beach, only for one night though !

Flossie ignore them, you will have a grand time. Just take lots of brass for the Pleasure Beach and use St Anne's beach. You aren't far from that.

Flossie I have heard very nice things about the Big Blue

Just avoid the town center, you'll be fine

Righto anormalone. Thanks for the tip, sounds much more my style.

Ah Brenda at Scrooges. How she never lost her license for serving 15 year olds is beyond me.

Fond memories of telling West Coast Rock that it was my birthday every time I ate there. I even looked at having my wedding on the top floor there.

Ahh......fond memories :)

Strawberry wine at Scrooges and Fajitas at the West Coast

followed by the Tache or Jenks

Anyone remember the Palace, when it was Golden Wheels roller disco?

Or The Lobster Pot roller disco slash under 18's venue?

Or...best of all, the Sally Army's Fig Tree on a Friday night?

I was more of an Addisons girl

You are all forcing me to relive my night in Blackpool. But you know, there are some memories that are better repressed.

The food was terrible. The hotel was worse. The carousers were a bit loud and offputting and went on all night. The police helicopters and multiple sirens for someone who had decided to take a swim at 3.:30am (and who had got submerged) were not good. I learned from the hotel that he had survived.

Worst of all was my wake up call at 5:50am. I had not ordered a wake up call. The man outside my window who was retching and vomiting for England did not know this. Honestly it was as if he was in my room.

I wondered if I should call an ambulance, because he sounded seriously ill. Then I figured on the balance of probabilities that he was just pissed as a fart. I pulled the sad and motheaten duvet over my head, and counted the minutes until I could speed out of Blackpool.

Never again.

Or Rumours.....followed by onion bargis at Shalimar Gardens

Catgirl, we always ended up in Basil's on the Strand. No entrance fee and really good, cheesy disco music.

Irony lost on this Trip Advisor thicko

"Was shocked to find a half eaten sausage roll that was manky just on the floor under the widow in my room! Sink and shower was disgusting, was that bad I didn't dare wash. Then in the morning went down for breakfast and didn't dare drink coz the cups was filthy and all uncle brain was saying was racist jokes that was horrible! Keeping in mind there was a coloured couple at the next table, never ever will I be staying in this horrid bed and breakfast!!!"

Honda you are taking me back....Zowies?

Tanfastic, I could pm you some stuff about Shalimar Gardens. It would make your stomach curdle. So maybe best not then??