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.

i love Blackpool
we live about 50mins drive away, so we get there early, and pack up at about three-ish before the stag parties and sex workers take over.

everyone raves about Southport but as an incomer I can't get my head around a seaside resort with no actual sea.

Mind you, I grew up in North Kent, not too far from Margate, so as far as seaside towns go, the bar was not set that high...

The stag parties and sex workers were in 24 hour operation when I was last there

Ah Twatters - your fondness for the old place just shines through.

I had to go there a few years back to attend an event that one of the offspring competed in. DH and I had an absolute ironic riot.

My chest hurt from laughing so much. Highlights included:

The Doctor Who Illumination above the Prom - David Tennant looked more like Julian Clary

The Waxworks - there was what looked like a shop dummy in a white suit, with a Mexican bandit hat and moustache, that was supposed to be Johnny Depp

A cafe called Birdy Num Nums

The superb array of shite souvenirs

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We always swore we'd go back. Somehow just have not got around to it.

Wayne Rooney in Blackpool Waxworks

When I was 19 (a million years ago) I went on a girls' w'end there. Went to have my fortune told by a gypsy who had a fag hanging from her lip. She was famous apparently - read all the palms of the Corrie gang. She insightfully told me I would receive a brown envelope in the post, beware of a woman with blonde hair & I would have an "even" amount of children but more than 2. Eek!

Blackpool is great if you like to see women stumble down the promenade with dildos tied around their necks!

It used to be great but is ruined by the strip clubs, seedy items for sale in full view of children, stag and hen groups. Not a family place now. If they got rid of that element it could be good.

Aqua, that's the Steeplechase!

I want to go to Blackpool Pleasure beach right now.

My husband hates the tackiness, but I've been for the weekend a couple of times with the kids and we had a great time. We went in the autumn at illuminations time though so minimal beaching. The trams, the tower, the 2p slot machines, the Dr Who museum the illuminations. It's a great way to spend a November weekend. Yes you eat crap holiday food but that's OK occasionally. Blackpool tower is a wonderful place.
I hope the Dr Who museum is still there. It was better than the cardiff one.
We went there as kids and loved the House of Fun, sad that burned down as it had excellent slides.

We used to go every year to the pleasure beach and illuminations and as a kid I thought it was fab. I had the misfortune to go there on a hen do in June and it doesn't have the same appeal any more

grew up there, went to school there. Just down the road in Cleveleys, the town where people go to wait to die!
Depressing, awful, deprived place.
Poulton, Lytham, St.Annes are lovely though.

I am howling at Uncle Brian's tripadvisor reviews!

Wtf

17 Wednesday July 4, 2007 - 07:08pm

hi bri,i have never been to a hotel that cum's forth! infact it was a close aquaintance that did and said you were indead the perfect host with a hose.
i'd like to thank you for looking after my friend so well and hope he cums your way soon and will continue to do so

Talcy, isn't the Blackpool waxworks called Louis Two Swords or summat?! I remember going when I was 4 and crying all the way round.

My mother also has a picture of my crying on The Mad Mouse ride, aged 4.

Loving the reviews on Uncle Brian's guestbook.
Where else can you get a pint of vodka at 5am, champane and a great breckfust all from £14pppn

Just saw the Dr Who exhibition closed in 2009, hadn't realised it was that long since i last went. Sad.

I'm at that Brian link.

It's the opposite of an advert.

The Brian link is hilarious!

Look at one of the visitors feedback...

^Bless Uncle Brian, a real hero and a gentleman. Nothing
was too much trouble, when we wanted a pint of vodka at
5:00am Brian woke up with a gentle call of his name and
nudge with the mop handle. When we wanted to play
jungle music at 2:00am after the pubs shut, Brian would
come in and dance. Massive breakfast, never seen so
many sausages, which me and the lads scoffed down
before hitting the pubs. Uncle Brian treated us like
real nephews even though two of us were women^

"Uncle Brian treated us like
real nephews even though two of us were women"

Actually LOLing!

I live in Blackpool , I went to the beach the other day with my Ds while waiting for my Dp to finish work & it would of been nice if the tourists had taken all their sodding rubbish home instead of using the beach as a giant bin , will be sticking with going to the beach at Gynn Square as the tourists never go to that part !
The council are making improvements finally , but the improvements aren't for the tourists its for us who live here .
Oh & id say around 90% of the druggies etc are all out of towners chucked out of their own home town & told to come here as the rent is cheap .
Its the Tourists that make the mess & don't know how to act/behave appropriately .
I could never live anywhere else though as like somebody else said their is always something to do with my Ds