To not want to go on holiday to blackpool

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I think dh has lost his mind.

He reckons the dcs will love it?

Oh and I haven’t been up the tower for years but it’s definitely worth it.

It's nice for a day or a weekend.
We took the boys when they were teens, they had a fantastic time at Pleasure Beach. My Mum and I took Dd to the beach, she rode a donkey, played some funfair type games on the pier and went for afternoon tea. We actually had a lovely day. The beach was gorgeous, and we walked all the way along the promenade, watched the trams go by and then walked back to get the boys later.
Friends went last weekend, went up the tower, ate too much drank too much and had a fab time too.

BMW6 I do agree that it will be pretty chilly with the wind now, but you can wrap up! I love a beach any time of the year. And yeah, vomit not nice but wouldn't be out on the strip late at night with kids probably?Don't understand this, though where you have to pay just to walk on the beach
Beach is free?

Mumsnet in "lots of snobby posters" shocker

Depressing.

Blackpool is great for kids, think of them instead of your own preconceptions !!

If you get bored of all the ‘tat’ that Blackpool has to offer, Freeport at fleetwood is good for mooching round shops. Or you go to the lakes or Lancaster as PP suggested. The north west has loads to offer.

Great for kids? It's scruffy, dirty and rough.

Good be worse. He could have suggested a weekend in Stoke.

@PandorasXbox where would you recommend instead ?

It’s not that bad Pandora. It is a grim place at night time with all the tacky bars but during the day walking along the front is lovely.

Tell him to have fun and bring you all back some rock

Lol @cheeseandbiscuitsyum it wouldn’t be complete without a Kiss Me Quick hat

OP if this is between Blackpool and Whitby there is just no contest. Whitby for sure. Blackpool is absolutely grim.

'where would you recommend instead ?'

I hear the outer circle of hell is nice this time of year.

You don't have to pay to walk on the beach!

@Lelloteddy - at least it’ll be warm

Pay to walk on the beach WTF?? I just walked down the steps and put my feet on the sand.

I went to the 4 day punk music festival at the Winter Gardens in August. First time visiting Blackpool. I have never been anywhere so rough/run down. Possibly the only place in the world where a punk festival gentrifrys the area!

Pleasure Beach is fab, theatre, opera house, piers, but I wouldn't stay in Blackpool itself. Stay in St.Annes - check out St.Ives hotel, great family place.

I wouldn’t go this time of year mainly because it will be bloody freezing

So would OP's preferred choice of Whitby be! It's the UK, ffs.
As Basil Fawlty would most likely say - "what do you expect to see in a British seaside town? Sun dappled palm trees swaying majestically in the ocean breeze?!"

There's NOTHING "snobby" about not wanting to visit a coastal resort in autumn/winter, where you have to pay just to walk on the beach

I'm sorry, but WTAF are you on about?! You really, really don't have to pay to walk on the beach.

I live in a naice village 20 mins from Bpool! Trust me stay at Ribby Hall and drive into Bpool for the daytime visits that will make it enjoyable for you as well as the dcs

I too grew up in a council estate in an ex mining community in the 1980s and it's a step far too far for me.

The parts where the pubs/bars are are just like any inner city or town that has a nighscene

The seafront looks brilliant especially after the recent refurbishment- those slagging it off, when was the last time you visited?

Stanley Park is lovely

Wow. Soooo many people who are too up their own arses to put their aspirations aside and just have fun for a while!

Ok... sensibly, I wouldn't take children out at night in Blackpool, unless you are residing in a fairly civilised area of Blackpool. You really wouldn't want some 37 year old chucking up on their shoes whilst minding your own business.

BUT... it will/can be an experience. It may well be one you never wish to repeat, but you may be able to dine out on the story for a very long time! If you leave preconceptions behind when you shut your front door, you may well be pleasantly surprised. Or not.

On the other hand, Whitby is another experience, albeit of a different kind. Nicer, but less 'exciting' for kids...

It's 2/3 days. Where's the harm? How can you ever have an opinion on somewhere unless you've been? So, add to your world experience, and GO THERE!

did anybody mention Illuminasia? That's supposed to be ok. Closing forever at the end of October

www.illuminasia.co.uk/