Blackpool

[AutumnOrange]

11 of us booked months to go to Blackpool next weekend. We obviously took the risk not knowing where we would be come Autumn.
B&B booked. Party can separate easily into 6 and 5. According to what I have read the lockdown is just for residents but tourist places still open. Train already booked. Everyone really looking forward to it and still wants to go. I am swinging towards not going. It doesn’t sit right. Wwyd?

I wouldn't go but that has as much to do with Blackpool as it does with Covid, I think it'd be nigh on impossible to do social distancing if you are walking down the front.

I wouldn’t go. Could you ask the hotel if they’d honour your booking in the spring?

Be honest, you’ve booked as a group of 11- are you really going to stick to 5 and 6?!

I think if it doesn’t sit right, you have your answer. Are the train tickets and reservation refundable?

I wouldn't go if I was you.

This was linked on another thread and may help.

www.gov.uk/guidance/guidance-on-holidays-in-areas-with-local-coronavirus-covid-19-restrictions

If you are going to a place in a local lockdown it basically advises not staying in shared rooms if you are not from the same household. And not socialising indoors.
Postponing is probably the best course of action. Blackpool is currently high-risk.

We're booked on the Haven site at October half term, and I'm also having the same quandary. Obviously I won't be going out partying but I will be travelling to an area which is high risk. My partner goes annually to Blackpool and he's cancelled as you have to book everywhere, there would have been 14 of them so it would have meant splitting the group, and they didn't want to be back at the hotel for 10. For a girls day out I think you'll find it incredibly hard going if you don't book all your tables in advance. I'm still on the fence with our half term family holiday.

The city of a thousand dreams

We went for a night in August. It was heaving. The pleasure beach was as busy as I have seen it and socially distanced queuing was not happening. There were a lot of people not wearing masks at the pleasure beach and our hotel. I was uneasy. I wouldn't want to go now infection rates are higher. I felt sorry for the staff. I bet you would not be the only large group there anyway.

Blackpool is in a local lockdown. The police won’t know if you’re locals or residents. We were in a town much smaller and less touristy but close to Blackpool for a meal out last night and there were police everywhere. I’m sure there’ll be more in Blackpool. It’s also heaving and you’ll have to try to book adjacent tables wherever you go including pubs. I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to meet up with anyone that’s not in your household in public as well as in a home but that seems to be being widely ignored based on what I saw last night.