When people go there on holiday I just think why....

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Am I missing something? I live in the NW and don't think I could ever go there on holiday. I'm low income so can't afford a lot with a toddler but I don't know why there is an attraction.

Ainu?

One of my teens says the same about Edinburgh, our home town!
People often don’t appreciate what they have.
Not that I’m saying you necessarily should appreciate it, OP. You feel how you feel and that’s fine! But often when something is so familiar to us, we just don’t see it as others do.

Blackpool has lots of family attractions for young ones. The Lake District is gorgeous. Blackburn and Wigan have attractions for children. Martin Mere is amazing if they like birds.
And that's without really thinking or googling anything.

Our experience of Blackpool was nothing like this.

Lytham St Anne's is probably my dream holiday home destination once I have a few more million to spend.

blackpool has become very run down now since its hey day. It was cheap and cheerful back in the 90s, but now it’s a close relation to jaywick.

@RevengeOfTheDirtyLaundry we have so many other beautiful seaside towns with lovely countryside around them: Cromer, Sheringham, Wells etc. so I’d recommend those far more!!
Yarmouth has a high crime rate, is very seedy once you go beyond the immediate coast road. As in, go 1 road inland!

I used to live in a seaside holiday town with a Butlins, it’s very run down, lots of drug issues and the town centre is a dive, but sometimes when running or dog walking along the seafront I’d see families with young kids coming down into the beach who had probably never or rarely seen the sea and they were always SO excited, it was lovely to see and reminded me that there could be worse places! It’s a happy place on a sunny day when everyone’s enjoying the sea, ice creams etc. Not my destination of choice but seeing how people love it, I guess we take it for granted when we have it a few steps away from home.

I’d much rather go to Blackpool than Dubai.

That is a statement that is impossible to argue with. Well said

Oh, the irony...

I'd much rather go to Dubai (I went last Christmas) than Blackpool.

Aaah, Blackpool…

I was on a day-trip date with my boyfriend many years ago.

He was propositioned for sex by a prostitute in broad daylight, on the sea front - whilst we were walking hand-In-hand!!

You’ll get some defenders on here and to be fair, the promenade isn’t bad, and the piers are ok, but once you get one road from the front, it really is a fetid dump. It’s seriously deprived, in a way I’ve not seen in any other town or city.

On our last visit, I felt genuinely unsafe walking from the car park to the front. Every guest house seems to have become a doss house. A drug deal taking place openly in the car park. Dodgy people everywhere. And I’m not some lily-livered person who’s lived a sheltered life; I rarely feel unsafe.

I don’t want to be too harsh, as I’m sure there are bits that are fine. The real tragedy is that it could actually be amazing with a VERY large amount of money pumped in to clear it up. However, that seems very unlikely. I remember as a kid in the 80s how well kept the guesthouses were, such a shame to see it in such a state.

Why St Anne's?

As are yours!

I mean, who wouldn't?!
Unless you're from Dubai....then a UK seaside coastal town might sound appealing 🤔

I think people born and raised in Dubai would prefer a trip to London.

Wow! Unbelievable! 🙈 How grim.

I once went to Wells next the sea, after a friend recommended it having spent years of family holidays there.

I wasnt terribly impressed tbh

Exactly.

Shame that you are happy to pay companies that use trafficked slaves

We were “open-mouth”shocked! We were only mid 20s and from a Midlands market town, so it was a real moment!

I haven’t been since I was a teenager and I no longer have young children, but I’d be happy to go for a weekend with a friend. Can’t see DH wanting to go. As far as traditional British seaside resorts go, we visit Weston SM and Llandudno every couple of years but I think they are on a much quieter scale and less run down (from what I hear of Blackpool).

I'm not sure you can speak English!
Most foreigners can spell better than you!....
Give me a foreigner any day over a chavvy Brit who shags around.....yuck

That's debatable. I actually met the house help of the family member I stayed with. She's treated perfectly fine, paid well and sees her family often .

I felt so safe there, much more than in London. Don't know if I'd live there but great place to be on holiday

Or arguably a seaside town.....just anywhere in the UK as it's not Dubai