Blackpool illuminations info needed

[Damonlufc88]

Is their more to it than just driving down the promenade?
Also what days do they run from and do you have to pay to go in the car?

Not been since I was a child, it's around 80 miles 1 way so I may look to get a hotel for the night with wife and 2 sons. Oldest is ASD suspected and loves lights and sensory things etc.

If you head out towards Bispham they get better . It's free to drive down the promenade all the way thru. In Sept they have the fireworks displays on a Friday night . Think the lights are on every night .

www.blackpool-illuminations.net/2017/dates.html
Times and dates they run

Don't go on a weekend is my tip. It can take an hour to go a few hundred yards. Its just a massive traffic jam that barely moves. Its hard to get out of as well because of the stupid one way system they've put in. You don't have to pay as such, there are a couple of stations where someone holds out a massive plastic hand on a pole and you make a donation. Yes it is just a case of driving down the promenade. If you do go at a weekend it might be an idea to get one of the trams that go right down the promenade and view them from that. They dress some of them up in lights as rockets etc. I go in the week after school. We're there by 5, get some tea, have a walk up the pier, put kids pj's on and drive back through the lights but it might be a bit far for you to do that.

Also check out illuminasia at the winter gardens, that is a type of light display too . You pay to go in there . But worth googling because I'm sure I saw something about them reducing the prices to £5 but not sure how true that is.