A Long Weekend in Blackpool @ the Grand Metropole

Advantages: Clean and generally friendly hotel, very reasonable prices
Disadvantages: Rooms need ventilation

...a separate cubicle to allow wheelchair access. rating for disabled friendliness: 5 out of 10 PRICING We booked our stay by telephone having been sent an email from dealcheckers.co.uk with an offer to stay 3 nights for the price of 2 at £99 a night. This worked out at £66 a night for the 2 of us or even £33 a night each ? which is a fabulous price if you consider that breakfast and dinner were included in the price for the duration. Even though we got such a good price, we saw various adverts up on walls within the hotel offering even cheaper rates! So it is definitely worthwhile calling to check what the best current rates are before booking quoting any promotion codes. When wandering around Blackpool we noted other hotels in the area seemed to offer cheaper rates but they seemed to be mostly B&B rates and the hotels looked nowhere...

anonymili 03.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Grand Metropole Hotel Blackpool, Blackpool

A bleak Blackpool hotel

Advantages: see review
Disadvantages: see review

... Background When Mrs B and I decided that we would take Baby B on her first seaside holiday we knew that Blackpool was tacky so knew that it wasn't exactly sparkling and the place it used to be but we thought we would go along anyway and try and have a little family break with our 3 month old baby. It all seemed like a really good idea but seeing as we were not the most rich of new parents we thought we'd do it on as much as a budget as possible and after trawling through the internet we came across Liberty's and decided that it sounded ideal. The fact that it included dinner in with the deal was really what swung it for us, we didn't fancy walking around for hours in an evening trying to find somewhere to eat with a young baby in tow. First opinion When we first saw the hotel we immediately thought what have we done...

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Review of Liberty'S On The Square, Blackpool

Blackpool Las Vegas

Advantages: Funny, Tragic, Entertaining
Disadvantages: I cannot think of any

...Blackpool is an exciting journey around the bright lights in a series that will make you laugh and cry all at the same time. It is dark humor the kind that despite being tragic is funny. I like the musical pieces with songs by Johnny Cash, Tom Jones and others. Blackpool is the tale of greediness, laughter, love and family life through the ups and downs of Blackpool's arcade owner Ripley Holden. You are introduced to (David Morrissey) Ripley Holden who is a family businessman Jack-The Lad, Bully. A tough, mean guy. Ripley is ready to make his millions as Blackpool remodels itself as the Las Vegas of the North. Life is not easy the family experiences many tragedies and troubles. Just when you think things couldn't get any worse for the family they do. Danny his son has anxieties; daughter Shyanne is a bit of a rebel and his wife...

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Review of Blackpool/Viva Blackpool (DVD)

Blackpool Revisited

Advantages: Plus ca change
Disadvantages: Plus c'est les memes shows

..."There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool That's noted for fresh air and fun And Mr. and Mrs. Ramsbottom Went there with young Albert, their son. They didn't think much to the ocean, The waves they were piddlin' and small. There were no wrecks and nobody drownded, 'Fact, nothin' to laugh at at all!" * At about the time when Stanley Holloway had music hall audiences rolling in the aisles with his monologues about the Ramsbottom family, I came to Blackpool for the first time. I was a babe in arms, brought to live in England from abroad, and stayed for several months before moving to London. I remember nothing of that sojourn. In a review about my grandparents I have already related something of my visits to Blackpool as a boy. Suffice it here to say that I adored the place: the piers, the open-topped "toast...

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Review of Blackpool in general

Blackpool Pleasure Beach

Advantages: Great rides, cheaper than some other parks
Disadvantages: Lacks the charm other parks have

...I visited Blackpool Pleasure Beach last year and I thought it was great value for money. The weather in Blackpool wasnt always great during my 4 day stay but this park didnt disappoint where ride were concerned or eating out. The general atmosphere of this park is happy and fun which is great for the family however the atmosphere here is nothing compared to theme parks like Disneyland or Universal Studios, but you get what you pay for with this park in the sense of good rides and entertainment. To pay in to the park you need to buy wristbands, I think that if you want to get the best out of the park the Ultimate Daily Wristband is the best deal, however if you dont really want to do many rides or are not fit to for various physical reasons the Pleasure Beach Pass will probably be enough for you and then when in the park you can...

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Review of Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Blackpool

Go on spoil yourself at Blackpool

Advantages: Great day out for the whole family.
Disadvantages: lone queues

...I am a great fan of Blackpool pleasure beach, I have been going to the park ever since I was a child and I still continue to go now, It is never the same as it was the time before this are all ways getting added or updated, so it?s a new experience each time you go. The one thing that I can remember about Blackpool Pleasure beach when I was a child was the laughing clown at the parks entrance, this used to scare the hell out of me, so whenever I return I always smile when I still see that same laughing clown sitting there. Blackpool is great for a weekend break of the occasional family holiday, it has a number of other attractions, such as arcades, the tower, a casino, a sea life center, the north and south piers, shows, go karting, a zoo and not forgetting the pleasure beach. The pleasure beach has over one hundred rides, which suit...

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Review of Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Blackpool

A quieter side to Blackpool.

Advantages: Clean, friendly and great value for money.
Disadvantages: None worthy of mention during my two night stay.

...was great throughout) If you are heading to Blackpool anytime soon and you are lucky enough to be going kids free then I strongly suggest you take a good look at this hotel as your choice of place to stay! ADDITIONAL INFO WEBSITE: http://www.belgravemadison.co.uk/index.html ADDRESS: 270 ? 274 Queens Promenade, Bispham, Blackpool, Lancashire FY2 9HD TELEPHONE: 01253 351 570 EMAIL: info@belgravemadison.co.uk DIRECTIONS (taken from their website) The Belgrave Madison is easy to find. Take the M55, following the signs right into the centre of Blackpool. You will drive through a car park onto Central Drive. Take your first left and then right at the Promenade. Continue straight on to Bispham. The Belgrave Madison is on your right just after Bispham Tram Station. Thanks for reading © thebigc1690...

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Review of Belgrave Madison Hotel, Blackpool

~ My Blackpool Pleasure ~

Advantages: Pleasure Beach, sealife centre, cost
Disadvantages: Pier amusements

..., literally next door to each other all the way down the promenade. I would advise booking in advance and not just to rely on turning up and finding a place, as you would be surprised how quickly these places fill up on a weekend. The President Hotel - this was situated right on the front of the promenade and seemed really popular, this looked like a nice place to stay and was one of the slightly more expensive ranging from £35-60 per night depending on the time you go. There website is extremely helpful at there are loads of pictures of the rooms, which look rather posh (oo err) www.thepresidenthotel.co.uk Blackpool Piers The North Pier - Opened in May 1863 and a massive 1,405 feet long, 27 feet wide and built from 12,000 tons of metal. Central Pier - Started building in started in June 1867 and completed in May 1868.T he...

lilly2006 20.03.2006 · Read review
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Review of Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Blackpool

Blackpool Pleasure Beach....A Real Pleasure!

Advantages: Fantastic rides, fairly cheap, clean and tidy, a brilliant day out
Disadvantages: Some of the rides a bit uncomfortable, have to pay extra for some things

... Intro I felt I would write a review on Blackpool Pleasure Beach as I have now been twice and feel I should let others know how great this place is. Being a big fan of themeparks, I was honestly hesitant to visit Blackpool Pleasure Beach as I imagined it being a few fairground rides and I genuinely didn't think it'd compare to other places I'd been to. However, it is now my favourite themepark of all time, and here's why... PRICES Adult tickets are usually around the £25 each mark, which is brilliant compared to places such as Alton Towers who charge around £36. Prices change throughout the year - for example, if you visit the park on June 10th, for two adults and two children it will only cost you £74.00. For two adults and two children to visit Alton Towers on the 10th June, it will cost you a much more expensive £102...

Sonic4290 09.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Blackpool

The North Pier, Blackpool

Advantages: Lots of fresh air, fully accessible by disabled visitors
Disadvantages: A small admission charge

...If you think about the main English seaside resorts then the chances are that they will have a pier. There is something very quintessentially English about seaside piers and in Britain they are largely restricted to England, with a handful in Wales and none at all north of the border in Scotland. Blackpool in the north west of England is unusual because it boasts three different piers. The North Pier, Central Pier and South Pier. As its name suggests The North Pier has the most northerly location of the three. It is also the oldest pier in the town and at 503 metres long it is also its longest pier. Eugenius Birch was drafted in to design The North Pier. He had been responsible for the design of Britain's first seaside pier at Margate. This was his second pier project and following its success he would go on to design a further...

micksheff 11.11.2008 (12.11.2008) · Read review
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Review of The North Pier, Blackpool