Why is Blackpool considered a Holiday for people who cant afford holidays abroad?

[Ysabel 123]

I have just spent the day in Blackpool with my daughter and mrs as a treat in the School Holidays. We have had a such a top day, but fuck me was it expensive!

Reckoning up I spent the following
Pleasure Beach tickets £110
Parking £18
Dinner (2 burgers and drinks) £22
bowl of cockles and crab sticks £6
£20 in coins in arcade after the Pleasure Beach (lasted about 15 mins)
The darts game for a teddy on the South peir £5
A ride on the waltzers on the peir £16
5 donuts for the ride home £5

That's £202 for 3 of us in about 10 hours in the place. A Caravan for the night would have been £95.

How do families of 4 afford to spend a week there. It would certainly be cheaper to go to benidorm for a week

 

[DrBlueBob]

I have just spent the day in Blackpool with my daughter and mrs as a treat in the School Holidays. We have had a such a top day, but fuck me was it expensive!

Reckoning up I spent the following
Pleasure Beach tickets £110
Parking £18
Dinner (2 burgers and drinks) £22
bowl of cockles and crab sticks £6
£20 in coins in arcade after the Pleasure Beach (lasted about 15 mins)
The darts game for a teddy on the South peir £5
A ride on the waltzers on the peir £16
5 donuts for the ride home £5

That's £202 for 3 of us in about 10 hours in the place. A Caravan for the night would have been £95.

How do families of 4 afford to spend a week there. It would certainly be cheaper to go to benidorm for a week

I'd say that was about right; especially the £110 you spent on hookers.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

People don't go on holiday to Blackpool any more, apart from FOC's, and I doubt many of them go for a full week either.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Holidaying in the UK is mega expensive wherever you want to go.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

I have just spent the day in Blackpool with my daughter and mrs as a treat in the School Holidays. We have had a such a top day, but fuck me was it expensive!

Reckoning up I spent the following
Pleasure Beach tickets £110
Parking £18
Dinner (2 burgers and drinks) £22
bowl of cockles and crab sticks £6
£20 in coins in arcade after the Pleasure Beach (lasted about 15 mins)
The darts game for a teddy on the South peir £5
A ride on the waltzers on the peir £16
5 donuts for the ride home £5

That's £202 for 3 of us in about 10 hours in the place. A Caravan for the night would have been £95.

How do families of 4 afford to spend a week there. It would certainly be cheaper to go to benidorm for a week

Is the pleasure beach ticket a "ride all you want" on every ride? Last time I went there it was free entrance and you paid at the ride.

 

[NPBlue]

I went to Blackpool to play in their Hockey tournamemnet years ago, and we loved the place. That was 35 or so years ago now, so things may have changed, but we went there for years because we had so much fun.

We won the George Greaves trophy a couple of times, which isn't an achievement many people can brag about, and it had it's idiosyncracies like watching people eating Ice Cream on the prom half an hour after stuffing a full English breakfast down their throats, but it was what it was. Cheap, cheerfull, and a bloody good place to visit by the seaside.

 

[mexico1970]

People don't go on holiday to Blackpool any more, apart from FOC's, and I doubt many of them go for a full week either.

Hey I love Blackpool ;-)

To be fair we only do day trips there and only go when Northern Rail do their flash sales so it only costs £4 return because I am a tight arse.

Still a great walk down the promenade looking at all the derelict guest houses and the charity shops are a must to visit for bargains.

 

[Grassland Blue]

I have just spent the day in Blackpool with my daughter and mrs as a treat in the School Holidays. We have had a such a top day, but fuck me was it expensive!

Reckoning up I spent the following
Pleasure Beach tickets £110
Parking £18
Dinner (2 burgers and drinks) £22
bowl of cockles and crab sticks £6
£20 in coins in arcade after the Pleasure Beach (lasted about 15 mins)
The darts game for a teddy on the South peir £5
A ride on the waltzers on the peir £16
5 donuts for the ride home £5

That's £202 for 3 of us in about 10 hours in the place. A Caravan for the night would have been £95.

How do families of 4 afford to spend a week there. It would certainly be cheaper to go to benidorm for a week

You should have got your doughnuts from Morrisons.
That would have brought your spend down to under £200.
Think on for next time.
;- )

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Is the pleasure beach ticket a "ride all you want" on every ride? Last time I went there it was free entrance and you paid at the ride.

They don't do that anymore. But worse, they don't allow people to go in for free if they're not going on any rides. So grandma has to pay 20 quid just to walk around and mind everyone's stuff these days too.

 

[crublue1]

They don't do that anymore. But worse, they don't allow people to go in for free if they're not going on any rides. So grandma has to pay 20 quid just to walk around and mind everyone's stuff these days too.

Grandma you say?
FOC rules invoked and applied.
Polaroids or it didn't happen...

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Grandma you say?
FOC rules invoked and applied.
Polaroids or it didn't happen...

Calm down Wayne.

 

[Bettys Bell]

Can’t believe you have to pay to go on the pleasure beach . Was my boys favourite place when they were young.

 

[Yankunian]

when Pleasure Beach was free entry and you paid for your ride as you go it used to open until 11pm some nights, now they close at 6pm as they already have your money, been once since they changed that format, probably won't ever go back

 

[give it to gordon]

I have just spent the day in Blackpool with my daughter and mrs as a treat in the School Holidays. We have had a such a top day, but fuck me was it expensive!

Reckoning up I spent the following
Pleasure Beach tickets £110
Parking £18
Dinner (2 burgers and drinks) £22
bowl of cockles and crab sticks £6
£20 in coins in arcade after the Pleasure Beach (lasted about 15 mins)
The darts game for a teddy on the South peir £5
A ride on the waltzers on the peir £16
5 donuts for the ride home £5

That's £202 for 3 of us in about 10 hours in the place. A Caravan for the night would have been £95.

How do families of 4 afford to spend a week there. It would certainly be cheaper to go to benidorm for a week

Thats cheaper then what my mates and me pay to watch games at the Etihad.

Just spent a week in South West Wales. The most I paid for parking was £6 for 24hrs.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Don't go on the pleasure beach, it's taking the piss, £1 burger a road inland from Central Pier and 2p shufflers in the Amusements with 10p a card Pats Bingo almost across the road.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Don't go on the pleasure beach, it's taking the piss, £1 burger a road inland from Central Pier and 2p shufflers in the Amusements with 10p a card Pats Bingo almost across the road.

Didn't they used to sell burgers at Main Road?

 

[waspish]

Cost of living yep bet it’s not much difference now a week in Blackpool or a week in Spain!

As a kid in the 70’s Rhyl was our local weekly holiday and our big holiday was like going down south to Devon or Cornwall Blackpool Southport we went there for days out and a occasional weekend! Going abroad wasn’t a thing then or if it was it was to expensive..

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

We took our daughter when she was young for her first experience of a seaside town.

Granted it was chilly and a bit grey.

I asked her what she thought of her first trip to Blackpool.

“ Can we go back to Portugal next time”

 

[DTKOAG]

The clue is in the weather
Pissing it down = spend a fortune.
Lovely sunshine = 50% of the above

 

[Blue Mist]

OP, fortunately for you Social Services don't open until 9am so you still have time to edit your post.


Especially the bit that says you took your daughter to Blackpool for a treat.

Fuck me, I hope she never wags school or nicks something from a shop.