Blackpool Sandcastle

On your visit to Blackpool, at the end of the Golden Mile, opposite the Pleasure Beach and on the seafront you may notice a peculiar pyramid building. Half is given over to the Grosvenor Casino, and the other half is The Sandcastle Water World. Apparently the Sandcastle used to have parking next to it, it appears however that this has been appropriated by the Grosvenor Casino with warning signs of dire consequences if you do try to park there. There is plenty of public parking around though. I had actually heard about this after doing a bit of research about tourist attractions in Blackpool. It promised to be one of Europe's largest undercover water ...

THIS IS A SERIOUS WARNING TO ALL PARENTS OF TODDLERS VISITING BLACKPOOL SANDCASTLE FOR THE ILLUMINATIONS SEASON. In the Sandcastle at blackpool is a childrens play area by the cafe. Now though you only get 45 minutes for £1.50, that's not my gripe. There is one entrance/exit in the play area yet it is in my opinion unsupervised. You pay at the cafe and your child is given a couloured smock to put on. I think the Sandcastle's idea is that parents sit in the cafe and supervise their kids themselves for 45 + mins, going to the cafe to buy food, snacks, drinks etc. It would be easy to put an attendant on the entrance to ensure that kids didn't leave unless ...

Over Easter weekend I did something I vowed I would never do: I went swimming at Blackpool Sandcastle. Now don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with the Sandcastle, per se, but there’s a lot wrong with it on a Bank Holiday, namely all the tourists. Still, it couldn’t be helped. The Sandcastle is on the South Promenade in Blackpool, almost directly opposite the Pleasure Beach. It’s somewhere I went a lot when growing up, but normally off season and mid week when it’s bearable. Weekends or Easter, half term or summer and it’s packed. Most days the pool opens at 10am and closes between 4.30 and 6pm. We arrived ...