Pier in (Brighton Palace Pier)

Member Name: shadowhawk

Product:	Brighton Palace Pier
Date:	09/04/04 (105 review reads)
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Advantages: Big, Alot to do, Free Entry

Disadvantages: Expensive, Loud (if you dont like it)

“Palace Pier” now just the “Brighton Pier”, I know this name change seems sudden but with uncertainty over the “west pier” the “palace pier” wanted to stamp their dominance upon the new city.

Brighton has been a seaside attraction for many years, about 100-200 years but whom cares.

The south is very expensive and its makes a good relief to have something that is free. Well free to enter if you want have any fun you are going to pay through the nose. With arcades being anything from 30p to £2 per go plus food being over normal pricing due to not much competition in the immediate area.

As you first head toward the pier you are faced with a big clock on top of the entrance gates which have shops coming off to the left and right offering everything from coffee, to ice cream, to fish and chips. Many stalls are situated outside on the pier including a picture shop, having your palm read, signature read, fortuneteller, and food outlets

The arcades are arranged into 2 building the first one being a very more modern set of arcades with the latest releases, dance mats are normally situated here. As you head towards the back of this building you are faced with a lot of “fruities” on the right and left, I have personally never seen the attraction to them but my mates seem to be addicted to them and if they are your type of thing you will enjoy this. In the first building still there is a mini café place if you wish to have a sit down inside.

Between the two buildings you come across two very instinctive sets. First one being a set of games to one those cute big cuddly toys, you know the type you see on films as the big hunky lad wins his little girl a prize. These stalls include basketball games, knocking over the tins, throwing balls into the milk jugs, and darts.
After this comes the fish and chips stall, a bit on the pricier side but if you’re in Brighton everyt
hing is. The quality of these fish and chips is also very nice with a wide range available to you both with the choices of sitting in and out. I do not know what it is but there is something to sitting outside eating fish and chips in the salt ridden air.
Just before you get into the next building you are faced on the right side with the “dolphin derby” blasting out music you cannot miss it. It’s a £1 entry and you race against other people by throwing the balls into the holes some holes are better then others moving along your dolphin a lot quicker then other holes.

The second building as a few more of the retro games including a lot of racing ones and crane games, this building as a rule of thumb normally proves to have cheaper arcades. As you push your way pass the arcades there is another mini café at the back a lot less quiet then the one at the front, appealing normally to the lot younger people. This is also where you can hire out a pool table, there is not a lot of tables and are not big at all but can prove a good laugh.

Just pass the arcade building you are faced with rides, the water flume, the waltz, 2 roller coasters, and some spinning ones. The water flume is over very quickly but if it’s hot sometimes its nice to get wet. The waltz is my favourite basically you go around in a circle while spinning in a circle in your own carriage. One roller coaster is just up and down, up and down, loop-a-loop, up and down, up and down then over. The other one is a lot slower but spins around while taking you around, not very fast and very jerky. One of the spinning ones in like a huge circle with carriages spaced around it starts to spin around then goes vertical large a large loop-a-loop and you just go around and around. The one you can see from the coast at night because it is well lit.

So in short if you are in Brighton you have to see the pier it’s very long and big for a pier, with things appealing t
o every age and habit.

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