Blackpool Pleasure Beach

If you like white knuckle rides then Blackpool Pleasure beach is a great day out, it is located near the South Pier and is easiy accessible through the trams and buses that run along the seafront. There are also a number of car parks near by. When we visited we were staying in a B&B earer the north shore pier so used the trams. There is a £5 entry fee to pay to enter the park, then you can then either purchase individual ride tickets or get a wristband, if you are going to spend the daythere and go on lots of rides then the wristband is by far the best way to go and it will set you back £25 however we used Tesco clubcard vouchers which cuts 75% off the ...  Read the complete review

**An Unexpected Pleasure** *Say "Blackpool" to someone and you're likely to end up swapping stories of hen parties, stag nights and boozy days among the slots and tat. Certainly this has been my main experience to date ..... until last month. *Blackpool Pleasure Beach - where? The pleasure beach is situated at the south end of Blackpool sea front, close to several large parking areas which are well signed from the motorway. Trams stop right outside and if you're really in the holiday mood there's even a horse and cart which runs from the promenade nearer the town centre! Train station central and south are both within walking ...  Read the complete review

This review is focused on the Wild Mouse roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure beach. The Wild Mouse is a bit of an unusual roller coaster. It's more of a genre than a specific coaster. The Wild Mouse (or Crazy Mouse, depending on the translation - there are many of them all over the world) is a tightly confined coaster, taking up a small physical space, and typically taking the form of a cuboid. This review is specifically about the Wild Mouse at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. It's the kind of thing legend, or at least folklore is made of. It's been there since 1958, albeit with some modifications since then. But that makes it over 50 years old! And ...  Read the complete review

Blackpool Pleasure Beach was founded in 1896 with the aim of building an American style theme park which made adults feel like children again and has grown until over 100 years later it is now Britain's top theme park and rates as the 14th most popular amusement park in the world. I have now joined the ranks of 5.5 million people flocking there annually and have visited twice, the first time in 2008 and we had such a good time there that we were inspired to book a short break in Blackpool in 2009 to visit the theme park again. The Pleasure Beach is situated on Blackpool's promenade just opposite the seafront. There is some limited parking in the areas around ...  Read the complete review

I visited the Blackpool Pleasure beach a month ago and was impressed overall. Since my visit there has been some bad press as there was an incident involving the Big Dipper in which two cars crashed together. I would advise against this putting anyone off visiting the park as it is one of Britain's oldest and most entertaining attractions. In 2007, Pleasure Beach was ranked as the 14th most popular theme park in the world with 5.5 million visitors and has over 125 rides and attractions. Some of these include: Grand National - one of the oldest attractions that was first built in 1935 and is one of the world's few wooden roller coasters. It is 3300 feet long ...  Read the complete review