Blackpool: A Rather Enjoyable Experience

[Dashing Bob S]

Yes, it's rather tatty and earthy, but I enjoyed Blackpool. The rooms at the Savoy were clean and comfortable (if rather less salubrious than it's London namesake!) and staff friendly and accommodating.

The food was rather shoddy, and I was unable to locate a reassuringly expensive restaurant, but settled gamely for the local seafood.

As for the game, I predict Blackpool (who could have buried us in the first twenty minutes when our defense and midfield were undertaking a passable impersonation of traffic cones) will win the fewest ever number of points in an ELP campaign.

[HH81]

got to agree with you on the points front. The question is how many pints of tennents did you get through? :)

[blackpoolhibs]

Yes, it's rather tatty and earthy, but I enjoyed Blackpool. The rooms at the Savoy were clean and comfortable (if rather less salubrious than it's London namesake!) and staff friendly and accommodating.

The food was rather shoddy, and I was unable to locate a reassuringly expensive restaurant, but settled gamely for the local seafood.

As for the game, I predict Blackpool (who could have buried us in the first twenty minutes when our defense and midfield were undertaking a passable impersonation of traffic cones) will win the fewest ever number of points in an ELP campaign.

:agree: I'm going to have a bet that they lose the most goals ever in the EPL. My girlfriend is manager of a William Hills shop, and is getting me a price on 100 or more.

[Dashing Bob S]

got to agree with you on the points front. The question is how many pints of tennents did you get through? :)

The same as I normally do back home. :wink:

The bar staff at the hotel were decent enough to provide slices of lemon and lime after I was moved to complain, with a little word on standards. The beauty of life lies in the details.

[glow1875]

FYI bet365 are offering evens that Blackpool are bottom of the EPL come christmas

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

DBS - did you partake in the oysters from the seafood bar? For the more discerning gentleman I found them to be a snip at just under a guinea a time!

[Dalehibbie]

Hope The Savoy has changed a bit since I worked there, saw a cockroach dragging a slice of toast down a drain once.

[Phil D. Rolls]

Hope The Savoy has changed a bit since I worked there, saw a cockroach dragging a slice of toast down a drain once.

That sounds so Les Dawson. Did the mice fling themselves on the traps at meal times?

[.Sean.]

FYI bet365 are offering evens that Blackpool are bottom of the EPL come christmas
Free money!! :agree:


Blackpool really will struggle this season. Can't see them scoring anywere near the amount they'll concede. Leaky defence it looks like they've got.

[Dashing Bob S]

DBS - did you partake in the oysters from the seafood bar? For the more discerning gentleman I found them to be a snip at just under a guinea a time!

Yes, I did indeed, and very nice they were too. I was actually in the Seafood Restaurant in Bond Street, not the place on the prom. A nice fillet of Dover Sole too - highly recommended.

Perhaps we might get to play Brighton or Bournemouth next year?

[Toaods]

Spent 3 days in Bournemouth last month - lovely place, cracking beaches, good weather almost guaranteed, tidy women and good night life. Perfect away friendly with Ryanair delivery.

[hibee92]

FYI bet365 are offering evens that Blackpool are bottom of the EPL come christmas

i'll have some of that! :agree:

[Sergey]

Yes, it's rather tatty and earthy, but I enjoyed Blackpool. The rooms at the Savoy were clean and comfortable (if rather less salubrious than it's London namesake!) and staff friendly and accommodating.

The food was rather shoddy, and I was unable to locate a reassuringly expensive restaurant, but settled gamely for the local seafood.

As for the game, I predict Blackpool (who could have buried us in the first twenty minutes when our defense and midfield were undertaking a passable impersonation of traffic cones) will win the fewest ever number of points in an ELP campaign.

I concur on all points raised, Bob, and Blackpool as a town is indeed a little dated and grubby, but fun nonetheless.

For digs, I cleverly opted for a highly commended boarding house in neighbouring, St. Annes. Fine cuisine was to be had in several local eateries (but unbelievably, no local seafood was to be had), with The Olive Tree Brasserie offering a lovely selection of Mediterranean bits and pieces that might be meze, or tapas, or just snacks, and which counted as sophisticated fine dining for the residents of Fylde.

I did make a mistake in ordering two lamb chops, skimpily butchered, overcooked and anointed with a coarse mulch that looked like the blessing of a passing gull.

That aside, I couldn't help but notice that St. Annes is plainly popular for those nearing death, but essentially it's a nice town.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

We might even make it to Margate DBS, I believe Cassandras father on the tv show Only Fools and Horses recommends the cockles from that locality.

[Bostonhibby]

[QUOTE=Dashing Bob S;2539688]Yes, it's rather tatty and earthy, but I enjoyed Blackpool. The rooms at the Savoy were clean and comfortable (if rather less salubrious than it's London namesake!) and staff friendly and accommodating.

Was this Savoy perhaps named not after London's most indulgent but over rated establishment, but in fact the cabbage of the same name DBS?

Me, I enjoyed the full 3 courses at the Clifton in Lytham St Annes (?) with my Blackpool based mate - washed down with 5 pints of decent ale from their own bar, all very genteel, until we hit the sea front, I can only liken it to Porty when the weegies used to migrate there en masse in the late 60's and early 70's only 10 times bigger......... still, great place of it's type is Blackpool, pleased to report that the back seat of the car was clean and comfortable all the way home afterwards with ample toilet facilities just outside the door..........

Maybe we could start a hotel guide.................

[skipster7]

Free money!! :agree:


Blackpool really will struggle this season. Can't see them scoring anywere near the amount they'll concede. Leaky defence it looks like they've got.

been watching star wars yoda ? :greengrin

[.Sean.]

been watching star wars yoda ? :greengrin
Whoooshed right over me that one

[skipster7]

Whoooshed right over me that one

ignore me mate,amused i easily am:wink:

[Exiled in Poole]

Spent 3 days in Bournemouth last month - lovely place, cracking beaches, good weather almost guaranteed, tidy women and good night life. Perfect away friendly with Ryanair delivery.

A Bournemouth friendly would suit me down to the ground, but I thought that Ryan Air had pulled the Edinburgh Bournemouth route?

[marinello59]

A Bournemouth friendly would suit me down to the ground, but I thought that Ryan Air had pulled the Edinburgh Bournemouth route?

Nope. It lands at Bournemouth Paris Beauvais Airport and you bus it in from there.:agree:

[Dashing Bob S]

Nope. It lands at Bournemouth Paris Beauvais Airport and you bus it in from there.:agree:

I heard they'd teamed with ITA to put on a regular service between Edinburgh Maribor and Bournemouth Paris Beauvais with five days on 'luxury' coaches thrown in gratis.

[glow1875]

FYI bet365 are offering evens that Blackpool are bottom of the EPL come christmas

eh... oops. I think christmas might be canceled this year, 'santa' backed this quite heavily. :dizzy