Looking to book up for Blackpool as a non driver what’s the best options to get there and back , anyone any ideas
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Looking to book up for Blackpool as a non driver what’s the best options to get there and back , anyone any ideas
I stayed in Blackpool when I went to the Grand National a few years back. Got the TransPenine Express to Preston then the train from there to Blackpool.
Just a heads up in case you haven't been to the train station in Preston. Many changes for different routes, and they can change the platform of approaching trains at very short notice meaning you have to leg it to the updated platform. Keep your eye on the arrivals board. That was my experience.
Never had an issue going via Preston. However coming back I'd advise getting an earlier train to Preston as I've had too many a close shave getting my connection due to slow running trains/cancellation from Blackpool
I have to say m8, I think of Blackpool as the typical sea-side resort that people used to go to before cheap flights, it's very run down nowadays, lots of stag and hen party's, it might be ok for a weekend but I personally wouldn't want to be there for any longer than that.
Thanks for all the replies yeh it’s just for the weekend 👌
Just come down to London, cheap flights and/or trains and there are really good deals with hotels (check Premier Inn prices at the moment). There so much to do that's better than a rundown seaside resort.
Good old days the September weekend in Blackpool.
It is rundown and a bit sad looking but with a bairn it still does the job.
We took our daughter there last year during the illumimations for a couple of days and she had a ball. Things that go up and down and spin, sugary food and bright colours. You can't really go wrong.
The day we arrived we were on one of the piers when the lights came on. As we walked along the front and she saw the Tower lit up like a rainbow she told us it was 'the best place in the world'. She'll learn but I'd have no hesitation in taking her back.
Aye long gone, it's now the passage de terror where you walk through a lot of scary scenes from films, and at the end you get chased by a guy with a pretend chainsaw and run out to a bar where everyone laughs at you for being scared. :greengrin
Not sure what that bar is called these days.
a mate just back from a weeks caravan holiday at seton sands with his daughter = £800 :rolleyes: stuff that
Done the train journey Edinburgh to Liverpool for twenty odd years and always preferred to change at Wigan to save running around the station at Preston. It was great for a short time when there was a direct Edinburgh to Liverpool train, that didn’t last long though.
We done a week a couple of years ago at a Haven in the Lake District for £220 for 3 of us. Same holiday this year they wanted £765.
I get it's a sellers market, people will pay it and these places lost a fortune over the last 18 months. However it's a risky strategy if there is a public backlash in the years to come.
Travel Lodges have good bargains most of the time. Basic but clean.
Some of the prices for chalets and lodges are outrageous. Greedy sods.
The prices of lodges are ridiculous this year, we take the kids too a lodge every summer and this year they have been more than double the price to the same places we have been previously, we managed to get an ok deal for one in Nottinghamshire for a week, just need to find things for the kids to do down there now.