Tag: Blackpool

  • How to Save Blackpool Pleasure Beach

    How to Save Blackpool Pleasure Beach

    Blackpool Pleasure Beach is not having its best year. In fact, the popularity of Blackpool Pleasure Beach has been in decline for a while now. The general consensus is that the current state of the park just isn’t acceptable. We covered the park’s issues in detail in a video we posted earlier this year but…

  • What’s going wrong with Blackpool Pleasure Beach?

    What’s going wrong with Blackpool Pleasure Beach?

    Blackpool Pleasure Beach is undoubtedly one of the most iconic amusement parks in the world, full of history and brimming with nostalgia. However, there seems to be a growing consensus within the British theme park community that the park is in decline. This opinion was supported on the day the park opened for the 2024…

  • Blackpool Pleasure Beach Dining Review

    Blackpool Pleasure Beach Dining Review

    Having recently visited Blackpool Pleasure Beach for the first time in a few years, I had pre disposed ideas of the dining options available. Whilst there is of course, a vast selection of typical theme park food such as chips, burgers, ice creams and doughnuts etc. , I was pleasantly surprised to find some interesting…

  • Icon at Blackpool Pleasure Beach- Review

    Icon at Blackpool Pleasure Beach- Review

      Icon at Blackpool Pleasure Beach is the parks new ride for 2018. It’s the first major rollercoaster built in the park since Infusion opened in 2007. Icon is the tenth rollercoaster to be built at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and the parks sixth steel coaster. The ride, designed by Mack rides, cost an estimated £16.25…

  • Icon to open at Blackpool Pleasure Beach

    Icon to open at Blackpool Pleasure Beach

    Blackpool Pleasure Beach’s new rollercoaster Icon is set to open on May 25th. Icon has cost Blackpool Pleasure Beach roughly £16mlion and the ride has been manufactured by Mack Rides. The rollercoaster itself is a multi-launch coaster similar to the rollercoaster Helix at Liseberg in Sweden. Icon at Blackpool Pleasure Beach will be the first…