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The day they started charging a flat fee to get into the park, was the day it started to decline. For me, the final nail in the PB coffin was charging parents full price to walk around the park to watch their kids on the rides. I'd been going to the PB regularly since the late 70's, 80's & 90's when the park was full, and I mean full, of paying customers. None of this wristband nonsense. You paid to get on the rides, then it was tickets so you basically only bought tickets for the actual rides you wanted to go on. We probably spent more than what the wristbands are nowadays but the parents could walk around for free whilst the kids had fun. The good part about this was you could walk in and out the park whenever you wanted to all day, until it closed around 11pm. Fast forward to the early 2000's and now its wristbands only if you want to go on rides, that's fair enough but once parents and children who didn't want to go on the rides were charged £5, then £10 and finally the full price to get in, that was it for me. There's no way I'm paying around £180 upwards for my family and i to go on a few rides, pay way over the odds for Burger King food or sloppy pizzas and have the park close before 6pm. 6pm ffs, that's business hours!! You can see with the amount of neglect around the park that their priorities are wrong. Not everyone wants to go fast or touch the sky. The Grand Prix and The Monorail were perfect rides that took minutes to go around the park, the same with the River Caves. Now they want you on and off a ride in 30 seconds, where's the fun in that? RIP Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Thirty odd quid to get into the park when pre booked and all rides available. £50 for a go on a kiddies ride that's closing down. Where did they get that price from? Oh, and nothing for the Big One's thirtieth.
The owners really want the park to go out of business it seems, they charge obscene amounts for things and barely make any upgrades every year. Its just a soulless place nowadays slowly rusting away. The whole place needs a good lick of paint and some love put back into it so sad to see.
Its definitely sad seeing the park so quiet and quite neglected in some areas compared to how it used to be back in the day. Hopefully things will improve and become presentable again as they still do some good refurbished things such as the big one re track, big dipper re track and paint etc
Gutted seeing it like this cause it holds great memories for me as a kid in the 90s with my granny 😢 Expensive tho even the grub Alton Towers even flamingo land will take over pleasure beach now and with thorpe park new tallest rollercoaster that looks amazing but over in seconds will be busy especially this summer with hyperia opening
Used to be open Fairground like Southport but now charging everyone entrance; should have it opened for punters to mingle in and out, to have choice to observe, maybe cheeky Fairground Donut / Ice / Hot dog with family but to go on rides you can either pay by Contactless card or save money like a Day Pass
@@dafyddthomas7299 think Amanda Thompson not doing a great job I keep hearing from people saying they would prefer her brother but I don't know I'm no expert but expensive tho especially if you just want to walk about with your family but not ride anything
It’s looking shockingly neglected in places. What are the management playing it? Such a shame to see it like this. I’m amazed they’re still allowing people to ride the train when it looks as bad as it does. I really hope Universal Studios Great Britain gets the go ahead, because our own British theme parks need a good kick up the arse. If the Pleasure Beach carries on like this, then it really doesn’t deserve to survive.
Cost of living crisis and they are charging £50 😮 for one ride grand Prix Pleasure beach need to fix the safari skull , so sad to see it in such a state , what's happening with the River Caves?
Im unsure what is happening with the river caves, was open on opening weekend but has been closed ever since. With it being indoors there isn’t much visible changes occurring
@@stevethecoasterfan do you think the River Caves has closed for good ? I'm worried as there is no work on the outside being done and the River Caves lettering is down 😢
@@davidGPS95 no one knows until the park releases a statement. With the majority of the attraction being indoors no one can see if that is where the work is being taken place
I think it's all too little too late for the PB now. I started going in the 70s. I think the way management have run the park after Geoffrey sadly passed away is almost criminal, and no wounder numbers are falling and it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the PB was sold off.
I went to the pleasure beach about 22 years ago as a young millennial and the place was bustling, everything open. Now i wouldnt enter Blackpool or the pleasure beach.☹️😭
Still plenty of other attractions throughout blackpool that are still bustling, its just the pleasure beach that has sadly dropped in numbers due to a series of factors some by the park and some just from life events such as obviously things in life like cost of living etc.
Without being disrespectful, another big problem is Blackpool. tThe reason the owners are trying to market the place as pleasure beach resort or pleasure beach Lancashire is clearly an attempt to get away from how many people in this country now perceive Blackpool. for the non enthusiast who wants to go somewhere with rides - they are going to think of Alton Towers.
Some of the problems at Blackpool pleasure Beach are because the uk has changed, now Blackpool pleasure Beach is having to compete directly with theme parks, whilst the owners are not doing anything much to make it better, it’s can’t possibly match those places. another problem is that lot of Blackpool rides now feel old and dated. this year provide a horrible viewpoint of this problem for Blackpool pleasure beach, look at the big one, then look at nemesis when the two rides opened in 1994 it was fairly obvious nemesis was a new Modern style rollercoaster, someone I know often talks about nitro at six flags in New Jersey, nitro is now over 20 years old very similar size shape height to the big one but it still feels fantastic and still gets great reviews whereas the big one really feels old and dated now, as John Wardley said at the time when you go for the highest and fastest you often wind up with quite a boring ride. Blackpool has too much of this. They do not have good theming And the people in charge really don’t seem to be aiming to do much about that.
Missing the point that both nemesis and nitro are B&M coasters and big one is obviously a arrow dynamics coasters, 2 very different manufacturers with different manufacturing styles/CAD styles which is why B&M still feel smoothish in some aspects etc
The owners are f^^%%^ big time at moment; a) the opening day disaster b) high price of entrance vs Ride Availabilty c) Closing Grand Prix but then 2 weeks later doing Closure Upcharge of Ridicous & Obscene amount of Money £50 d) Situation regarding neglected many say River Caves, Railway now & also The Tower Free Fall Ride ? - what's going on with this. Think for the money and at moment would go to a theme park like alton towers, Chessington, etc until Blackpool get there s%%%$ together.
Being saying this for last cpl years when the new indoor theme park opens in 2030 that's the end of pleasure beach not bef time only will hv themselves to blame just ripping people off as they hv fr years
