I visit Blackpool Pleasure Beach for the first time in 20 Years! with AdventureMe 

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Great video stephen, stopped Going when they started charging to Gain entry , but many Grand memories, including THE LOG FLUME.

We go to Blackpool at least twice a year but not been in the pleasure beach since they started charging for entry. RIP OFF

I can remember the laughing clown being at the entrance to the Fun House that used to be at BPB.

I paused your video at 14.52-And I would say to one and all to pause it there and reflect upon these points I will make. Rewind the clock to 1997 when the park was free at the point of entry-Amanda's father was running the park and the park was thriving and heaving with visitors-average attendance in the Illumination period was around 150,000-300,000 a day and sometimes more at the weekend. The bridge in the sequence paused at 14.52 in the video was like walking up and down in a sea of ants-It was so busy you were almost like sardines packed in a can-It was an amazing time. Which continued well into the 2000's. Now fast forward back to 2023 and the average attendance today isn't even 10% of the above figures-why? Because they attach an over priced tag to an attraction that was once free at the point of entry. And yes you paid for the rides individually(back then)-but you had the choice to spend what you wanted to spend within your own personal budget. I fully agree that there should be an admission price/fee to enter, yet to have a minimum price tag of £12 for the mere privilege of walking around the park is beyond mind-blowing!. My late uncle with dementia just loved to enter the park and watch the people riding the rides, enjoying the ambiance of the park. As his late brother did too. And I am more than sure many others lose out and feel the same. The park almost alienates many people from enjoying the iconic amusement park by attaching an overinflated price tag! I visited the park around 8 years ago as my niece and her family were visiting. I think it was around £120 for the five of us and that included a disabled family member and another that wasn't riding. I don' think we were in there any longer than 5 hours if that! The park was a shadow of it's former self in many ways. A lot of the indoor amusement areas were so rundown and dilapidated, buckets galore in the arcade areas stopping water from falling on visitors. The place was almost decaying from within-it was awful to see. Some rides were closed due to staffing issues and others closed early. And the park closed at around 5pm! I recall between the 80's and the early 2000's that the park would regularly be open past midnight! It was a totally different park as was Blackpool a totally different seaside town in every way. I am grateful and fortunate to have experienced the great times on the park and in Blackpool. I don't see it will ever be like that again. Yet I do believe that the Pleasure Beach like most attractions in and around Blackpool need to have a good hard look at themselves, and see that rather than attracting people they are daily alienating people through their over indulgent prices. A good start would be to advertise more to the wider local community and to send out information and flyers to the local community. Offering discounts and information on the many wonderful attractions Blackpool has on offer. Come on Blackpool Tourism and all the attractions-wake up and put Blackpool back on the map where it more than belongs. A great video-just a great shame to see the park so quiet and almost empty of life.

Congratulations Stephen 🎉👏👏👏 for going to the pleasure beach after all that time. Shame we didn't see your reactions though, would've loved to see and hear it. Well done 👍

Get in there Steve 💪 you got a bucket list going on, your on a role mate, the tower and the pleasure Beach, you'll be swimming in the sea in yer speedo's soon 🙃 we'll done old fellow 👏

We went to the Pleasure Beach two weeks ago after many many years also,absolutely loved it but do miss the days of just walking in to the park.

I have not been in the pleasure beach since they changed it so you could not just walk in and spend the day just walking around and please yourself which rides you went on.

I think theres absolutely no atmosphere now that you cant just stroll round so there are hardly any people there, I've not been since you could just walk around, they shouldnt charge you to go in its took all the atmosphere away, it's dead, but I can see the reasoning I suppose. I remember the laughing clown as you went in, and diamond lils and the paseo de terror, its changed so much what a shame 😕 xx

I remember that foam going all over the Pleasure Beach when I worked there as a student in the mid 80's. It was a sight to behold.😀😀

It looks desperately quiet there. The excitement I remember from the 1980s seems to have disappeared, probably because the place seems virtually empty. It used to be teeming with people.

That documentary you mentioned showing blackpool pleasure Beach in the 90s is on RU-vid and well worth watching. The foam river caves is well funny

Loved this, Stephen, I've not been to the pleasure beach since the 90s, that clown still gives me the creeps, nice to see Darren with you, been following him for a while, great vlog, enjoyed it. 👍😊

I went to the pleasure beach last week for the first time since 1991! (first time back in Blackpool since 1998) Had a brilliant time. 3 rides on my favourite woody the Grand National. I’d forgotten how intense Revolution was!! Definitely coming back again next year 😃

Blackpool Pleasure Beach was great fun in the 90s, open till around midnight i remember, really busy too. The 1994 opening of the Pepsi Max Big One was intense and the queues for it were hours waiting time, but loved it back then. You used to be able to get a pack of ride tickets for £40, included also in the bundle was tickets graded A / B / C (different rides accepted tickets of various grades back then) and also in the pack included 4 tickets to one of the shows too, great times. (i think you used to buy one pack get one free at certain times etc, if anybody can remember?) I also used to always remember they had 4 spotlights in the sky that used to be on all night too, Blackpool Pleasure Beach was great when i was a kid. Now it is corporate and all about taking in money, not having a good time, family or childhood experiences.

13:40 RIP Wild Mouse 1958-2017 gone but not forgotten ❤

Brilliant video, brings back loads of memories, I am not as brave as you though I have lost my nerve lol thank you both for taking us with you❤️❤️

Stephen your channel goes from strength to strength. Absolutely fantastic video. Personally I love the pleasure beach and is the main reason why I go to blackpool for many years. Yes the variety of rides of the pleasure beach make it stand out. I think that the wrist band charge is reasonable. However I do not agree with the the speedy pass. Personally I think to benefit a day in the pleasure beach you need to go on a quiet day. Pleasure beach best theme park in the world for me😊. Keep up the videos stephen awesome stuff🎉🎉🎉

Last time I went on the grand National it cost me a couple of hundred pounds. When getting off I had something loose in my mouth what turned out to be the crown on my tooth, all the shaking and bouncing had broken it off it took two dentists at the same practice to sort it!

Wow Stephen an amazing video. Glad you had an epic day at Pleasure Beach. I have got to do it when I am next in town, as never done any of those rides you went on.

It's far too expensive

Cracking video fellas not been on the pleasure beach for years will do next year ime missing the sights. Hello to adventure me long time no see hehe.

We went on the revalution wnen it first opened we stayed on it 3 times straight after one another Brilliant ride

Great video Stephen also great to see Darren he a great person and great channel too there some great rides at blackpool i can't wait for next video I hope you and your family and friends are well and safe

Hi Stephen, always enjoy your videos. I remember as a kid when you would walk up to the kiosk and pay 50p for a ride on the Grand National, etc. Can you remember the old Fun House and the Maze was fantastic, the whole purpose was to find the coffee shop and afterwards it wasn't easy to find your way back out. So many great rides that are sadly missed. Dave

Thanks for another great vlog Stephen i agree you should pay to get in to the Park but i don't agree that you need to pay the full price just to walk round

Ooooh baby 😘

Hi Stephen great vlog from the pleasure beach nice to see Darren with you I will check his video out later on

No laughin clown any more then as you walk in oh ace seeing the laughin clown glad he ain’t disappeared glad you enjoyed the rides fantastic video till throughly enjoyed it the next one 😊

Great same for me it's about 25 years ago when I last we t in❤

We went to go in the pleasure beech just to walk around but not paying just to walk about as the rides do not agree with me 😠

I go back even further than you Stephen. Spent a lot of my teenage years in Blackpool and on the Pleasure Beach at the weekends. In the late 50s. Of course they didn’t have the Big One then. I enjoy all your videos. Keep em coming.

Brilliant Stephen im going with the family in two weeks and cant wait.

I'm happy to see you team up with 'Adventure Me' (already a subscriber). Laughing my head off as you are so eager to ride 'Valhalla' at the start of the day! We got drenched and we were wearing ponchos. The 'Grand National' is still my favorite ride. I'm a fan of wooden coasters. BPB have some great rides to be honest' The Big One, Icon, Infusion are all brilliant. Maybe you will get someone to go through 'Pasaje Del Terror' with you for Halloween

Hey wasn't expecting that little bonus - ghost train was very good and so noisy, with you on the admission charge, wasn't really much to see included in the entry fee but liked some of the props. Hope you're working through the 1000 plus images from your big trip, and looking forward to following that next few weeks

I stayed at the Big Blue Hotel last weekend owned by the Pleasure Beach opened in 2003 my window looked onto the big dipper

Its about time you got yourself in there, well done

Great video Stephen! It was so nice meeting you 🙂me and Tasha will forever remember the Big One 🎢 hopefully meet you guys again in the future!

40 years not up the tower . 20 years to the Blackpool pleasure beach Stephen lol .great to see adventure me that a great colab

Hello again Stephen....Liverpool Kev here...Your enthusiastic and informative delivery brings a smile as usual...I am with you with the Alice ride..(I am 65) and that headless Alice may lead to a few sleepless moments haha...I remember crying so hard before the Ghost Train in New Brighton that the ride had to be stopped...only to discover my Dad was stuck in the carriage....He was furious!!....Take care as usual Stephen...Liverpool Kev

And about time you went in there Stephen, another good video, I’ll be watching next one after this. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍

It was interesting tour 😊

I agree it has to be that way . But they could charge a different lower price for walk in with no rides for people who don't like rides but want to see the other stuff there . The way it's done is a rip off . That's just my view as I'd love to go myself but my partner does not like rides and it's just not value for money if we both go. As she has pay full price for not even using the rides

This was brilliant Stephen 👏 I haven't been in there since 1990! I loved the Grand National and the flyers (think they were called something else back then, I call them the "space shuttles"😊. I have been on Alice in Wonderland but I am sure you used to sit in teacups years ago?? But maybe I dreamt that😂. Loved Foddies Funhouse too but that burned down.

Enjoyed the log flume,funhouse, and steeplechase when I was a kid

Just got me brew and ready to watch. I've been looking forward to this and hear your reviews😁

I think paying to get into Pleasure Beach is a good idea, keeps all the trouble out and people can have a great day with friends and family, I think possibly they could make entrance fee a bit less. We all luv a day at the Pleasure Beach u can have something to eat and recharge. Fantastic place to visit luv it. ☺️

Thanks for sharing

Nice to see you happy and excited to be there 😊 Great video, love seeing my hometown now I’m living in NI ❤

Love the roller coasters at pleasure Beach well done. I love the big 1 big dipper grans national and avaerlance

Pleasure beach mr C surelynot! Great stuff Steve all the time I been over I have been in a few times weather looks good Stephen great stuff has usual Mr C..too man sir .

Brilliant Video Stephen, great to see Darren with you.

Great video Stephen, I remember the Gold mine, I miss that ride.

Two channels I love to watch!!

great great video by both of you very very well done

Loved the video ❤

Great one ❤

Aw Stephen , you brought the memories flooding, its changed, but the layout is unmistakable, Happy times

Wonderful vlog though Steve..........but please don't do a Toilet Vlog with Random....i was so shocked x Just love your vlogs

Good Evening Steve and Darren. It was really Good to see you go into the Pleasure Beach Park. So many amasing rides you went on. The footage as usual very, very Good. Some of the Old Roller Coasters were the Best. I went on the Cork Screw when i went with my School on a School Trip to Alton Towers. These rides are Pure and Utter Adrenilin in seconds. I love these G-Force Rides Steve and Darren. Really makes you feel Incredible. Thank you very, very much for sharing your Fun and Adventure with me Steve and Darren. Top Quality Movie my Friend. 😃😃😃😃😃😃💯💯👍👍👍👍👍🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Thank you again for a fabulous video Stephen, I'd forgotten what the pleasure beach rides were like. Wish they had left the Wild Mouse I loved it all you could hear on that ride were screams! Sad you have to pay for entry now, sign of the times I guess. 😊😊😊

Hi Stephen loved this video been watching you for a while now I absolutely love blackpool cannot wait to get back there for a little holiday in 2024 keep the content coming in😊

Absolutely fabulous! As a native from Blackpool of a similar age who now lives down South I totally agree that the Grand National is definitely the best rollercoaster in the world! Many thanks for sharing it with us all ❤

Best of luck with everything there always enjoy your videos take care from Ireland 🇮🇪

Saw you at the Norbreck (Play Expo) yesterday. Wanted to say hello as your channel really helped me find my way around the Blackpool nightlife, but you were filming. Keep up the great work though!

Hello Stephen You finally got too go to the pleasure Beach after many years Good to see you going on the classic rides Thanks Stephen Take care

Brilliant Steve Blackpool pleasures I been on the big one 3 times ❤❤❤❤❤

Great video Stephen 👍

Last time I was there the Revolution still had Irn Bru branding. Icon looks like an amazing ride. Hoping to get back to BPB at some point in the next year or 2 and icon will definitely be top of my list to ride.

Hi Stephen thank you for another great video as always you are fearless you will go on anything well done omg i hope you soon dried off ive never been in the pleasure beach have a great evening xx

Last time I was on grand national it was so slow used to be so fast

Hi Stephen love the ice blast and grand national but my favourites the big one

I haven't been to the pleasure beach since we had to pay to go in, before that, I had been in almost every year. So that is me, my family and my children's family that haven't been in it since the entrance fee. I wrote to them about 3 or 4 years ago telling them that my wife and I don't do the rides and if we took the family, my wife and I would be spending our money in the arcades and cafes whilst the rest of the family go on the rides as that isn't for us now. So they would be making money that way as they own the arcades and cafes. So because we have to pay just to walk around, then they are now getting nothing as we all don't go in it as my family listen to us as parents and agree. the pleasure beach replied with a thank you and that the board of directors said that it was value for money and also for security and they wouldn't be changing it. (they are on probably £100k+ so would be a reasonable price for them out of their earnings)? So does that mean the security is based on anybody that has criminal intent, wouldn't be able to afford the entrance fee, and so we would all be safe? So, they have the right to do this, and we have the right to not go in and spend our money. When everyone is in, they have a captured audience but they disagreed with this also. So in the words of the TV show, Dragons Den...... It's not for me and I'm out. Look through the comments below and see how people haven't been there since the 90's, so it isn't just me. Just looked at their booking site and £50 Adults and £40 Children under 11 years old. Think I need to get the kids into child labour so they can pay for the tickets.

My absolute favourite place in Blackpool... I know it's pricey but I'd love to see more pleasure beach videos... good stuff.

Hi. I know that this is an older video but I found the best ride to go on after being on Valhalla was the Big One when it was a sunny day to help dry off.

thanks Stephen for another great video 🗼🎢🎡🎠

Loved this video and what a great idea to join forces with Adventure Me Darren, whose videos I really enjoy too. Thanks so much for pointing out where the Grand National tracks cross over, because it has mystified me for over 40 years.

Well done Stephen hope you enjoyed your day. We’re in Blackpool I hope we bump into you 😊

I'm with you Stephen, the Alice in Wonderland ride scared me too when I was a youngster. My mother took me on it and both of us were traumatised. Didn't go back on it for years.

A bit of nostalgia ❤

Hi mate loved the video I’m A subscriber to Adventure me Darren’s videos on blackpool very informative and interesting to his video on the old central station up to coral island was very nostalgic. It’s been over 20 years since I’ve been in pleasure beach and I visit blackpool every September for a long weekend. I understand the read for no free entry but I used to love to go in when dark and just watch the lights and soak up the atmosphere I loved the log flumes which I think infusions now is keep up the great posts always look forward to your posts Malcolm , Beith , North Ayrshire , Scotland

Alice in Wonderland was very impressive! 😒 When I was a child in the Fifties The Big Dipper was the big attraction. That was a grand video. Thanks for making it!

Bunny hops 😂😂😂 air time Steve 😂😂

I’ve never seen bpb so empty I went 2 week ago for the twilight riding there was 9.000 people there it was so good I love it there my fave theme park .I’ve never been on Valhalla tho one day I will I just don’t like getting wet .

All my favourite childhood / growing up rides seem to have been butchered or changed or removed from the park... as well as the memories of certain things also. Such as Monorail, River Caves not joining up at the Gold Mine and Café/Bar area, as well as Gold Mine changing to Wallace and Gromit, Black Hole (Waltzer's in the Dark), Haunted Swing, Noah's Ark, Trauma Towers, Space Invaders (then also version 2 also scrapped) Wild Mouse, Log Flumes, Beaver Creek rides etc. I also liked 'Rollercoaster' (now Nickelodeon Streak)

Definitely do not agree with non riders having to pay full price

Hi from CANADA.

Thoroughly enjoyed this video Stephen and adventure me with you. Was so waiting for you to do a pleasure beach videeo. Shame though we couldn’t see all your excitement and expressions, I can imagine you shouting away as you said on icon. Not been on pleasure beach for years, love rides but never was brave for many types, I always found still do Alice in wonderland weird and could easily play on one’s minds ! Me for one, you for two ! Lol …. Haha …. It was so interesting for you to explain and give details and how the rides were for yourselves. They do, yep fit so many rides in there. I’m not sure about paying for entrance, I used just go kiosk and. Buy book of tickets, but suppose it’s better for safety within the park and to protect everyone’s that not a case of unwanted folk drifting in ! All other parks I bet do same. So think business as doing things in uinform maybe ? I can imagine you going on rides in America. We’re awesome ? Can imagine they would be. Yet another superb video Stephen, legend !!!! Takecare. . Di xxx

Where have all the rides gone?

Take a shot each time he says folks 😂

Great vlog Valhalla is definitely a soaker

I am in stitches here I've never known anybody so scared to ride Alice in Wonderland😂

You two make absolutely fantastic videos

Brilliant video Stephen, really enjoyed it, and what a brave man you are for going on Valhalla with no water protection! Did you go on Wallace and Gromit? ( Previously it was the Goldmine) Glad you had a great day at the Pleasure Beach, and I'll definetely be checking out Darren's behind the scenes video.

I'm a miserable git..but would never ever pay to walk around when not going on rides.......

Yes used to love visiting the pleasure beach prices are way to high . Used to get in free to walk in and wonder around. Then they changed it and charged £6 to get in . Really miss going in but I’m not paying these crazy prices

Great video Steve , I went to the pleasure beach as a kid when you walked through for free , is the laughing king still there ?

I was at the Pleasure beach as well today with my young lad. Gutted I didn't bump into both of you.

Congrats Stephen for going to Blackpool Pleasure Beach for the first time after 20 years ago, also I’m glad to see Darren from AdventureMe joining you in the Blackpool Pleasure Beach video so thanks Stephen I enjoyed that video and Darren good on yea.