Blackpool Pleasure Beach

Rude and obnoxious staff.

The park attracts a lot of real trash as well.

Any civilized person with manners would be well advised to avoid this awful park.

It's the Benidorm of theme parks in the UK.

amazing light work to see at the night.

do not go expensive. long ques to get on rides, food is expensive. please do not take young children they would get tied waiting to get on the rides i spent more than £400 on entrance and food for 3kids and 3 adults .one childrens ride we waited for more than 2 hours to get on . in total we went on 5 rides in 8 hours. when i complained they said there nothing they can do, the park is over crowded and very expensive .

Where should I start, £7 entrance fee if you want to walk around.

£20 wristband if pre booked online only to be robbed £3.50 for a hotdog, the rides are seemingly old, dull and boring, a vast upgrade is definitely needed.

The staff on every ride are just talking to each other, without a care of welfare for us visitors, for e.g big one, didn't check any carriages,safety is very low in this park

My daughter and boyfriend went to Blackpool for the weekend. Grand National on Saturday and pre booked tickets online for the pleasure beach on Sunday. Due to adverse weather conditions (high wind and two rides closed) they did not feel it safe to go. I have called the pleasure beach to request refund. Spoken to the call centre staff and two managers. They refused to refund the money. My daughter travels home tomorrow so would be unable to use rainy day pass offered. Given Blackpool is approximately four hours or so journey the likely hood of using half price ticket option on a Sunday before end of season is slim. Despite my asking why an attraction so big could not use discretion in the interests of good customer service and business management they still refused. I am now very unhappy and intend to take this further. Do not pre book tickets online as the saving is not worth it if you are unable to attend. The food is bad and poorly prepared. Eat all you want...the tickets do not include drinks i.e. Sprite, Cola etc have never experienced such shoddy service. This is an embarrassment to the UK. It's worth mentioning that the staff I spoke to most certainly had the no refund policy drummed into them.

Me and a friend came to Blackpool pleasure beach today for the first time in years. When I was younger I would come to the park every year for my birthday and always loved it however my time spent their today was disappointing in comparison.

We ordered our wristbands online for £15 each, which is perfectly reasonable for the time of year as it is still cold, rainy and gray. It was the price we paid inside the park that shocked us as we spent nearly £40 and came out with nothing to show for it, this included two waterproof ponchos for Valhalla (at £1.20 each for a thin bit of plastic that we might as well not have bought!), 2 hotdogs and 2 coffees and a go on the dance machine in the arcade (which only let us have half a go out of three just because we missed a few steps!!). Personally I don't see how they can charge so much for so little and belive that the quality of what we bought was terrible for what we paid. It left us wishing we had gone to Alton Towers as we believed Blackpool would be a cheaper day out, it turned out we wouldn't have spent much more at Alton Towers and would have got better quality rides!

As for the queueing we were waiting up to 45 minuets just to get on one ride, and we understand that they cannot help the volume of people wanting to get on the rides however for a lot of them they only had one carrage going at one time which clearly couldn't compensate for the amount of people on the park.

Getting into the park was also a problem for us as we were asked to hand our bags over to be searched as soon as we had received our wristbands, I understand that they need to do checks however being female it can be quite embarrassing when a male security guard looks in all pockets and comes across items that are better left private. It left us feeling awkward and slightly violated our privacy before we had even entered the park. This is something you wouldn't have to be faced with at parks such as Alton Towers or Thorpe Park and is unnecessary as Blackpool is such a mediocre park in comparison.

Overall our experience today was dull and dissapointing and after traveling a long time to get their I was really unhappy with the time spent standing around in the cold waiting for something exciting to happen.

On a positive note the rides we managed to get on were great and the service from some of the staff (not all!!) was good.

After visiting the park many times previously and never having any problems, we decided to revisit during my daughters week off from her Art and Design Foundation Diploma course. We were just heading through security when a young woman, who clearly wasn't trained well in customer relations, told us we couldn't bring our 'picnic' onto the park, which just consisted of a loaf of bread. She then told us that we could hire a locker for the day for £3.50 that's also ensured for £500 liability, for bloody sandwiches! We weren't even planning on eating the sandwiches on the park due to the severe weather conditions. Myself, wife and daughter decided to try and eat a full loaf of stodgy brown bread between the three of us in the wind and pouring rain outside the gate. This, in total, lost us around 1 and a half hours of time on the park and now we can never even look at a loaf of bread again, let alone eat one. As we finally got onto the park, much later than planned, my wife realised she had lost a priceless gold hooped earring. We spent over an hour looking for it to no avail and even went back to where we ate the sandwiches as we thought it may have blown off in the horrendous weather conditions. When we were going back through the park gates, and were gone less than 5 minutes, a chubby, bold man on security deliberately made a meal of searching through my daughters backpack even though he saw us leave. There was only one person throughout the whole of the park who was actually helpful and sympathetic. He was a tall young fellow also on security. We finally went to lost property, after he told us where it was, to ask them about the earring, and they were the least bit of help. BPB has caused an immense amount of unnecessary stress towards myself and family. We're completely boycotting BPB and if anyone else has any sense, they will do the same. It's completely overrated and overpriced.

First time visiting blackpool pleasure beach and will be most definitely be the last poor value for money and the staff are a joke!!!!

We went in August 2014. Spent too long queuing for rides (40 mins). Never will visit a theme park again in school holidays or summer. Also, very annoyed with their stupid policy of no pack lunches allowed and was forced to pay £4.50 for locker. Be warned - security guards search your bags and will not let you in if they find a packed lunch, so try hiding sandwiches in little pockets if you can!!

We all had a fantastic day out, didn't have to queue to long for the rides, not like a day out at Alton towers which i would not recommended to anybody. Great price, and at half the price of Alton towers. Highly recommended.