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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2026 Discussion

Ten years or so age they had the entry fee but they also had an entry + any ride ticket for about £10, using that made the entry fee just a few £ and meant anyone who wanted to go on 2 or 3 other rides had a genuine alternative to a wristband.

This is... not that.
 
The “Big One Ticket”, as I seem to remember it being called, allowed you entry and a ride on Big One or any other single ride. That was £15 around 2015, and when park entry was £5-6.

It’s more than ten years on. The equivalent ticket will now cost you around £30 based on what we know. Adjusted just for base inflation the 2015 Big One ticket would be £21 now. That ignores the big jump we saw from the £5 entry fee.

And so I ask again. Based on everything we know about Pleasure Beach, including its distaste for cannibalising the wristband market, did anyone honestly believe this new ticketing system was going to be cheaper?
 
venny said:
And so I ask again. Based on everything we know about Pleasure Beach, including its distaste for cannibalising the wristband market, did anyone honestly believe this new ticketing system was going to be cheaper?
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No we we didn't expect a reasonable system. We all knew it was going to be utterly ridiculous. But that doesn't mean we can't all still whinge about it :)
 
venny said:
And so I ask again. Based on everything we know about Pleasure Beach, including its distaste for cannibalising the wristband market, did anyone honestly believe this new ticketing system was going to be cheaper?
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I would agree with @shakey i didnt expect a reasonably priced ticket but at the very least i expected it to make sense.

I am not too bothered about the price of a ride ticket, it is the non rider pass that is stupid.

As you said in 2015 a non rider pass was £5, adjusted for inflation that is £7 today, but now the price is £18, what changes have been made to allow a £11 hike.

If it was £7 the total would be £19, expensive but a price that makes sense... £30 Is insane
 
The flex pass works if you turn up on the day and don't want to pay £60 to enter the park. Probably still an argument the £18 entry cost should be then be used towards paying for rides though.

Booked my VIP pass day for Aviktas as well
 
Secret Weapon said:
It'd be funny (ish) if the punchline was that they were too short to ride

(I think Enso actually has the highest height restriction in the country, although I might be wrong)
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I finally got around to researching the Britain's Got Talent episode* from Blackpool, and I correctly predicted the joke that Ant & Dec might be too short to ride Icon - see screenshot below

(*Thankfully, I didn't have to watch the entire episode, as the Icon segment was aired within the first 90 seconds or so)

Given that the show is almost 20 years old, I'm surprised that they haven't already used this joke in a prior episode filmed in Blackpool - unless they have, but they simply hope (perhaps correctly) that nobody will remember it (Alan Sugar has begun recycling his "chequebooks" joke from the first series of The Apprentice)

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Blackpool e-mailed me earlier today and told me that, as a buyer of an Aviktas VIP Preview ticket, I am also eligible for a free ticket to preview new Avitkas merchandise

Unfortunately, the merchandise will be previewed on the second Aviktas preview date of 13th May (not the initial preview date of 10th May) and so I will probably be unable to attend

They are also unveiling new merchandise which will celebrate the park's 130th anniversary as well
 
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After a period of planned maintenance this week, Launch Pad is now back at full pressure.

Meanwhile, a lot of work continues at Aviktas - a lot of decorative elements have gone in this week, including a boundary fence. The ramp past River Caves is closed to guests now, and I suspect it won't reopen for a while as the construction hoarding along it has been removed.
 
Great to see park hours extended by an hour to 6PM today, perfect weather for it


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I'd be annoyed if I left the park at 5 p.m., and didn't realise that it would be open for another hour!*

Although I suppose you may suspect, as people would still be joining the queues etc; from memory, I think this happened with Hyperia on one of my visits in 2024, as I think it stayed open for 30 minutes later than advertised (with no announcement made) due to it having opened late in the morning (the other rides all closed on time, though).

I hope that Blackpool at least had a notice board and/or staff near the exits telling people that the park would be open later than usual, but I'm guessing that there wouldn't have been enough time to arrange this.

(*This happened to me on the Toxicator opening day, as - unbeknownst to me at the time - it actually reopened later in the evening, and I know that some of the other vloggers also made the same mistake of leaving early)
 
Secret Weapon said:
How is it announced?

Do they make a tannoy announcement in the park and/or e-mail people?

Or do they not actually officially announce anything, but simply keep the rides open for an hour longer?
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They changed the closing time posted at the entrance to each ride, and the closing time is displayed on the queue times section of the app.

I believe it was changed over at around 3pm yesterday, but like with a few weeks ago, few guests seemed to know. Big One closed slightly earlier (to accommodate Walk the Big One) and the station was dead
 
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