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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: General Discussion

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John said:
I'm amazed they were caught at all given how much of a token gesture the security screening is at BPB.

I'm always surprised people keep quoting the "no space for people to picnic" argument. I can see why the park make that argument rather than openly say they want you to spend money at their F&B outlets, but people just seem to take the claim at face value for some reason. Someone eating a picnic by the fountains takes up the same space as someone eating food bought from the shipping containers there.
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But then you'll have the issue of people who've paid for food at those shipping containers potentially having nowhere to sit for their lunch.
 
John_P said:
But then you'll have the issue of people who've paid for food at those shipping containers potentially having nowhere to sit for their lunch.
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But if you confiscate / ban lunches then the people who would have brought a packed lunch are forced to buy lunch from the shipping containers...

So either way there are the same number of seats, the same number of people with lunches, and the same number of people missing out on seats.

So how does banning packed lunches help?
 
D4n said:
But if you confiscate / ban lunches then the people who would have brought a packed lunch are forced to buy lunch from the shipping containers...

So either way there are the same number of seats, the same number of people with lunches, and the same number of people missing out on seats.

So how does banning packed lunches help?
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Because picnics can be left in lockers outside the park or in the car, and people do actually do that, so it gives more space to people buying food on the premises.





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shakey said:
Because picnics can be left in lockers outside the park or in the car, and people do actually do that, so it gives more space to people buying food on the premises.


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Yes but the point is the majority don’t (humans usually take the path of least resistance). So it doesn’t matter whether people bring pack-up or buy food, the same number of people are seeking seating at around the same time.

This has nothing to do with eating space and everything to do with making money.
 
My own favourite place for a "picnic" in the rain...under the south pier!
You can even go for quite a long walk in the dry if the tide is out.
One final issue with picnics on the park is gulls.
All the catering staff do their best to keep the gulls moving, and discourage punters from feeding the gulls, they have become a real menace (but good fun to watch Bernard scaring them off).
There are now a couple of thousand gulls living around the south pier, including Jonathan Livingstone.
 
(The Blackpool Tower)
I wasn't sure where to mention this since The Tower doesn't have its own thread. For those of you wondering what was replacing the recently closed Jungle Jim's at The Blackpool Tower, I've just read a new book which is a available from the Tower for its 125th Birthday, and it states that the area previously used for Jungle Jim's has now been redeveloped into 'an exciting multi-use event space and showbar'. So in other words a conference room.
 
Big bar and stage with dance floor area actually.
Intended to be open daily, but used for private and corporate events as well.
Has been covered in detail in the Blackpool Gazette, but the naughty site has just blocked me unless I sign up.
Back to the Beach...
What if they match the Towers price and publicise it hard?
 
Ban on bringing food into the park. It is an absolute joke. Purely motivated by greed. If you say otherwise then your glasses are tinted with a coat of fanboyism. There is no reasonable way anyone can justify that. We don't live in North Korea and Pleasure Beach certainly isn't on the border of a continent where they have to stop certain foods coming in due to potential health issues.

Getting searched and food confiscated. It is almost laughable it is that stupid.
 
Round and round in circles.
The food isn't confiscated, you just can't take it in.
I don't agree with it, it is simply to make money, but you play by their rules or bugger off.
Picnic on the beach with a pass out, they have picnic tables by the entrance, or stick a sub roll down your trousers.
This has spun on the spot for five years at least.
And it isn't even closed season.
 
Dar said:
Blackpool - "you can't bring food in, we'd rather you bought ours"

Enthusiasts - "this isn't North Korea!"
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Hyperbole sure, but it still sucks. In fact, the whole security theatre sucks too. It's not hard to take food in. It makes life more difficult for people who have special dietary requirements as well.
 
speedy said:
Hyperbole sure, but it still sucks. In fact, the whole security theatre sucks too. It's not hard to take food in. It makes life more difficult for people who have special dietary requirements as well.
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Read back a few posts...
If you have special dietary requirements you can take your own food in.
Same circles, just getting smaller.
Edit...post 7052 to be precise...quoted t&c's by the nice Mr Jones.
 
rob666 said:
Round and round in circles.
The food isn't confiscated, you just can't take it in.
I don't agree with it, it is simply to make money, but you play by their rules or bugger off.
Picnic on the beach with a pass out, they have picnic tables by the entrance, or stick a sub roll down your trousers.
This has spun on the spot for five years at least.
And it isn't even closed season.
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No one is saying you don’t play by their rules. We are just saying their rules are not ok.

Not sure this is a complex ideology.
 
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