Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2025 Discussion

shakey said:

This may mean nothing, but at the moment there is no mention of the Hot Ice Show 2026 on the pleasure beach website, no option to buy a 2026 Hot Ice season pass and as far as I know there has been no announcement about the show for next year.

Could Hot Ice be cancelled in 2026 ?

It could just be a late announcement but it is unusual.

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Interesting. I'm sure there was the option to buy a Hot Ice 2026 season pass a few weeks ago - has it been pulled?

It appears to yes...although finding your way round the festering bucket of poop that is a website to find out is something else!

I highly doubt Hot Ice has been pulled, if it had been knowing pleasure beach there would of been a big song and dance about it being it's last show...….and there wasn't.

Because she would like it to come back?
Skint for now in challenging economic times...but bigger, better and so on in a few years.
Maybe the Arena is finally falling down, it is coming up to a hundred...

If the arena was to be demolished, would love to see a Liseberg-style outdoor arena replace it. Entice touring companies and artists to use the arena by having letting them take a higher percentage of ticket sales than the likes of Ticketmaster would let them, because the park can take profit on entry fees and secondary spend.

The Liverpool and Manchester music scenes are popping off at the moment, but the industry and independent venues are being killed by predatory monopolies like Ticketmaster. Pleasure Beach would be well-placed to take on the industry giants if they got the business model right.

If they got the business model right.
Big if.
No sign of Hot Ice passes or season 2026 anywhere.
No sign of the non rider season pass either...that did well didn't it?

Today Infusion hit its millionth ride cycle. 999,999 too many in my opinion.

Bert2theSpark said:

If the arena was to be demolished, would love to see a Liseberg-style outdoor arena replace it. Entice touring companies and artists to use the arena by having letting them take a higher percentage of ticket sales than the likes of Ticketmaster would let them, because the park can take profit on entry fees and secondary spend.

The Liverpool and Manchester music scenes are popping off at the moment, but the industry and independent venues are being killed by predatory monopolies like Ticketmaster. Pleasure Beach would be well-placed to take on the industry giants if they got the business model right.

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Whilst I like the intention, in reality the park already have a number of venues to host these sort of events in. I’d be shocked if the Arena was demolished, but even more shocked if it were replaced by another events venue.

Hot Ice Memorial Fountain

Just on the hot ice and arena conversation, I've actually thought for a while that what the park needs to have more year round and after park hours revenue is a new events space. For me when i think of entertainment in blackpool its comedy and music. Having an 'O2 Academy' or Mini Co-Op Live style arena on site - with the park partially open exclusively to events attendees with game stalls and drinks available etc would be great i think. Go and watch stand-up or a gig and have a few drinks, play arabian derby, a go on the dodgems etc before and/or after is what the park needs on week nights and even weekends and pack the park out. Ideally just north park, maxims, derby racer, launchpad open for it and even an upcharge on the events ticket perhaps or pay per ride during events nights. Maybe thats just me anyway, but it would incentivise the park to have more non-ride things to do again. Seriously want the dodgems back after visiting Port Aventura a few weeks ago and having a go on theirs just brought back memories of the superbowl dodgems with my dad as a child.

The problem is, Blackpool has more performance spaces than any other town in Britain, eight theatres in the north of town, and more performance space than most cities...including the Tower Headland for big outdoor events.
There are also two stages for events in the Casino building as well for performances of all kinds, no need for any more in the park.
There is no demand for another performance space, especially in the south part of town, which is absolutely dead between November and March anyway.
Pull the clapped out arena down, it is a fine site for a new decent attraction.

The Empress Ballroom in the Winter Gardens is one of my favourite gig venues in the country and they don't get enough concerts coming through.