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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2025 Discussion

Very short and ever shortening. Even when wristbands came in there would regularly be 7 and 8pm closes, nowadays you’re lucky to get 6pm if it’s not a specific LNR day.

As for days gone by, the park’s licence covers lots and lots of park outlets (some which don’t even exist annymore) until 2am. The park then ran a little like Wiener Prater does today (although with less concessionaires) - there was no specific closing time, it would be determined based on crowds. As Rob says, 1am was not unheard of on busy days, but some smaller rides could close before that. You might for example have seen some rides in Beaver Creek and the Log Flume, Go Karts or Alpine Golf closing earlier.
 
Then it was tickets or cold cash.
The park wasn't gated at all, there used to be four (or five?) entrances.
Once a ride got quiet, it shut, simple as that.
Then there were the trollies of cash being dragged around with three or four security guys late on as well.
Completely different park.
 
Needs to be a count-up, but as well as the main North and South entrances (both of which were more open than they are now - either around Noah’s Ark or via the Star beer garden/via the train-themed shop by the train stop), there was also Watson Road and Bowl-a-Drome. I also have it in my head that there was another entrance from Ocean Boulevard, but I might be imagining that. Are we counting the monorail stop there too? I remember in the not-so-olden days you could buy your wristbands in those shops along Ocean Boulevard at least.

Am I missing any?
 
When it first opened, there was indeed the prom entrance on Ocean Boulevard, at the side of the go carts, that led into the back of the Bean Street food court...now FY4, by the fountains...from the prom side, after the arcade at the entrance, just before Pizza Hut, it is still there on the prom.
You could also walk in where the loos/car park entrance was next to the new flat, on Watson Rd.
Technically, could you call the top way in direct from the north car park...by Hard Luck Bears and my beloved Reel, separate from the Ark way in.
 
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