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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2026 Discussion

Skyscraper said:
Pay-per ride prices have been revealed, on top of an £18 entry fee...

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What even is the point 🤦‍♂️
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Holy cow. So £23 to enter and ride the cheapest ride, £30 the most expensive.

£9 for Launch Pad is hilarious. It’s over in seconds. Basically £1 per second. Wow.

At least the old A/B/C/D ride tickets were simpler. There’s 8 different prices here. Crazy.

I wonder if this is one of those things that’s deliberately set up to fail, then they can say that they at least tried pay per ride options and there wasn’t enough take-up to continue it!
 
shakey said:
What would have made sense would have been £18 to get in that automatically gives you £18 in ride credits . These would of course be non refundable so if you choose not to use them then thats your decision.
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or you include a ticket to Icon and nick streak or something like that

the total is a bit more than £18 in total but that is quite common so they can make it as if it is a bargin (save £2 on paying for entry or something)
 
Yes the prices are steep, but you have to think who this ticket is aimed for.

Right, now, that Flex pass + single ride on Big One is the cheapest way to ride that ride. May not necessarily be the best value, but it is the cheapest.

In terms of value, the more extra rides you pay for the worse the value gets compared to an unlimited eTicket.

I can see this being perfect for a grandparent who goes with a grandchild and then decides to take a ride on Ghost Train or Alice etc.

It's not meant for the majority of people on here.
 
They way I look at its these rides are quality Icon, Big One, Wallace and Gromit are great long rides.

You look at Olympia Looping as closest example that is £12 to ride and great ride at that
 
Comparing a poor Arrow hyper to one of the greatest touring coasters of all time is pretty much insulting.

As was discussed on the Discord last night, is it the park actually just trying to make the POP price seem more reasonable rather than any effort to increase footfall.
 
Poisson said:
Comparing a poor Arrow hyper to one of the greatest touring coasters of all time is pretty much insulting.

As was discussed on the Discord last night, is it the park actually just trying to make the POP price seem more reasonable rather than any effort to increase footfall.
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Wouldn't call Big One poor, the first drop is demented, has some cool views, and can have some mild Airtime.

And sense of speed is cool
 
rctneil said:
Yes the prices are steep, but you have to think who this ticket is aimed for.

Right, now, that Flex pass + single ride on Big One is the cheapest way to ride that ride. May not necessarily be the best value, but it is the cheapest.

In terms of value, the more extra rides you pay for the worse the value gets compared to an unlimited eTicket.

I can see this being perfect for a grandparent who goes with a grandchild and then decides to take a ride on Ghost Train or Alice etc.

It's not meant for the majority of people on here.
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but you are still paying £28 for just one ride of the ghost train or alice, you could just bump that up by £2 and get tickets for saturday the 25th of april which allows you to get on all of the rides,

also Flex pass and single ride, is break even on a lot of days for Icon and the big one (both costing £12, with £18 flex pass that makes £30 total, the same price as a ticket on some days)

why on earth would anyone try to save just £2 asnd limit themselves to one ride.

at the least they should make more stuff included in the £18, (a couple dark rides, nickolodean land, etc) as £18 to just walk round a half abandoned themepark is ludicras.

the only reason I think this exists is to price anchor the POP tickets, making them seem like more of a bargin rarther than trying to apeal to lower cost audiences.

on a side note, with the rising fuel costs (likely meaning cost of air travel is going to go up), continued cost of living crysis and inflation (again) I could easily see more people doing a staycation again, and trying to find cheaper places to go on holiday this could have a boost to blackpool and now would be a perfect time for a lower cost good value for money alternative
 
flyingguitar said:
but you are still paying £28 for just one ride of the ghost train or alice, you could just bump that up by £2 and get tickets for saturday the 25th of april which allows you to get on all of the rides,

also Flex pass and single ride, is break even on a lot of days for Icon and the big one (both costing £12, with £18 flex pass that makes £30 total, the same price as a ticket on some days)

why on earth would anyone try to save just £2 asnd limit themselves to one ride.

at the least they should make more stuff included in the £18, (a couple dark rides, nickolodean land, etc) as £18 to just walk round a half abandoned themepark is ludicras.

the only reason I think this exists is to price anchor the POP tickets, making them seem like more of a bargin rarther than trying to apeal to lower cost audiences.

on a side note, with the rising fuel costs (likely meaning cost of air travel is going to go up), continued cost of living crysis and inflation (again) I could easily see more people doing a staycation again, and trying to find cheaper places to go on holiday this could have a boost to blackpool and now would be a perfect time for a lower cost good value for money alternative
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Oh I totally agree. I said that was the cheapest option, not the best value.
 
As somebody else pointed out it feels like stubbornness to me and a token effort to say she tried something new knowing full well it wont work.

Those prices are a joke. Nobody is going to pay £28 to get on one ride.

She really doesnt deserve the loyal fanbase they have. I dont think Id want her running a coffee shop let alone a theme park.
 
venny said:
I’m not sure what people were expecting the prices to be. This is just a continuation of the previous ticket system that everyone seems to have forgotten existed until 2020.

Icon was £9 pre-Covid. That was eight years ago.
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Yes, except they have now made it even worse value. Pre COVID it was £6 to get in. Rising to £10 in 2018 and up to £9 a ride. Compared to £18 to get in now and up to £12 a ride.

We were never going to get a viable hybrid system because Mandy doesn't want that . So why they decided to offer a system that is of almost no use to anyone is beyond me. Just rip out the scanners , go POP and save all the faffing getting on the rides.
 
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