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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: General Discussion

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rob666 said:
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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.
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But that's yet another hassle for people who already have a lot of hassle in their life. And how do you prove you have such requirements? I don't know why anyone would argue in favour of the park here...

RicketyCricket said:
Sorry that wasn't aimed at you, just general input.

But that's leads us onto option 2: Go to Spoons.

Edit: @Alsty knows it.
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I approve of this idea!
 
I don't get why this conversation is still going on. You can't take food in. End of. If you don't want to eat the food in the park (which I don't) then go elsewhere and come back, it's not like its in the middle of nowhere.

It's no different to a lot of other parks around the world. If you're that determined to take a warm sandwich from home and you're travelling by public transport, stick it in a locker.
 
You can get a burger chips and a pint for like £8 in spoons.

And their pizzas are surprisingly really tasty. They also come with a pint meal deal.

Absolutely no brainer for us. Anyone who buys their on park food should get their heads checked.
 
siralgenon said:
It's no different to a lot of other parks around the world. If you're that determined to take a warm sandwich from home and you're travelling by public transport, stick it in a locker.
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I literally do not know of a single other park, globally, with this ridiculous policy.

Please do enlighten me.
 
D4n said:
I literally do not know of a single other park, globally, with this ridiculous policy.

Please do enlighten me.
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Most Waterparks don't let you take in food, Universal Parks, some Disney Parks, PortAventura Parks, Center Parcs Waterparks...
 
siralgenon said:
Most Waterparks don't let you take in food, Universal Parks, some Disney Parks, PortAventura Parks, Center Parcs Waterparks...
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When I went to Florida in April, the Disney parks were fine with my mum taking in food. I think Universal were the same when we last went. I think I have heard of other parks with picnic bans, though; did Alton briefly enforce one, or did I imagine that?
 
siralgenon said:
Most Waterparks don't let you take in food, Universal Parks, some Disney Parks, PortAventura Parks, Center Parcs Waterparks...
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I get the impression it’s more actual meals then snacks that the Florida parks don’t like you taking in. Where do you draw the line though? I’m here now, and this week most days we’ve taken in a bag full of hotel breakfast buffet stuff, drinks, even a massive bag of kettle chips that almost filled our rucksack. Every time they opened it, and handed us the bag back without issue. I’m talking both Universal parks, Sea World & Volcano Bay water park. Oh and Busch Gardens
 
I think Portaventura are the most North Korea-y when it comes to taking in your own food. There are routinely thorough bag searches to ensure you’re not trying to sneak a stray grape. Much more so than BPB.

Disney are pretty relaxed, their rules focus more on the size of what you’re bringing into the parks.
 
In Tokyo Disney Sea we struggled to get anything vegetarian for my girlfriend, after consulting the map we found out she could take something in under diatery requirements.

Cue getting to the queue and having our bags searched, her packaged salad bowl was being confiscated. Despite trying to show the attendant the policy on the website she was determined not to let us in. Not wanting my girlfriend to survive on Churros and popcorn all day (like me :p), I regrettably had to raise my voice and out of embarrassement we were let in with the salad.

Felt a bit guity about that one for a while.

Try raising your voice in Blackpool and they'll pop your nose :D
 
3 x passes bought.

Can't complain at £80, effectively its just 3 visits for your money back.

Bizarrely if you want a pass for the remainder of this season it will set you back £189 !!!!

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Ordered my 2020 season pass yesterday, £80 is fantastic value. Especially if I get to some of the partner parks again next year. Made it to Efteling and Liseberg this year and a days free entry can make a significant saving to trips. Even though I then spent money on pancakes in Poulles Kitchen.

Visited the park yesterday and it was reasonably busy, pity the big one was down but that was to be expected with the wind.
 
On an unrelated note, I just have a few random questions regarding Blackpool Pleasure Beach's wooden coasters that I wondered if any of the forum's more regular visitors to the park might know:
  • Have any of the woodies ever had their trains replaced? I'm aware that Grand National's were replaced following its fire in 2004, but I wasn't sure about the others. Even if not, I'm heavily presuming that some of the features on Dipper and Streak's trains aren't original, as I'm under the impression that few coasters featured any form of restraint when these were first built.
  • Speaking of trains, were Grand National's trains more akin to those on the other wooden coasters prior to the 2004 fire, as I'd say they more resemble the trains of something like Megafobia now? (Would make sense, I suppose, as I think the trains of both Grand National and Megafobia were manufactured by PTC.)
  • On a more subjective note, a lot of people say that Grand National went downhill as a ride experience following the fire due to modifications made by KumbaK (including the new trains); what exactly did KumbaK do that apparently ruined the ride?
Sorry if I'm bombarding you all a little; I was merely interested in finding out about the history of some of Blackpool's older rides, and as I only visited for the first time last year, I can't say I have the history with the park that some of you do!
 
All the coasters have had their trains replaced over the years.
Kumbak slowed operations down by about fifty percent, the slow train docking at offload, heavy, uncomfortable trains, and duff block control means four train ops are not much faster than 2.
I can remember all the coasters with no seatbelts.
Paid cash operations, even ticket operations, were over twice as fast as current ops.
Big One queue was a slow constant shuffle in the early days.
The big changes over the decades...
North park has lost about 90% of its attractions.
South park I can remember as sand dunes, a kid's playground, two trains, two woodies and a pony trail.
That was it.
 
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