Holidaying in Blackpool
Posted on August 8, 2011
There’s more to Blackpool than the Blackpool Tower! – Blackpool Hotels Guide
The Blackpool Tower has been a landmark on the Lancashire coast for almost a 100 years and it is a symbol of the Victorian determination to keep the town abreast of the times. Paris had its Eiffel Tower and Blackpool did not want to be out done
Today Blackpool is still the North’s most popular resort and millions return year after year. Easy to reach and fly to airports has meant that more southerners and people from abroad are now visiting Blackpool regularly.
Blackpool originally began as a small fishing village. In 1840 the seafront was only a single row of houses, but when the railway was introduced in 1846, the opening of the Central Station and the North pier in 1863 and the Winter Gardens in 1876 the face of Blackpool changed.
Modern Blackpool is probably best known for its Tower, a landmark which can be seen from Cumbria in the north to the hills of North Wales to the south west.
Blackpool has a lot to offer the visitor. The seaside full of buckets and spades, sticks of Blackpool rock, deckchairs in abundance to the Tower Circus which opened in 1894. Blackpool’s high wire artistes, stilt walkers, jugglers and acrobats still fill the circus everyday.
The pleasure beach is Blackpool’s flamboyant Blackpool funfair which has its roots in the traditional Lancashire Wakes Weeks fairgrounds. The Golden Mile part of the promenade sprang from the sideshows with their buskers and fortune tellers though hot dogs and candy floss have today replaced the freaks and fire eaters.
It is possible to walk the whole length of the seafront between Fleetwood in the north and Squires Gate in the south. During the autumn evenings, from September to late October the whole of the front is ablaze with more than 375,000 bulbs, laser beams, animated displays and tableaux.
Since Blackpool is a very popular destination for those that are looking to have a nice vacation on the Irish Sea coast, its hotels are competing to offer the best and most diverse facilities in order to meet any requirements
Other hotels (just a few though) are equipped with cinema rooms, saving you the trouble of getting out if you are too tired or if the unpredictable English weather is not at its best!
You can also use the gym, sauna and solarium facilities that a few Blackpool hotels have included in their services offer. If you are travelling with your dog or cat, you should know that some hotels accept to have animals as their guests. Hen or stag parties are also widely welcomed in many Blackpool hotels and some of them are even organizing themes events for you.
Although Blackpool is mostly regarded as a thrilling holiday destination, many companies are organizing their conferences in this resort as their employees can successfully mix business with pleasure. Therefore many hotels are offering conference facilities.
The Metropole – A 3 star hotel in Blackpool
The Metropole is currently undergoing refubishment from it’s 3 star status to 4 star. The Grand Metropole Blackpool Town Centre enjoys an exclusive location, as it is the only hotel in Blackpool to occupy a position on the famous Blackpool promenade. This unique location ensures that guests staying at the Metropole can enjoy fantastic uninterrupted views of the sea and promenade.
The Grand Metropole hotel is situated close to both Blackpool Tower and the North Pier, and is in the perfect place from which to enjoy all the major tourist attractions and entertainment venues in Blackpool.
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