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Heroes & Villains => Tickets & Travel => Topic started by: Willie Anderson on August 09, 2010, 02:13:55 PM

Title: Blackpool Away
Post by: Willie Anderson on August 09, 2010, 02:13:55 PM: Its me burfday!

So bear me in mind if any spares/client codes are going at that time ;)

Hopefully it doesn't get shifted to a Monday night! >:(
Title: Re: Blackpool Away
Post by: SpenJC on August 09, 2010, 09:01:53 PM: Blackpool is a depressing place in Febuary trust me i've been there
Title: Re: Blackpool Away
Post by: Simon Ward on August 11, 2010, 09:59:30 AM: No cheap Travelodge rooms available either!
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Post by: Dave Cooper please on August 11, 2010, 10:58:31 AM: Bloody hell, if you can't find a cheap B&B in Blackpool you need shooting!
Title: Re: Blackpool Away
Post by: Pete3206 on August 16, 2010, 12:38:13 PM: I know a few people who have booked up already!!

True what Dave says though. I bet the B&B's are going to love Blackpool being in the PL. Or maybe not in some cases.
Title: Re: Blackpool Away
Post by: London Villan on August 16, 2010, 10:30:20 PM: It really is a hole though, it's like stepping back into 1974. I've had two nights out up there in recent years and can't recommend one single thing about the place. You'd be better off having a night out in Manchester!
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Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on August 17, 2010, 09:23:38 AM: I used to work for a company based in Preston, and every year the Xmas bash was at the Grand Hotel in Blackpool.

Imagine walking along the Promenade on a cold rainy late saturday morning in December because you have had to vacate the room, your head thumping because you didnt make it out the hotel bar till 4am. The smell of cheap fried food and the din of largely empty amusement arcades blarring out to make your hangover even worse. Candy floss, ice cream, laughing model clowns in those glass cases, those ridiculous machines where you try to get a teddy bear with a mechanised arm thingy. Overweight knuckle dragging families probably from Manchester, waddling along in their tacky catologue clothes and eying up tacky souvenirs of the bloody tower. You try to make it across to the beach, nearly getting run over by a bloody tram with a stupid clanging bell on it. You need to get some fresh sea air and clear your head, but are overcome by the smell of donkey shit strewn across the sands.

You think why am I in this state and in this stinking hell hole, I think i want to kill myself.

And the only reason you dont go and walk straight out on the North pier and jump off the end is because....things can always be worse, I could be stuck in Rhyl.
Title: Re: Blackpool Away
Post by: Simon Ward on August 18, 2010, 09:47:08 AM: Andy you paint such a great picture. Ever thought of being a travel writer?
Title: Re: Blackpool Away
Post by: H00513R on August 19, 2010, 12:51:52 AM: I would love to see Blackpool FC play in person though! If they get relegated I'll still be following them.