Blackpool’s illuminations  (1st September 2023 - 1st January 2024)

Will be launched with a spectacular festival this year. The annual Switch-On weekend will be produced in partnership with  To be decided

Blackpool’s Air Show 2023 (Sat 12th and Sun 13th August)

FREE Event Blackpool Promenade between North and Central piers. Jaw-dropping aerobatic stunts and fly-bys from some of the worlds most incredible aircraft including the Red Arrows

Blackpool’s World Fireworks Championship 2023 (Saturdays 16th and 30thSeptember, Friday 20th October)

FREE Event Blackpool Promenade between North and Central piers. Build up from 7.30pm fireworks 8.30pm

Blackpool Pleasure Beach

Blackpool Pleasure Beach is Britain’s Biggest Tourist Attraction whose mission it is to make adults feel like children again. The park is open from March until November, opening times do vary and please be aware that the times posted on this site are ESTIMATED. There are several ways you can enjoy the rides and attractions here at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. You can purchase an unlimited show & ride wristband at the park or online and don’t forget these unlimited show & ride wristbands entitle the bearer to free entrance into a choice of our award winning shows.

Blackpool Centre
With around seven miles of fun packed coastline, Blackpool is the entertainment capital of Europe, and home to the world famous Blackpool Tower with its ballroom, circus, adventure play centre, aquarium and ride to the top of the tower. The tower also contains the nerve-wracking Walk of Faith - a glass floor, 380 feet above the ground that allows an unrestricted view of the street below. The town centre also hosts a variety of well known shops. It was the Victorians who developed Blackpool into a mega-resort, and in the early twentieth century they flocked here in their thousands to enjoy the fantastic combination of sun, sand and sea with its blue flag awards.

Sea Life Centre
Over 2,000 amazing creatures , soak up the amazing view from the sea bed in the ocean tunnel.Located opposite Central Pier

Madame Tussauds
Step into the famous world of fame and celebrity surrounded by your favourite stars in the UK,s only Madame Tussauds outside London Located opposite Central Pier

Blackpool Water Park
The UK,s Largest Indoor Waterpark with over 18 slides and attractions Located by South Pier

Blackpool Tower

Blackpool Tower opened on 14th May 1894, with the aquarium existing as a stand a lone attraction from the late 1870's. The tower is 518ft 9inches tall, with the walk of faith at 380ft from street level. The Tower alone contains 2,493 tons of steel and 93 tons of cast iron. The building at the base contains 985 tons of steel and 259 tons of cast iron.
The Tower has a viewing platform at 380ft above the promenade and is reached by a lift or if you are a maintenance worker by 536 steps!
Not for the feint hearted is the 'Walk of Faith' glass floor, a two inch clear panel that looks straight down to the Promenade below.
The 'Walk of Faith' glass floor panel was placed at the Tower top in 1998. The glass floor weighs half a tonne and is made up of two sheets of laminated glass. The 'Walk of Faith' can withstand the weight equivalent to five baby elephants.
To reach the top viewing platform at approximately 450ft you can walk up 2 flights of 

stairs.
The present Ballroom was designed by Frank Matcham and opened in 1899. The Ballroom floor measures 120ft by 102ft. It comprises 30,602 separate blocks of mahogany, oak and walnut. The first Wurlitzer organ was installed in the Ballroom in 1929. It was replaced in 1935 with one to Reginald Dixon's specification. The first organ went to the Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens.
During the day visit the Ballroom to hear one of the famous organs being played. The Tower Ballroom is the traditional home of the mighty Wurlitzer Organ which rises up through the stage and complemented by the 3 Deck Wersi - the world's most advanced Blackpool Tower Ballroom - The Wurlitzer Organorgan, it includes over 600 sounds in the software, is touch screen sensitive and can create the sound of a complete orchestra.
The Tower Circus is positioned at the base of the tower, between its four legs. The circus first opened to the public on 14 May 1894 and has not missed a season since.

The present interior was designed by Frank Matcham and was completed in 1900.

The circus ring can be lowered into a pool of water and holds 42,000 gallons at a depth of up to 4 ft 6 inches, which allows for Grand Finales with Dancing Fountains. The Tower Circus is one of four left in the world that can do this.
During more than a century of entertainment, the world's greatest circus stars have paraded across its ring. The clown Charlie Cairoli appeared at the tower for 39 years. Britain's best-known ringmaster Norman Barrett worked the ring for 25 years.
Animals appeared in the circus until 1990.
It was planned to close the famous circus at the end of the 1990 season and replace it with an animatronic attraction. Public opinion and the fact the animatronics were not ready meant that the circus continued.
Today, the circus is produced and directed by Hungarian Laci Endresz. A live band (sometimes accompanied by Mooky the Clown) provides all the music for the show, often dynamically syncing with the performers' movements. The circus band play a variety of different songs, usually Latin for the acts. In the winter the circus stages a pantomime instead of the regular show.