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We’ve got some lovely places (even if the weather is often poor) but what’s the the absolute worst you’ve been to and why?
My top 3 (in no particular order):
1. Margate - utter dive when I last went (although have heard it’s being done up). Went downhill after Benbon (sp?) brothers shut.
2. Southend - home of the Essex boys films (enough said).
3. Blackpool - have had some good nights out there but it’s full of scratters (have been told to avoid Glasgow week!) |
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By *usie pTV/TS
over a year ago
taunton |
Where are the nice ones, most seem to be pretty grotty but only to be expected I suppose when an awful lot of english folk don't seem to care what sort of a mess they leave everywhere. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Blackpool - the Waterloo, Club Play and Infusion are the only reasons I visit
Morecambe - we had caravan holidays there when I was little
Rhyl - we went on holiday there once for a change and came home early it was so shite |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Great Yarmouth - vile place. If that's the "great", I should hate to go to Shite Yarmouth. |
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Blackpool,
Its no1 on my global top 10 list of Shiteholes, |
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"Blackpool,
Its no1 on my global top 10 list of Shiteholes, "
Whoooah, global??? |
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"Blackpool,
Its no1 on my global top 10 list of Shiteholes,
Whoooah, global??? "
Lodi in Jersey might come close,, but i think Blackpools Dog Shit problems seal the deal. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Blackpool Blackpool Skegness |
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Blackpool, Morecambe, Skegness and Cleethorpes. All dire.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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1 Clacton-On-Sea obviously lol
2 Walton on Naize
3 St Oysphs
4 Blackpool
5 Southend  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Skegness |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I'll add San Antonio, Ibiza. I have been there fore Hard Rock Hell a few times but all the decent bars have shut since covid and you're left with crap bars selling crap ale with really godawful shite noise and full of brain dead pissheads. This is Blackpool in the sun"
Foam parties in Ibiza were epic though  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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St Tropez  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Lythem st annes i think its called |
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over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Wouldn't call it seaside resort...but it's by the coast - newton stewart.
It's dark, with just one main street really with nothing much happening and it rains all the time & gets battered by the irish sea.
Brit Ekland called it the worst place she's been to in her life, after filming some of "the wicker man" there.
-I actually think she's being kind.
Although I love scotland on the whole.
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By *usie pTV/TS
over a year ago
taunton |
I think nearly everyone of the well known places are much the same, have to seek out quieter less known spots. I was walking through Torquay a while ago and thought fook me if this is the english riviera what hope is there. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Torquay |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Prestatyn shit beach and the whole place is boring. |
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I quite like Blackpool but then I enjoy noise, bright lights and seediness |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
I was dissatisfied with Scarborough. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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See I love going to southend and Scarborough. |
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Haven't been to a British seaside resort in years. |
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Sorry Blackpool though I enjoyed your tower the rest was pretty terrible. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We’ve got some lovely places (even if the weather is often poor) but what’s the the absolute worst you’ve been to and why?
My top 3 (in no particular order):
1. Margate - utter dive when I last went (although have heard it’s being done up). Went downhill after Benbon (sp?) brothers shut.
2. Southend - home of the Essex boys films (enough said).
3. Blackpool - have had some good nights out there but it’s full of scratters (have been told to avoid Glasgow week!) "
What ye trying to say about us from glasgow?? |
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Yay Blackpool is up on a list of shitholes lol. Yeah is it a shithole in town I’ll agree |
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Don't tend to venture to British seaside resorts- but did end up in Southend with work....what the hell level of shitsville is that place? 
Its only saving grace was i found a lovely family run Italian about a 15 minute walk from the front |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Great Yarmouth , pretty much most really |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Brighton
Massively overrated and smells of raw sewage that has been pumped freely into the sea. |
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By *avexxMan
over a year ago
cheshire |
rhyl and blackpool shit holes |
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"Great Yarmouth , pretty much most really "
Awww I go to Yarmouth every year and do the exact same thing with the exact same people lol girly weekend tradition it is a bit shit but as long as they still do href dripping chips on the market I'm happy haha |
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With the Truss voting to continue raw sewage discharges, they're all likely to continue to be shitholes for a long time |
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"I quite like Blackpool but then I enjoy noise, bright lights and seediness"
It's the ultimate people watching town!
For me Morecambe is the #1 shit hole |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Birmingham. The beach is miles away. |
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"I quite like Blackpool but then I enjoy noise, bright lights and seediness
It's the ultimate people watching town!
For me Morecambe is the #1 shit hole "
Morecambe used to be nice when I was a child. I loved going to Happy Mount Park with my Grandparents, who were from the area  |
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over a year ago
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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago
Not all that North of North London |
On the Welsh coast, Tywyn, Fairbourne and Barmouth. All popular with brummies, all thoroughly grim.
Surrounded by stunning countryside though si not all bad |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"On the Welsh coast, Tywyn, Fairbourne and Barmouth. All popular with brummies, all thoroughly grim.
Surrounded by stunning countryside though si not all bad"
Rhyl's not too bad, if you drive straight through it. |
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"Bognor"
Bognor is posh compared with Blackpool or Great Yarmouth |
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Ha ha! C Blackpool listed alot! going with the sister for 4 days on a coach trip in Oct! Never been b 4! There is a trip to Skipton on one-of the days and one to lake district last day we have a free day in Blackpool! But no doubt shall have a lovely time x |
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"On the Welsh coast, Tywyn, Fairbourne and Barmouth. All popular with brummies, all thoroughly grim.
Surrounded by stunning countryside though si not all bad"
We stayed near Tal-y-bont (a bit further north than Barmouth) when I was a child. I was about 12. Had a marvellous holiday, but we didn't really go to Barmouth that I recall, other than for some shopping. |
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You've probably polarised and trounced the majority of the Fab populace on the back of this thread.  
Anyway, you're all wrong: Manchester is the worst 'seaside resort'. |
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Worst place 1st
1 Blackpool
2 Ostia -Rome Italy
3 Great Yarmouth
I’m sure there’s more but none are natural all are fkd up by us. |
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"Ha ha! C Blackpool listed alot! going with the sister for 4 days on a coach trip in Oct! Never been b 4! There is a trip to Skipton on one-of the days and one to lake district last day we have a free day in Blackpool! But no doubt shall have a lovely time x"
Best time to see it is in the dark! |
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By *arcosaMan
over a year ago
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Without doubt it has to be Margate. I went there a couple of years ago with my wife and daughter. It'd been years since I'd been there last and remember loving it as a kid.
We were met upon leaving the station by a gang of fighting alcoholics. Nice. Walking down to the beach it was dirty and littered. So was the beach. The front was full of closed and boarded up shops. The funland theme park was enormously expensive.
I can't be arsed to write much more but, on our way home, we were treated to two junkies fighting over money.
Margate is a shithole. It gives shitholes a bad name. |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
1950's Original |
Blackpool.
Called about 5 years back ,needle exchange van ( with "NEEDLE EXCHANGE clearly written on side)on main Street in town centre ...in holiday period..not far from Blackpool North train station |
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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago
Not all that North of North London |
"On the Welsh coast, Tywyn, Fairbourne and Barmouth. All popular with brummies, all thoroughly grim.
Surrounded by stunning countryside though si not all bad
We stayed near Tal-y-bont (a bit further north than Barmouth) when I was a child. I was about 12. Had a marvellous holiday, but we didn't really go to Barmouth that I recall, other than for some shopping. "
Tal y bont is lovely, I mean the whole area is, I love snowdonia national park but those 3 towns are grim! |
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Cleverleys
Fleetwood
Bridlington
I hear Rhyl is bad but not been for years and no chance I’ll be going back |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Rhyl
Margate
Cleethorpes
Southport
Burnham-on-Sea
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
Forum Mod Cheeseville, Somerset |
"Rhyl
Margate
Cleethorpes
Southport
Burnham-on-Sea
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Burnham isn't great but nowhere near as bad as Weston-Super-Mud
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Only an idiot would visit Margate when St.Mildreds bay is 10 minutes walk up the coast |
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Sorry to my friends who live there but it's Rhyl |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
"Only an idiot would visit Margate when St.Mildreds bay is 10 minutes walk up the coast"
Didn't Del-Boy arrange a beano at Margate? |
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Benidorm. Well it might as well be British. |
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I'm amazed Rhyl hasn't got more votes, it made Skeg feel like the Riviera  |
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Scarborough - only visited the place as the Luverpool to Scarborough fun ride finished there.
Rhyll - went once, never going again.
Blackpool - its a dive. |
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Prestatyn has a blue flag beach and its a nuce little town xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Rhyl
Margate
Cleethorpes
Southport
Burnham-on-Sea
Burnham isn't great but nowhere near as bad as Weston-Super-Mud
A"
The only reason Weston is better than Burnham is it's got a longer pier |
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Redcar only good thing about the place was the couples that would let you watch them fucking in the sand dunes  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Blackpool.
Called about 5 years back ,needle exchange van ( with "NEEDLE EXCHANGE clearly written on side)on main Street in town centre ...in holiday period..not far from Blackpool North train station "
Better than folk shoving sharps into the beach  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Went to Blackpool for the day the other Sat. Absolute shithole. Looks worse than ever, not to mention the people walking the streets. Apologies if you live there : |
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Blackpool. Crap beach and everything expensive.
Blackpool tower was shit. |
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Another one for Morecambe... absolute dump of a place and you even have to pay to enter parts of the kids play park.
Not a fan of Blackpool either, ripoff.
My favourite beach is actually a local one, Roker, Sunderland. Lovely beach, lots of nice little places in the seafront to get an icecream or something to eat, a couple of playparks nearby and you often see dolphins and seals. |
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Lots of Blackpool's. I quite like Blackpool, it's shit, but a kind of comforting shit. Like, so bad it's good. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I quite like Blackpool but then I enjoy noise, bright lights and seediness"
Me too! I’m staying there for a month from next month. It’s a lot of fun and sooo cheap! |
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"Another one for Morecambe... absolute dump of a place and you even have to pay to enter parts of the kids play park.
Not a fan of Blackpool either, ripoff.
My favourite beach is actually a local one, Roker, Sunderland. Lovely beach, lots of nice little places in the seafront to get an icecream or something to eat, a couple of playparks nearby and you often see dolphins and seals."
If you mean Happy Mount Park in Morecambe, the things like the swing boats, trampolines, crazy golf etc has always been at a cost. It's local amusement providers who run these things, not the council. |
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Blackpool. The absolute opposite is next door. St Annes is lovely. |
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By *opinovMan
over a year ago
Point Nemo, Cumbria |
Harrogate - I couldn't find the fucking beach anywhere.  |
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Mablethorpe…..a shitter smaller Skegvegas with the Butlins rewind weekenders
You may now close the thread..! |
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Surprised nobody has mentioned Barry island yet … |
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I went to Wigan Pier and I couldn't even see the sea... |
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"I quite like Blackpool but then I enjoy noise, bright lights and seediness
Me too! I’m staying there for a month from next month. It’s a lot of fun and sooo cheap! "
I'm going for a week in October. I honestly can't wait. I'm already planning what we can do and know a week just won't be long enough. |
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By *ild_oatsMan
over a year ago
the land of saints & sinners |
It would have to be Seascale…..
The fact that most places have closed down there and fabulous views of the Sellafield Nuclear Powerstation make this a top contender |
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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago
Not all that North of North London |
"Rhyl
Margate
Cleethorpes
Southport
Burnham-on-Sea
Burnham isn't great but nowhere near as bad as Weston-Super-Mud
A"
Oh I dunno, the drive out of Burnham to walk up to Brean Down Fort, that road is just depressing! |
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"It would have to be Seascale…..
The fact that most places have closed down there and fabulous views of the Sellafield Nuclear Powerstation make this a top contender "
I spent a night in Whitehaven about 20 years ago and I have never wanted to return |
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Southend. Many years ago, I booked a hotel on the sea front to attend a friend's 21st birthday celebrations. When I got to the hotel, I realised it was being used as a "halfway house" for single mothers and their kids, and their kids had total control of the place - couldn't get a decent night's sleep! |
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"Southend. Many years ago, I booked a hotel on the sea front to attend a friend's 21st birthday celebrations. When I got to the hotel, I realised it was being used as a "halfway house" for single mothers and their kids, and their kids had total control of the place - couldn't get a decent night's sleep!"
If that’s the travelodge- it’s not changed. I turned up to a woman sat outside on the floor, on her phone, smoking right next to the air intake vent- with about 5 feral kids running in and out of the hotel |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I quite like Blackpool but then I enjoy noise, bright lights and seediness
Me too! I’m staying there for a month from next month. It’s a lot of fun and sooo cheap!
I'm going for a week in October. I honestly can't wait. I'm already planning what we can do and know a week just won't be long enough."
Yep there’s so much to do there and lytham next door is lovely too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Burnham - Somerset shite hole. Just passed through and stopped to look. |
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"Rhyl
Margate
Cleethorpes
Southport
Burnham-on-Sea
Burnham isn't great but nowhere near as bad as Weston-Super-Mud
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Burnham on sea the last resort |
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Jaywick ! Put it in google and look at images ... |
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I’d say Blackpool hasn’t had much of a refresh - the hotels on the front all look dated and run down.
We drove through Rhyl yesterday and at least you can see they are investing and trying to update but it’s pretty soulless.
Whilst Skegness gets a lot of stick, it’s another seaside town that’s been updated quite a bit too so they are trying to move with the times.
Cleethorpes hasn’t got much there at all other than the beach.
On the flip side, we went to Llandudno yesterday and it’s seafront and pier are fantastic - the hotels on the front have all been modernised and it looks impressive - still rubbish behind but the front looks great
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It has to be Blackpool, an utter shit hole. Not one redeeming feature.
Morecambe is bad, Rhyl is terrible and Torquay awful. |
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By *anSMan
over a year ago
Shrewsbury |
I’ve been to Blackpool a number of times, not through choice, if I had any I wouldn’t have gone there at all..
Barmouth on the Welsh coast is awful too lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Blackpool. Its a cesspit of dirty nappies, syringes and rubbish everywhere. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Rhyl.
The list of what it once had is extensive.
Sky tower
Illuminations
Monorail
Fairground
pier
pavillion theatre
Indoor surfing pool
Ornamental Rock Gardens
outdoor swimming pool
boating pool
Pentre Bach model village
Floral Hall
Coliseum theatre,
All these things are now gone.
Mostly replaced with concrete.
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By *lueFireCouple
over a year ago
just somewhere around here |
"1 Clacton-On-Sea obviously lol
2 Walton on Naize
3 St Oysphs
4 Blackpool
5 Southend "
St Osyths....is an absolute fuck hole went there once...went in to a pub on the caravan park all full of sunburned skinheads with tattoos.. that was just the women
Seriously it's the only place I have genuinely thought "I'm going to die in here" |
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"Jaywick ! Put it in google and look at images ..."
100% this!
The place is comically awful.
Granted, looking out on the majesty of the sea view is beautiful but then you turn back and look at the town and…..Jesus H Christ! |
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I think it depends on the weather. If warm and sunny anywhere can be decent! |
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Weston Super Mare
Margate
Ifracombe |
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What about Watchet?It's on the coast and really awful!
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"On the Welsh coast, Tywyn, Fairbourne and Barmouth. All popular with brummies, all thoroughly grim.
Surrounded by stunning countryside though si not all bad"
The problem with those towns is all the bloody tourists ruin them! |
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Methinks many people do not appreciate the seaside towns for what they truly are.
If one wants to live the highlife then a typical seaside town in=s not the place to go.
The Georgian architecture of Margate is amazing.
Blackpool has mostly Victorian architecture, and many curios. Away from the South Prom things are nicer.
The beach at Lowestoft is wonderful sand.
Cleethorpes is being regenerated.
Great Yarmouth is indeed a shit hole |
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"It would have to be Seascale…..
The fact that most places have closed down there and fabulous views of the Sellafield Nuclear Powerstation make this a top contender "
One of my mates went on his Easter holidays to Seascale, knowing exactly what it's like |
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"I went to Wigan Pier and I couldn't even see the sea..."
It's closed now! |
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Margate (admittedly not been for a while) & Blackpool
Down my way it's perranporth - the town is creepy as fuck & the beach wouldn't make my top 50 of Cornish beaches - the place is overrated beyond belief! |
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"Margate (admittedly not been for a while) & Blackpool
Down my way it's perranporth - the town is creepy as fuck & the beach wouldn't make my top 50 of Cornish beaches - the place is overrated beyond belief!"
To be fair there's a few places in Cornwall you can say that about. |
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Blackpool
Needed an umbrella to shelter from the seagull shit! |
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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago
Redhill |
Not really a resort but Holyhead is the biggest hovel I’ve ever been to…. |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
1950's Original |
"I went to Wigan Pier and I couldn't even see the sea...
It's closed now!"
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The sea at Exmouth is still open I am told  |
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"Rhyl.
The list of what it once had is extensive.
Sky tower
Illuminations
Monorail
Fairground
pier
pavillion theatre
Indoor surfing pool
Ornamental Rock Gardens
outdoor swimming pool
boating pool
Pentre Bach model village
Floral Hall
Coliseum theatre,
All these things are now gone.
Mostly replaced with concrete.
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Has the little railway around the lake at west end gone as well...?
Even the football club died |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Has the little railway around the lake at west end gone as well...?
No. It was the first tourist steam railway ever in Wales, or the UK or somewhere.
It's still chuffing away.
Round the only salt water man made lake in North Wales.
It's quite rare and one of the only jewels left in the crown of Rhyl outside of Spoons. Please don't tell the local council, they're itching to shut it down.
Also best if we don't talk about the Belgian refugees memorial gardens. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Andover. Wasn’t even any fucking seaside. |
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"I think it depends on the weather. If warm and sunny anywhere can be decent!"
Jaywick wouldn’t be decent even if it was situated on the Costa del Sol it’s a shithole |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Jaywick is where the dodgy guys get arrested and Rhyl is where they get resettled |
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Scarborough it’s proper minging |
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By *uke OzadeMan
over a year ago
Ho Chi Minge City |
Slough…..proper shithole and didn’t even have the sea! |
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By *ragsterMan
over a year ago
Blackburn |
My top 3 shitholes and in no particular order are:
Blackpool
Blackpool
Blackpool
Dear God I hate the place..seems to attract the worst of Britain..go figure.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Without a doubt in our minds it's Blackpool by a mile.. some lovely people but what a shit hole. |
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over a year ago
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Bridlington it’s just a dump!!
What is there…Nothing
All the buildings are eyesores covered in pigeon shit!
There’s no good shops, no good food outlets, no nice pubs
It does have a filthy stinking oil filled harbour, with no points of interest in or on it.
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By *inx.x3Woman
over a year ago
Bath |
Blackpool. It’s a complete dump. |
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As a Torquay resident I'm duty bound to ask why Paignton isn't on this thread |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I hate it here in Liverpool me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Another one for Morecambe... absolute dump of a place and you even have to pay to enter parts of the kids play park.
Not a fan of Blackpool either, ripoff.
My favourite beach is actually a local one, Roker, Sunderland. Lovely beach, lots of nice little places in the seafront to get an icecream or something to eat, a couple of playparks nearby and you often see dolphins and seals."
I prefer Seaburn now but Roker is still an amazing beach. |
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I'm about 20 mins from Skegvegas.
It really is a shith@le |
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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago
Market Harborough/ Kettering |
I went to Skegness on my motorbike in the spring this year. I'd not been there for about 35 years. After avoiding a collision with two spaced out dickheads on the seafront I decided to get the hell out of their! What a shit hole !! |
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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago
Market Harborough/ Kettering |
"As a Torquay resident I'm duty bound to ask why Paignton isn't on this thread "
Have to say that the seafront at Torquay is quite nice, get a road back in to the town and OMG ! What a dump !! |
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"Blackpool,
Its no1 on my global top 10 list of Shiteholes,
Whoooah, global??? Lodi in Jersey might come close,, but i think Blackpools Dog Shit problems seal the deal. "
CCR sang about being stuck in Lodi, Blackpool didn't even get that far. |
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Whoooah, global??? Lodi in Jersey might come close,, but i think Blackpools Dog Shit problems seal the deal. "
Please clarify that you meant 'New Jersey'.
I don't want you giving my beautiful home island a bad name! |
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By *imbobaMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
Surprised no one has mentioned Whitley Bay. Loved there for a while as a kid and thought is was great. Went back 10 years later and NOoooo |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Whitstable - i live there.
DFL’s and second home owners are ruining the place. |
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Love the way most people are saying blackpool.bet where you live has rough areas as well especially Blackburn it's just a small town in Burnley.would rather live here than Blackburn any day. |
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By *ragsterMan
over a year ago
Blackburn |
"Love the way most people are saying blackpool.bet where you live has rough areas as well especially Blackburn it's just a small town in Burnley.would rather live here than Blackburn any day."
I actually live bang in the middle of the Ribble Valley ..surrounded by countryside..and about 7 or 8 miles from both Blackburn and Burnley..which you quite correctly state are both shitholes of the highest quality and right up there with Blackpool. |
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Definitely Blackpool. Weston super mare is a bit of a shithole too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Went to Westward Ho once but it was shut. |
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Any with sewage on the beach. It's a disgrace that our coastal waters are still being polluted in 2022. How can they promote tourism when their beaches are covered in human sh*t? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Blackpool - I worked on the tower renovation for 9 months. It’s a crumbling shithole
Scarborough - only good thing about it is the road out! |
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All these people saying Weston. I like Weston, especially chips & gravy, sat by the pier
Blackpool - that place makes me cringe! |
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"As a Torquay resident I'm duty bound to ask why Paignton isn't on this thread "
Paignton has character, I can't find anything to dislike |
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Blackpool (never go during the daytime, and certainly not sober) |
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"Blackpool (never go during the daytime, and certainly not sober) "
I'll be doing both in October
Might even buy a kiss me quick hat |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Blackpool maybe a shit hole but its a fun place to go out and have a laugh.
Some great bars and venue's.
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"Blackpool (never go during the daytime, and certainly not sober)
I'll be doing both in October
Might even buy a kiss me quick hat"
With all the great recommendations above, why wouldn't you? |
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Grimsby. The clue is in the name! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Out of the ones I’ve visited so far I’d say Blackpool. There is lots to do for kids but on a whole it’s a bit grim especially when you start wandering down the side streets. It’s a bit run down. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Snettisham is a weird run down place. Like a shanty town. |
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Caught a bus into Hartlepool, couldn't get a bus out again fast enough |
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"Caught a bus into Hartlepool, couldn't get a bus out again fast enough"
dodgy place is Hartlepool they hang monkeys
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Skegness!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Rhyl |
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By *TG3Man
over a year ago
Dorchester |
Southend yes very British only been to Blackpool once but as with most British seaside resorts run down and uncared for |
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Courses for horses in my opinion. We all like different things. |
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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
Titz Towers, North Notts |
Skegness. What do you do after 30 minutes putting two pence pieces in the falls machines?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Another vote here for Jaywick, its like a shanty town. Rundown shacks, rubbish, flytipping, druggies, alkies, crims, they rob each other. No matter what time of day or day of the week it is, you're highly likely to get mugged or assaulted. And if you survive that then you can't drive out of there as your car will either be missing some parts or it'll be on fire or its in the sea. Its bigger neighbour Clacton (crackton) isn't much better. |
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Bridlington what a utter shit hole, I wouldn’t live there even if I was homeless.
The mr |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Great Yarmouth - vile place. If that's the "great", I should hate to go to Shite Yarmouth. "
This! |
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Just taking a street view tour of Jaywick |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Blackpool. Complete shit hole I thought. Don’t mean to offend anyone |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Margate is a hole compared to what I remember as a child. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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In fairness, some of the roads in Jaywick have nice new smooth surfaces. Beforehand, they were literally gravelly dirt tracks full of craters. |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
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It depends what you want from a seaside town.
Southend is great for things to do and places to eat.
Not great if you don't like crowds or a stony beach.
Worse for me was Skegness, for the donkey poop everywhere and lack of rides and attractions for kids.
It might be better now though as that was years ago.
I loved Leysdown as a kid bit it looks rundown now. |
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By *ercuryMan
over a year ago
Grantham |
"Skegness. What do you do after 30 minutes putting two pence pieces in the falls machines? "
Not known as "Skeg Vegas" for nothing.
They even have a copy of the "Las Vegas" sign now. |
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"Skegness. What do you do after 30 minutes putting two pence pieces in the falls machines?
Not known as "Skeg Vegas" for nothing.
They even have a copy of the "Las Vegas" sign now."
Dodging dog poo is Skeggy favourite |
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"Blackpool. Complete shit hole I thought. Don’t mean to offend anyone "
We agree. Crack infested shit hole |
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By *ragsterMan
over a year ago
Blackburn |
"Bridlington what a utter shit hole, I wouldn’t live there even if I was homeless.
The mr "
That's funny lol  |
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By *immyGGMan
over a year ago
South Cheshire |
Definitely Blackpool, more litter in the streets than any other place I've been to. Penzance is pretty nasty too. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Any with sewage on the beach. It's a disgrace that our coastal waters are still being polluted in 2022. How can they promote tourism when their beaches are covered in human sh*t?"
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