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# You been to Rhyl recently?
Definitely not how I remembered it when I were a kid. :(
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 12:49, archived)
# 50 years back it was ok :)
it's the pits now
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 12:54, archived)
# Mm, it's like a British Chernobyl.
It's probably a case of rose-tinted specs, but I remember it being much nicer during the 90s.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 12:58, archived)
# I went in the 70's...
All I remember is, that it was a long drive and not as good as Mablethorpe, Chaple, Ingoldmells or Skegness
(I helped save b3ta! The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:10, archived)
# We went in the 80's and it was shut
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:12, archived)
# Probably WAS rose-tinted specs then.
We would go up to Towyn or Llandudno during the Summer for a week. I went back to both towns a year back and I honestly wanted to headbutt the sharp end of a katana. Fucking dire, man.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:17, archived)
# I like Mablethorpe because it is bad, but it always was........
it is a time warp, really not changed since the early 70's still got the same old 50's and 60's slot machines and games...
(I helped save b3ta! The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:27, archived)
# We used to have family holidays in Mablethorpe in the 70's!
Golden Sands caravan resort, if I recall correctly
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:29, archived)
# We weren't well off enough to actually stop in Mablethorpe, we used to stop in Sutton on sea and travle the mile or so to get there...
You remember the cowboy manikin that you had to draw against then! in the arcade on the corner..
(I helped save b3ta! The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:36, archived)
# I really don't remember much about the place
just that the sand used to fucking sting your legs when it was windy. And it was ALWAYS windy.
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:39, archived)
# It's bracing...!
(I helped save b3ta! The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:45, archived)
# haha true, it's just up the road from Skeggy too
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:48, archived)
# i remember those!
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:59, archived)
# DRAW!
God it was difficlt to win as a kid!
(I helped save b3ta! The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 14:05, archived)
# I can't say I've ever been
but judging by your description, there's still a few places in Wales like that, really old game machines. The caravan site I'd stay on had an original Pole Position machine inside... probably still has.

It's not a bit like Blackpool, where everything is pretty much new. I'd never stay there though.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:31, archived)
# I like it for the nostalgia, reminds me of being young.....
Its most unique feature is the smell!

Last time I went to Blackpool wasover 10 years ago.... I can remember how dirty it was!
(I helped save b3ta! The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:40, archived)
# ^
Blackpool looks like the inside of a tramp's shopping trolley and smells like a chipshop worker's bumcrack
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:42, archived)
# Haha yes,Just remeber to wipe your feet before you get back in your car to drive home!
(I helped save b3ta! The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:47, archived)
# I was last in Blackpool about a year ago.
Preston being relatively close to it, I thought 'why not?' and went to see what had changed.

I spent most of my time in Coral Island anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:44, archived)
# If that's the fun fair....
I freaked out on a ride called the haunted swing...
(I helped save b3ta! The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:50, archived)
# Coral Island's a bit closer to the tower.
I was going to go to the fair, but couldn't be arsed in the end. I've still yet to go on the Big One.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:55, archived)
# If the haunted swing freaked me out, imagine me on the big one! no thanks!
(I helped save b3ta! The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 14:02, archived)
# Similar thing happened to me and an ex girlfriend....
I was telling her about going to hunstanton as a child, so we just turned the car aroung and drove 3 hours to to get there on the spur of the moment, cold dark raining and closed....
(I helped save b3ta! The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:24, archived)
# I used to go to Anglesey as a child and had fond memories of Holyhead
I went back a few years ago and was horrified...Chavs, litter, boarded-up shops and a lingering stink of death, decay and diesel.
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:28, archived)
# Yep, that's pretty much what most of North Wales is like now. A bloody shame.
I think the nicest place I've had a holiday in the UK was Westward Ho! in Devon. Not been for a while so it also might have succumb to degradation, but I remember it being very clean, and not full of mouth-breathing dole-scrounging fuckwits.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:29, archived)
# hahaha.............. that's the best review ever
'kin spot on
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:38, archived)
# Sounds like a posh version of Jaywick!
(I helped save b3ta! The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Sat 21 Jan 2012, 13:54, archived)