Also, Towyn.
It's a bleak, miserable hole of a place. If you think Rhyl is a tesco value parody of Blackpool, then Towyn is a Netto version of Rhyl.

Someone thought 'Oh here's a cold grey beach with little or no natural beauty. Let's dump some grey concrete and a couple of dingy caravans by it and call it a 'sea-side resort'. Whilst we're at it, let's give it a massive carboot sale every weekend just to liven things up. It'll be BRILLIANT.'

It fucking isn't, it's a sink of shite.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Fri 30 Oct 2009, 23:49, 3 replies)

maybe so
but you can still play bingo in the arcades for 10p
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 2:06, closed)

We had a family holiday there once in a borrowed caravan.
The 'beach' is indeed a strip of lumpy, sand-free pebbles, narrow when the tide's in and wide when it's out.

'Our' caravan was on a huge site with hundreds of others. The 'beach' could only be reached from here by climbing over a stile on a high stone wall, CROSSING THE RAILWAY TRACK and climbing the stile on the opposite wall. I was 6 months pregnant and we had a toddler.

A constant stream of caravan-dwellers did this back and forth all day - it was always like a busy Saturday on Oxford Street.
Strapping young fathers formed a chain to pass children and buggies over the stiles, keeping an eye and an ear open for trains. Extraordinarily dangerous.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 6:27, closed)

Towyn is indeed a hole
However Aberdyfi just down the road makes up for it somewhat. Other than the 4 weeks of the year where what seems like the whole of Birmingham moves in.
And I still think it's got more going for it than Borth!
(Moniker, Wed 4 Nov 2009, 23:51, closed)