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Disappointing and Underwhelming and not worth the travelling
Blackpool Illuminations的点评
点评：Wednesday 15th Oct 2025 - Weather - Cloudy and dry with no wind - A very pleasant evening weather-wise!
I last visited three years ago and after seeing a local TV news item, (BBC North West), about some negative reviews about the 2025 display I decided to visit again this year. Sadly the negative reviews were right.
I like to walk through the illuminations and this was the first time in a couple of years that I had done so and found the whole experience very underwhelming.
In many places it just consists of just strings of multi-coloured LED bulbs along the road. There are a few places where illuminated "pictures" hang from lamp-posts , mainly at the southern part of the prom.
The northern end has the famous large tableaus located on the grass the other side of the tram tracks. If you have been any time in the past 40 years you will remember them as they are all the same although there are a couple missing this year and at least one new one. But this part of the prom desperately needs refreshing - even if they used giant LED TV screens .
The area around the North Pier/talbot Square area is completely devoid of any illuminations at all, it was like sitting in a black hole! I had some, (excellent!), chips at the chip shop at the front of the North Pier and sat on the picnic tables in relative darkness compared to the rest of the prom. It didn't even feel like the illuminations were switched on!
Just south of the North Pier, at the base of the Tower was where the "Lightpool" is located - a sparse collection of a handful of illuminated LED lit constructions, a bird, a tunnel etc that can be walked around and through. Young children might enjoy them but I was left with the impression that the designers couldn't really be bothered.
The Tower however was, (almost), as impressive as ever! (It was disappointing that there was one section of seaward facing top section that was not working). However, from a distance Blackpool Tower looks stunning with its vibrant colour-changing multi-patterned displays - probably best appreciated from about halfway along the North Pier, (which bizarrely closes about 20:00hrs about 2 to 3 hours before the illuminations switch off for the night).
The area below the Tower was probably the most vibrant and busy part of the illuminations as there is a projected light show on the building at the base of the Tower.
The promenade traffic was relatively light, (Wednesday mid-October) and by about 20:00hrs it was flowing freely in both directions.
The promenade section between the South Pier and the Central Pier takes pedestrians and walkers quite a way from the road and illuminations and is very dark with uneven slopes and invisible tripping hazards. There are no lights at all in parts and great care must be taken. It is used by joggers, cyclists, scooters and of course walkers and pedestrians etc. Families with young children and elderly people should be very careful in this area - why there is no lighting in this area is a mystery as it can be quite disconcerting in the pitch darkness in parts and tricky if you are a slow walker. At least a string of lights sunk into the concrete should be installed to illuminate the path, or strung overhead.
I walked from Bispham, (at the north end), to the southern limit, a distance of 6 miles and it took about 3 hours at a gentle stroll, stopping for refreshments at the North Pier, in that time I only saw 1 illuminated tram, (the trawler), which past me twice although the regular tram service was running these were a lot less frequent than they used to be, although if travelling to the resort by train there is now a tram stop at Blackpool NORTH Station with services to the north end of the lights and the south end. (Note that trains to Blackpool South are ideal if you are wanting to walk from the southern end of the lights - alight at Squires Gate Station, note - NO DISABLED ACCESS at Squires Gate as it is a steep set of steps - use the next "Pleasure Beach" station for level access - both unmanned stations). It is a short 1 minute walk to the prom from both stations
Regarding the tram service, I remember that there was always two or three trams always in sight whichever way you looked along the promenade, a mixture of double-deck and single deck trams at very frequent intervals - now there are long time periods between the single-deck trams and when they turn up they are full and standing from the Pleasure Beach to Bispham.
(If you want to view the illuminations from an ordinary tram DON'T travel on one with an "all-over-advert" as you wont get a clear view out of the window due to the advert covering the windows!).
However, even on the ordinary non-advert trams the view is poor due to the ill-thought-out seating arrangement.
Basically there were not enough trams running even though it was mid-week in October.
The illuminated Tram needs to be pre-booked apparently - good luck with that as it only appeared to do a couple of round trips with about 30 or 40 passengers on it.
There used to be, many years ago, several of these illuminated trams plus ordinary heritage trams doing illuminations tours with some of the trams having additional lighting on them, all adding to the special atmosphere along the promenade.
In the 3 or so hours I was there I didn't see any of the heritage trams at all which was a huge disappointment, the modern trams are character-less, dark, silent and almost invisible! However they are suitable for all abilities with wheelchair access.
I understand that the council want to severely restrict, or ban the heritage trams altogether! In my view they are as much a part of Blackpool as the Tower!
The open-top trams that used to operate on the prom were ideal for seeing the illuminations!). The modern trams, whilst being functional people movers do the illuminations a huge disservice by not allowing passengers to actually see the displays!
In conclusion the Blackpool Illuminations were disappointing, underwhelming lacking in the atmosphere that that there used to be and not really worthy of a long drive down the motorway you could get more pleasure from a set of coloured bulbs at home or climbing to the top of a local hill and looking at the brightly lit Blackpool Tower through binoculars!
I feel that even giving a two star review is probably being generous!
Come on Blackpool You could do a lot better than this!!!
I last visited three years ago and after seeing a local TV news item, (BBC North West), about some negative reviews about the 2025 display I decided to visit again this year. Sadly the negative reviews were right.
I like to walk through the illuminations and this was the first time in a couple of years that I had done so and found the whole experience very underwhelming.
In many places it just consists of just strings of multi-coloured LED bulbs along the road. There are a few places where illuminated "pictures" hang from lamp-posts , mainly at the southern part of the prom.
The northern end has the famous large tableaus located on the grass the other side of the tram tracks. If you have been any time in the past 40 years you will remember them as they are all the same although there are a couple missing this year and at least one new one. But this part of the prom desperately needs refreshing - even if they used giant LED TV screens .
The area around the North Pier/talbot Square area is completely devoid of any illuminations at all, it was like sitting in a black hole! I had some, (excellent!), chips at the chip shop at the front of the North Pier and sat on the picnic tables in relative darkness compared to the rest of the prom. It didn't even feel like the illuminations were switched on!
Just south of the North Pier, at the base of the Tower was where the "Lightpool" is located - a sparse collection of a handful of illuminated LED lit constructions, a bird, a tunnel etc that can be walked around and through. Young children might enjoy them but I was left with the impression that the designers couldn't really be bothered.
The Tower however was, (almost), as impressive as ever! (It was disappointing that there was one section of seaward facing top section that was not working). However, from a distance Blackpool Tower looks stunning with its vibrant colour-changing multi-patterned displays - probably best appreciated from about halfway along the North Pier, (which bizarrely closes about 20:00hrs about 2 to 3 hours before the illuminations switch off for the night).
The area below the Tower was probably the most vibrant and busy part of the illuminations as there is a projected light show on the building at the base of the Tower.
The promenade traffic was relatively light, (Wednesday mid-October) and by about 20:00hrs it was flowing freely in both directions.
The promenade section between the South Pier and the Central Pier takes pedestrians and walkers quite a way from the road and illuminations and is very dark with uneven slopes and invisible tripping hazards. There are no lights at all in parts and great care must be taken. It is used by joggers, cyclists, scooters and of course walkers and pedestrians etc. Families with young children and elderly people should be very careful in this area - why there is no lighting in this area is a mystery as it can be quite disconcerting in the pitch darkness in parts and tricky if you are a slow walker. At least a string of lights sunk into the concrete should be installed to illuminate the path, or strung overhead.
I walked from Bispham, (at the north end), to the southern limit, a distance of 6 miles and it took about 3 hours at a gentle stroll, stopping for refreshments at the North Pier, in that time I only saw 1 illuminated tram, (the trawler), which past me twice although the regular tram service was running these were a lot less frequent than they used to be, although if travelling to the resort by train there is now a tram stop at Blackpool NORTH Station with services to the north end of the lights and the south end. (Note that trains to Blackpool South are ideal if you are wanting to walk from the southern end of the lights - alight at Squires Gate Station, note - NO DISABLED ACCESS at Squires Gate as it is a steep set of steps - use the next "Pleasure Beach" station for level access - both unmanned stations). It is a short 1 minute walk to the prom from both stations
Regarding the tram service, I remember that there was always two or three trams always in sight whichever way you looked along the promenade, a mixture of double-deck and single deck trams at very frequent intervals - now there are long time periods between the single-deck trams and when they turn up they are full and standing from the Pleasure Beach to Bispham.
(If you want to view the illuminations from an ordinary tram DON'T travel on one with an "all-over-advert" as you wont get a clear view out of the window due to the advert covering the windows!).
However, even on the ordinary non-advert trams the view is poor due to the ill-thought-out seating arrangement.
Basically there were not enough trams running even though it was mid-week in October.
The illuminated Tram needs to be pre-booked apparently - good luck with that as it only appeared to do a couple of round trips with about 30 or 40 passengers on it.
There used to be, many years ago, several of these illuminated trams plus ordinary heritage trams doing illuminations tours with some of the trams having additional lighting on them, all adding to the special atmosphere along the promenade.
In the 3 or so hours I was there I didn't see any of the heritage trams at all which was a huge disappointment, the modern trams are character-less, dark, silent and almost invisible! However they are suitable for all abilities with wheelchair access.
I understand that the council want to severely restrict, or ban the heritage trams altogether! In my view they are as much a part of Blackpool as the Tower!
The open-top trams that used to operate on the prom were ideal for seeing the illuminations!). The modern trams, whilst being functional people movers do the illuminations a huge disservice by not allowing passengers to actually see the displays!
In conclusion the Blackpool Illuminations were disappointing, underwhelming lacking in the atmosphere that that there used to be and not really worthy of a long drive down the motorway you could get more pleasure from a set of coloured bulbs at home or climbing to the top of a local hill and looking at the brightly lit Blackpool Tower through binoculars!
I feel that even giving a two star review is probably being generous!
Come on Blackpool You could do a lot better than this!!!
翻译：2025年10月15日，星期三 - 天气 - 多云干燥，无风 - 今晚的天气非常宜人！
我上次来这里是三年前，在看到当地电视新闻（BBC西北台）关于2025年灯光秀的一些负面评价后，我决定今年再次来这里。可惜的是，这些负面评价都是对的。
我喜欢在灯光秀中漫步，这是我几年来第一次这样做，但整个体验非常令人失望。
在很多地方，灯光秀只是沿路悬挂着一串串五颜六色的LED灯泡。在一些地方，灯光“画”悬挂在路灯柱上，主要集中在舞会的南边。
北端是著名的大型场景，位于电车轨道另一侧的草地上。如果你在过去40年里来过这里，你会记得它们，因为它们都是一样的，尽管今年少了一些，但至少有一个新的。但舞会的这部分亟需翻新——即使他们用了巨大的LED电视屏幕。
北码头/塔尔博特广场周围完全没有任何照明，感觉就像坐在黑洞里！我在北码头前面的炸鱼薯条店吃了一些（太棒了！）炸鱼薯条，然后坐在野餐桌上，与舞会的其他地方相比，这里相对黑暗。甚至感觉不到灯光被打开了！
北码头南边，塔的底部是“光池”——一个稀疏的LED照明建筑，有一只鸟、一条隧道等等，可以绕行和穿过。小孩子可能会喜欢，但我感觉设计师们根本不在乎。
然而，塔几乎和以前一样令人印象深刻！（令人失望的是，顶部朝海的部分有一段没有亮。）然而，从远处看，黑潭塔以其色彩鲜艳、图案丰富的变幻灯光秀令人叹为观止——最佳观赏地点大概在北码头的中途（奇怪的是，北码头在晚上8点左右关闭，比夜间灯光秀关闭时间提前2到3个小时）。
塔下区域可能是灯光秀中最绚丽、最热闹的区域，因为塔底部的建筑上投射着灯光秀。
步行道交通相对畅通（十月中旬，星期三），到晚上8点左右，双向交通都畅通无阻。
南码头和中央码头之间的步行道部分，行人和行人远离道路和灯光秀，光线昏暗，坡度不平，容易绊倒。部分路段完全没有灯光，必须格外小心。慢跑者、骑自行车者、骑摩托车者，当然还有步行者和行人等都会使用它。有小孩和老人的家庭在这个区域应该非常小心——为什么这个区域没有照明是一个谜，因为在漆黑一片的地方照明会让人感到不安，如果你走得慢的话会很棘手。至少应该安装一串嵌入混凝土的灯来照亮道路，或者在头顶上挂一串灯。
我从比斯普姆（北端）走到南端，距离 6 英里，悠闲地漫步大约需要 3 个小时，在北码头停下来吃点东西，那段时间我只看到一辆有灯光的电车（拖网船），它从我身边经过两次，虽然常规电车服务仍在运行，但班次比以前少了很多，不过如果乘火车前往度假村，现在布莱克浦北站有一个电车站，提供前往灯光区北端和南端的服务。 （请注意，如果您想从灯光南端步行，前往布莱克浦南站的火车是理想之选——请在斯奎尔斯门站下车。斯奎尔斯门站设有陡峭的台阶，因此禁止残疾人通行——请使用下一个“游乐海滩”站的无障碍通道——这两个车站都是无人值守的。）从这两个车站步行到海滨大道只需短短1分钟。
关于有轨电车服务，我记得以前沿着海滨大道，无论你往哪个方向看，总能看到两三辆有轨电车，双层和单层有轨电车的班次非常频繁——现在单层有轨电车的班次间隔很长，而且它们到站时已经客满，从游乐海滩到比斯普汉姆都停满了。
（如果您想乘坐普通有轨电车观赏灯光秀，请不要乘坐“满屏广告”的有轨电车，因为广告会遮住车窗，您将无法看清窗外的景色！）。
然而，即使是普通的无广告电车，由于座位安排不当，视野也很差。
虽然当时是十月中旬，但基本上电车运行量不足。
看来，乘坐灯光电车需要提前预订——祝你好运，因为它似乎只运行几趟往返，每次载客量大概在三四十人左右。
很多年前，这里曾有几辆这种灯光电车和普通的传统电车一起进行灯光巡游，有些电车上还配有额外的照明，这些都为海滨长廊增添了特别的氛围。
我在那里待了大约三个小时，却没有看到任何传统电车，这真是令人大失所望。现代电车毫无特色，昏暗、安静，几乎看不见！不过，它们适合所有行动不便人士，并且配有轮椅通道。
我明白市议会想要严格限制或完全禁止传统电车！在我看来，它们和塔一样，都是黑潭不可或缺的一部分！
以前在海滨长廊上运行的敞篷电车是观赏灯光秀的理想选择！）。现代电车虽然可以作为载客交通工具，但却严重损害了灯光秀的效果，因为它们不允许乘客真正看到灯光秀！
总而言之，黑潭灯饰节令人失望，缺乏往日的氛围，实在不值得长途跋涉在高速公路上观赏。与其在家欣赏彩灯，不如爬上当地山顶，用望远镜眺望灯火通明的黑潭塔，感受更美好的时光！
我觉得即使给两星评价也已经很慷慨了！
加油，黑潭，你们可以做得更好！！！
我上次来这里是三年前，在看到当地电视新闻（BBC西北台）关于2025年灯光秀的一些负面评价后，我决定今年再次来这里。可惜的是，这些负面评价都是对的。
我喜欢在灯光秀中漫步，这是我几年来第一次这样做，但整个体验非常令人失望。
在很多地方，灯光秀只是沿路悬挂着一串串五颜六色的LED灯泡。在一些地方，灯光“画”悬挂在路灯柱上，主要集中在舞会的南边。
北端是著名的大型场景，位于电车轨道另一侧的草地上。如果你在过去40年里来过这里，你会记得它们，因为它们都是一样的，尽管今年少了一些，但至少有一个新的。但舞会的这部分亟需翻新——即使他们用了巨大的LED电视屏幕。
北码头/塔尔博特广场周围完全没有任何照明，感觉就像坐在黑洞里！我在北码头前面的炸鱼薯条店吃了一些（太棒了！）炸鱼薯条，然后坐在野餐桌上，与舞会的其他地方相比，这里相对黑暗。甚至感觉不到灯光被打开了！
北码头南边，塔的底部是“光池”——一个稀疏的LED照明建筑，有一只鸟、一条隧道等等，可以绕行和穿过。小孩子可能会喜欢，但我感觉设计师们根本不在乎。
然而，塔几乎和以前一样令人印象深刻！（令人失望的是，顶部朝海的部分有一段没有亮。）然而，从远处看，黑潭塔以其色彩鲜艳、图案丰富的变幻灯光秀令人叹为观止——最佳观赏地点大概在北码头的中途（奇怪的是，北码头在晚上8点左右关闭，比夜间灯光秀关闭时间提前2到3个小时）。
塔下区域可能是灯光秀中最绚丽、最热闹的区域，因为塔底部的建筑上投射着灯光秀。
步行道交通相对畅通（十月中旬，星期三），到晚上8点左右，双向交通都畅通无阻。
南码头和中央码头之间的步行道部分，行人和行人远离道路和灯光秀，光线昏暗，坡度不平，容易绊倒。部分路段完全没有灯光，必须格外小心。慢跑者、骑自行车者、骑摩托车者，当然还有步行者和行人等都会使用它。有小孩和老人的家庭在这个区域应该非常小心——为什么这个区域没有照明是一个谜，因为在漆黑一片的地方照明会让人感到不安，如果你走得慢的话会很棘手。至少应该安装一串嵌入混凝土的灯来照亮道路，或者在头顶上挂一串灯。
我从比斯普姆（北端）走到南端，距离 6 英里，悠闲地漫步大约需要 3 个小时，在北码头停下来吃点东西，那段时间我只看到一辆有灯光的电车（拖网船），它从我身边经过两次，虽然常规电车服务仍在运行，但班次比以前少了很多，不过如果乘火车前往度假村，现在布莱克浦北站有一个电车站，提供前往灯光区北端和南端的服务。 （请注意，如果您想从灯光南端步行，前往布莱克浦南站的火车是理想之选——请在斯奎尔斯门站下车。斯奎尔斯门站设有陡峭的台阶，因此禁止残疾人通行——请使用下一个“游乐海滩”站的无障碍通道——这两个车站都是无人值守的。）从这两个车站步行到海滨大道只需短短1分钟。
关于有轨电车服务，我记得以前沿着海滨大道，无论你往哪个方向看，总能看到两三辆有轨电车，双层和单层有轨电车的班次非常频繁——现在单层有轨电车的班次间隔很长，而且它们到站时已经客满，从游乐海滩到比斯普汉姆都停满了。
（如果您想乘坐普通有轨电车观赏灯光秀，请不要乘坐“满屏广告”的有轨电车，因为广告会遮住车窗，您将无法看清窗外的景色！）。
然而，即使是普通的无广告电车，由于座位安排不当，视野也很差。
虽然当时是十月中旬，但基本上电车运行量不足。
看来，乘坐灯光电车需要提前预订——祝你好运，因为它似乎只运行几趟往返，每次载客量大概在三四十人左右。
很多年前，这里曾有几辆这种灯光电车和普通的传统电车一起进行灯光巡游，有些电车上还配有额外的照明，这些都为海滨长廊增添了特别的氛围。
我在那里待了大约三个小时，却没有看到任何传统电车，这真是令人大失所望。现代电车毫无特色，昏暗、安静，几乎看不见！不过，它们适合所有行动不便人士，并且配有轮椅通道。
我明白市议会想要严格限制或完全禁止传统电车！在我看来，它们和塔一样，都是黑潭不可或缺的一部分！
以前在海滨长廊上运行的敞篷电车是观赏灯光秀的理想选择！）。现代电车虽然可以作为载客交通工具，但却严重损害了灯光秀的效果，因为它们不允许乘客真正看到灯光秀！
总而言之，黑潭灯饰节令人失望，缺乏往日的氛围，实在不值得长途跋涉在高速公路上观赏。与其在家欣赏彩灯，不如爬上当地山顶，用望远镜眺望灯火通明的黑潭塔，感受更美好的时光！
我觉得即使给两星评价也已经很慷慨了！
加油，黑潭，你们可以做得更好！！！
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