A classic Victorian seafront hotel reimagined by more than thirty contemporary artists, Art B&B on Blackpool's Promenade turns the traditional seaside guesthouse into a stay-in-art experience. Its nineteen rooms have each been curated as a unique installation, ranging from seafront suites to family rooms, so that no two are alike. The hotel is run as a Community Interest Company that reinvests its profits into arts and community projects, and it grew out of a project by the local arts organisat.....

Tucked into a pair of units on Talbot Road, a short walk from Blackpool North station, Bad Habitz is a small independent nightclub built around electronic dance music. It describes itself as an underground haven: intimate, independently run and dedicated to the kind of late-night dance programming that bigger, more commercial seaside venues tend to overlook. The club's calendar is rooted in DJ culture, spanning hard techno, old-school rave, trance and house. Promoters and record labels use it a.....

One of the largest theatres in the United Kingdom outside London, the Blackpool Opera House forms part of the celebrated Winter Gardens complex on Church Street in the heart of the seaside resort. The present building, the third theatre on the site, opened in 1939 and was designed in a sleek art deco style, replacing earlier opera houses and cementing Blackpool's long-standing reputation as a powerhouse of British popular entertainment. The auditorium is vast, seating close to three thousand pe.....

Bootleg Social has been Blackpool's home of alternative live music since it opened its doors in December 2014. Set in a basement on Topping Street in the town centre, a short walk from Blackpool North station, the independently run late bar and live venue has spent more than a decade cultivating a reputation as something of a hidden gem, with a feel closer to a big-city music room than a seaside resort. The basement space holds around 330 people and is full of character, with exposed brick, wal.....

Operating since 2002, the Comedy Station is described as Lancashire's only dedicated comedy venue, sitting on Bank Hey Street in the heart of Blackpool, directly opposite the rear of the Blackpool Tower complex. Over more than two decades it has brought touring acts from the UK circuit to the Fylde Coast. The club runs shows every Friday and Saturday plus selected Thursdays and Sundays, and is open year-round. Comedians to have appeared include Jason Manford, Eddie Izzard, Seann Walsh, Gary Del.....

The Winter Gardens is a vast Grade II* listed entertainment complex in the centre of Blackpool, occupying a large site between Church Street and Coronation Street. Opened in 1878, it has grown over nearly a century and a half into one of the most significant collections of theatres, ballrooms and exhibition spaces in the United Kingdom, all gathered under a single roof a short walk from the seafront. The complex contains a remarkable range of rooms. Its centrepiece is the Opera House, one of th.....