Blackpool Sands Reviews Summary

Beach Quality

Pros:

• "Excellent beach very clean with clear blue sea."
• "The water is lovely and clean and the beach is very well looked after."
• "This wonderful shingle beach can be located on the South West Coast Path and is an ideal family or friend day out on the lovely South Devon Coastline."
• "It is a beautiful beach, not too crowded."
• "Gorgeous beach, clean and everyone who visited was very caring with their rubbish."
• "A beautiful beach that is well maintained with all the facilities you need - paid for by a car parking fee."
• "Absolutely beautiful so so picturesque."

Cons:

• "An absolute disgrace for a beach. Not only is it limited on when you can go. They also think its OK to charge per person per entry."
• "Not sandy at all, don't bring buckets and spades! Shingle is painful to walk on so wear beach shoes."
• "But it's not sand. Now is it really pebbles. It's horrible gritty shingles. Horrible to walk on in any footwear (or barefoot)."
• "The only downside for me is the lack of sand for building castles or digging deep pits."
• "The beach is all stones which get inside your shoes but is a blue flag beach."
• "The beach is very stoney but the view is amazing."
• "The beach is tiny pebbles, which is so much nicer than sand or regular pebbles, the sea is beautiful."

Facilities

Pros:

• "As good as it gets for beach facilities. Plenty of parking (reasonable rates given the amenities), toilets, shower, changing huts, shop, cafe, ice cream and coffee."
• "Good facilities including toilets, changing rooms and beach showers."
• "Beautiful secluded bay offering car parking, toilet, cafe and beach shop."
• "Great beach huge area has a beach shop restaurant coffee bar boat hire toilets changing rooms and shower."
• "A lovely clean beach with very good toilet and changing facilities."
• "Beautiful beach. The beach is very large and there are many opportunities to practise boarding and other water activities."
• "Lovely fine sand and shingle beach in a secluded bay surrounded by rock cliffs."

Cons:

• "An absolute disgrace for a beach. Not only is it limited on when you can go. They also think its OK to charge per person per entry."
• "You don't mind paying £5 to park which is not bad for all day but bit steep for a coffee."
• "At £9 parking you wouldn't want to just drop in for an hour or two in the morning."
• "New parking system let the rating down, it meant that we had to pay £4 just for breakfast visit!!!!!"
• "NO mats on the beach to help less able folks or pushchairs - BIG oversight as 50-100 metres of pathway would make life so much better for people."
• "The cafe prices are extortionate so take your own food."
• "The cafe is very expensive so do be aware of that if you are planning to eat there."

Accessibility

Pros:

• "Dog-friendly with ample parking."
• "You can go their by your own vehicle or by bus."
• "Has the added bonus of parking almost on the beach itself."
• "There is a huge paid parking area."
• "Car park enables you to take the children straight to the beach without any climbing."
• "Parking was £4 all day so really good value & plenty of spaces."
• "The car parking was easy & nice (good cost as well)."

Cons:

• "Sharing my experience purely as a wheelchair user. In general the beach is excellent however I did struggle in my electric wheelchair."
• "The fields surrounding the carpark were opened up for parking so that was plentiful and £6 for the day for vehicles of 4 or less people."
• "But death defying small roads that dip downwards. Scary if u are not a pro at driving."
• "Sadly the beach is not wheelchair friendly with no access to the sea."
• "This is not a sandy beach so if your thinking of bringing a pushchair it's very hard work getting on."
• "Be careful of the satnav directions to get here, as it took us on an awful route which was impassable in most of it!"
• "Very disappointed with cafe and rip off car parking £8 for for 15 mins cafe was very disorganized."

Food and Drink

Pros:

• "The shop and restaurant all used compostable/recyclable cups tins etc. No plastic bottles."
• "The cafe offers really good food and the beer is ice cold."
• "The cafe is ok average food if you're hungry but they do ice cream n drinks too."
• "Drinks and food at reasonable prices."
• "Food outlet was very good, friendly, tasty, good quality and £reasonable given the location."
• "The cafe serves a good selection of nice food."
• "Good range of food, drinks, and beach items at a fair price."

Cons:

• "Do not visit this place. Has got to be the worst eaterie I’ve ever had the misfortune to visit."
• "The falafel wrap I had was bland and far too cold."
• "Cafe on site, ☹️ what we ordered was not very good. Burnt chips and Crab Sandwich with white bread, a bit soggy along with beer and a coffee."
• "Food in cafe is terrible, 3 burgers with fries and drink cost £40, burger without taste, no salt on fries because they run out."
• "The takeaway cafe is good for chips and a drink but is too expensive for much else and don’t plan to buy from the shop as again, it’s far too pricey."
• "Cafe is overpriced, milkshake £3.50 in a small paper cup."
• "The new restaurant food is terrible two tasteless BLT's which were pre made."