Customer Reviews:
 Why has Blackpool no beach? July 1, 2008
Harry Leeming (Morecambe Lancashire England)
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
Sat Nav `Points of Interest' damaging our tourist trade.
I have just helped a friend set up the very latest model of `Tom Tom Go 530' navigator, am impressed by its navigation ability, it locks onto the sats much quicker than my Sony unit, but underwhelmed by its quoted points of local interest.
At Morecambe, according to TomTom, the distance to the beach is 20 miles, and the nearest library 187 away miles. Swimming pools are over 140 miles away, one of the nearest being in Dublin. If you select this it will plot you a route, and obligingly gives the ferry company's telephone numbers!
Blackpool fares no better. It has no cinemas, places of worship, swimming pools, theatres, or library, but plenty of clubs and pubs, the nearest beach is 18 miles away. The only listing under `visitor attractions' is `Blackpool Tower', how did they discover this?
If you were a foreign tourist and had a TomTom, would you book a holiday at Blackpool or Morecambe?
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