Blackpool home to the UK’s best-loved beach
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Blackpool has been named the UK’s best-loved beach among UK holidaymakers, according to a new report issued by Post Office Travel Services.
Despite the growing popularity of overseas destinations, the Holiday Feelings Barometer from Post Office Travel Services found that Blackpool is still the all-time beach favourite today – easily beating Benidorm and other European hotspots.
More than 2,000 people contributed to the poll that sought to establish which beaches brought back the happiest memories and which are the current favourites. Between them they named more than 200 beaches in the UK and worldwide.
These days over three-in-five holidaymakers (61 per cent) say overseas beaches are their favourites. Spanish resorts take up three of seven top 20 places held by beaches abroad – with Benidorm and Majorca getting the highest ratings. Further afield, the Maldives, Sydney’s Bondi Beach and Miami Beach also rate highly.
Childhood beach favourites | Today’s top beaches |
Blackpool | Blackpool |
Brighton | Benidorm |
Scarborough | Majorca |
Bournemouth | Brighton |
Skegness | Bournemouth |
Newquay | Algarve |
Great Yarmouth | Scarborough |
Southend | Weymouth |
Margate | Tenerife |
Bridlington | Great Yarmouth |
Weston-super-Mare | Tenby |
Southport | Skegness |
Weymouth | Newquay |
Rhyl | Maldives |
Filey | St Ives |
Whitby | Camber Sands |
Clacton | Bondi, Sydney |
St Ives | Torquay |
Woolacombe | Llandudno |
Torquay | Miami |
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