With more than 12m visitors every year, Blackpool is Britain’s number one holiday resort – and it’s not hard to see why.

The self-styled ‘Las Vegas of the North’ is a festival of fun and frolics, with its famous Pleasure Beach theme park, countless amusement arcades and late-summer illuminations event just a few of the ways it puts a smile on the face of every guest. Whether you spend your days on the seven miles of beach, or head up the iconic Blackpool tower, just make sure you’ve enough energy left to enjoy one of the UK’s liveliest nightlife scenes.