Blackpool Pleasure Beach 'Speedy Pass' Vlog | June 2021

We headed to Blackpool Pleasure Beach on a bright and sunny Saturday in June 2021, during our visit we used 'VIP Speedy Pass' to see if it's worth using on a busy day and to see how it can benefit us/you on a busy day at the Pleasure Beach. We also checked out 'The Hub' where the Pleasure Beach will be opening up during Euro 2020 to show the live football.
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[@ZEK.0]

This has got to be one of your greatest vlogs ever, so informative and well put together! Makes me feel like I’m there. Speedy pass definitely seems like a good idea! Looks like it’s been implemented nicely too. Also, it’s so annoying when publications constantly comment on things they don’t know about, but hey that’s just what they do.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thanks Zak, appreciate the feedback

[@StunnedByWrestling]

Nothing better than Pleasure Beach on a warm day with blue skies, takes me back to my youth!

[@yourexperienceguide]

Totally agree 🎢

[@clairparsons2468]

Thanks for these blackpool vlogs about speedy pass and beat the queues. Really helpful and informative for our visit in August. I haven't been to blackpool for many years and really looking forward to visiting the pleasure beach.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you for watching and commenting, hope you have an excellent time :)

[@demodex9653]

Thank you so much, this is so helpful. I am going soon and I haven’t been sure to get it or not but this has helped so much, thanks !

[@yourexperienceguide]

We hope you have a great time 🎢

[@kevinhashimoto8367]

Great vlog as always, Scott! Great to see the gang back together.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thanks Kevin ☺️

[@kevinhashimoto8367]

@@yourexperienceguide you're welcome grumpy old man 😄

[@Jj-iv2xe]

Love the videos im going on Thursday 1 July so exited

[@yourexperienceguide]

Have a great time

[@ethanmanley7101]

Thank you for the vlog and informing me on how to use the vip speedy pass before i go myself very helpful thank you :)

[@yourexperienceguide]

Happy to help :)

[@farangtravels3956]

Excellent information, really liked the maintenance of the Big One explination 👍

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you for watching and commenting 🎢

[@edz_gaming7915]

I’ve wanted to see a video like this!

[@yourexperienceguide]

I hope you enjoyed it ☺️

[@randomrecordingz8235]

Top video lads, keep it up. I was there 6 days before you, would have been good to bump into you lot.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thanks for watching and commenting hope you had a good time

[@tylersmith4708]

I went here last Friday and I loved it, I got there early so I could goto icon straight away, a thing I don't like about the new seats is, me and my brother were going to be sat at the front but me being a little bit of a bigger character "couldn't fit" but the worker was squashing me and the belt and restraint was fully on, but credits to them for making sure safety of me, we had to sit at the back, assuming them seats are bigger... but im not a huge fan of the back other than that I had an amazing weekend at Blackpool + pleasure beach glad you guys had a good time too!

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you for watching and commenting 🎢

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Great vid chaps . Definitely considering it for the end of the month (Sunday ) 😬🧱👍🏼

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thanks guys, Sunday’s are usually quieter but this year has been unpredictable

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@@yourexperienceguide knowing our luck the weather will turn 🥺😆

[@yourexperienceguide]

@@SteveAndAlexBuild I’m dreading that for some scheduled filming this week

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@@yourexperienceguide Good luck 🤞🏼😬

[@colintait7139]

Great to see you guys on top form enjoying the day....any predictions for the euros Scott...... keep up the good work 🎢👍🎢👍🎢

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thanks Colin! Not sure who’ll win it mate, I can see England making a mess of it though.

[@alfnsue]

Great vlog lads 😎 😎 😎

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you 😊

[@nathanirwin01]

I use Thorpe Parks super charge deals for tickets, fast track, stay over, parking and breakfast for like £50pp it's hilarious to hear the comments about having loads of money to waste from the normal queue.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you for watching and commenting

[@theaverageparkrunner]

Naughty people promoting speedypass!! :) Informative as always. May even bite the bullet and get one myself next time if it's as busy as it was on bank holiday. Can't afford the VIP one though. I'm a Yorkshireman :)

[@yourexperienceguide]

Always the same you Yorkshire folk 😉😆

[@TreehouseCoasters]

Great Vlog guys I was there the same day and did walk past you guys was going to say hello but you looked very envoled so didn't want to interrupt

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thanks Adrian hope you had a good day

[@TreehouseCoasters]

@@yourexperienceguide Yes it was great had my first ever ride on Icon got a front row! and then first ever ride on the big one.. Wow

[@yourexperienceguide]

@@TreehouseCoasters Awesome ☺️

[@chloehurst5723]

Went at LNR the other week. The big one front seat on the back carriage was 10/10. Had the best 7 rides I’ve ever had one it. Icon was my fave but the big one is hot on it’s tail this season 👀

[@yourexperienceguide]

It’s running so well this year! Thanks for watching and commenting 🎢

[@hallas007]

So I am TERRIFIED of Rollercoasters, but watching your videos has given me that bit of a push needed to book a Friday off and get to Pleasure Beach and face my fears, definitely need some walk ons to reduce the chances of me having a panic attack in the queue and bottling it 😂

[@yourexperienceguide]

Awesome, have a great time Ryan

[@thellamaking7248]

We honestly tried sneaking into the background of this video and failed miserably

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thanks for watching and commenting 🎢 😆

[@keiranhyre750]

Brilliant vlog

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you

[@williamwood8216]

Weatherspoons is fantastic

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thanks for sharing

[@deanbrookes4591]

Great video Scott. How does it work if you stay at the big blue though? I’m there on Sunday and they don’t give you an e ticket as it’s included in my room rate?

[@yourexperienceguide]

Hi Dean, I’m not sure mate unfortunately

[@jaysoncowan4333]

How busy is the park on a standard Sunday in Mid July? Also great video and when r u going to Alton towers as the rides are back at full capacity so if you where putting off for the queues u don’t need to worry as much even though they are big just not as big.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Hard to say in advance but expect queues any time in July. We'll be visiting Alton Towers soon but not without fast track.

[@danielbooth2982]

A very different and informative video that I really enjoyed. Good information. I certainly would speedy pass it for Towers as queues the other day over 2 or 3 hours, however their best pass is bloody £65 😌

[@yourexperienceguide]

I have been looking at Towers fast pass, £105 for unlimited fast pass surprised me a lot!

[@danielbooth2982]

@@yourexperienceguide shocking, I was on about the gold pass but platinum £105! Unbelievable. Thanks for the reply.

[@keno051]

A great video this! I hope this was complimentary for you lads for the day as you've done BPB a great service with this video. I know £50 on the face of it may sound expensive but when you compare it to the likes of Alton Towers which i think the equivalent is £90? BPB's is a bargain.

[@yourexperienceguide]

We’ve been looking at the equivalent option at Towers and it’s £105, crazy really

[@keno051]

@@yourexperienceguide It must of went up in price then! It was £90 2 years ago.

[@deanos102]

Good informative video, i might of missed this, but does each person need to activate it on there ticket , or can i book it under the group and just activate once for 2 people on 1 phone , if that makes sense

[@yourexperienceguide]

You can do a group speedy booking but we did it individually

[@joannaroberts6728]

Is there a limit on the amount of times you can use your speedy pass for certain rides? I read somewhere earlier that you could only use speedy pass once for Icon?? Thanks!

[@yourexperienceguide]

Speedy pass VIP has no limits unless stated at the time of purchase

[@mischiefmanaged5757]

Thanks for explaining how this works. Does the price of the speedy pass change depending on the day and the season? I don’t normally use queue skip passes, but this sounds pretty good for a busy school holiday visit.

[@yourexperienceguide]

It’s always the same price

[@mischiefmanaged5757]

@@yourexperienceguide wow! That makes it even more appealing. BPB seems far less money grabbing than some other U.K. theme parks I could mention.

[@Spiritofthecimmarron]

have to say the most airtime we got on our first ever visit to pleasure beach on Monday was on the back row of Nickelodeon Streak! ive never been thrown about so much ahahah

[@yourexperienceguide]

It is an airtime filled coaster

[@timduncan9745]

Full English..the best....as for that airtime comment..yes scott 👍

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you for watching and commenting :)

[@katiesparrow98]

Going this Saturday with my boyfriend and we booked vip speedy pass online with the e-tickets. Was wondering if you knew how to use the speedy pass’s when you have more than 1 person? When you book a ride does it book it for the two of you?

[@yourexperienceguide]

It can be done with a lead booker but am not sure how

[@sincerelyinsincere9268]

Yeah like I mentioned in your other video, for me (infrequent park visitor) Speedy Pass makes sense. I think last time I visited it cost me around £70 each for me and my nephew (Speedy Pass + wristband.) It's obviously not cheap, however I think we managed around 25 ride count so £2.80 a ride which in that sense is good value. We didn't have to rush around and the park was busy-ish, so we'd have got nowhere near that ride count without Speedy Pass.

[@yourexperienceguide]

I think it’s great value when used to its full potential, it can work out cheaper than what BPB used to be in their PPR days.

[@robanglesea9696]

How much is the Speedy pass sorry if I missed it in the video. And is it on rides for one use? Thanks in advance

[@yourexperienceguide]

£45, we discussed in the video which rides it can be used on and how often

[@jamiesiverns4446]

Know u don't like it but u lot definitely need to give hot ice another go this season! :D do u know of they're still doing half the show free in the afternoons this season?

[@yourexperienceguide]

Hmmm, maybe 🤔 Not sure about the free show sorry.

[@dougbriglmen716]

Given the recent changes to easy pass, there is a strong chance that I’m probably going to get VIP speedy pass from now on provided everything outside of the social distancing list stays available most of the time on your day. Night riding events in particular is probably when it’s needed the most.

[@yourexperienceguide]

The changes to the easy pass have been done to stop it being abused and used as a speedy pass.

[@dougbriglmen716]

@@yourexperienceguide yes I know as you said that on experience chat, regardless the main priority for me is getting on as much as I want and if that means paying extra for VIP speed pass then so be it.

[@yourexperienceguide]

@@dougbriglmen716 The main priority for everyone is to have a good time but the way to do it isn’t by abusing a system. If it’s unlimited rides you want you’ll need to buy speedy pass.

[@dougbriglmen716]

@@yourexperienceguide That’s what I’m saying, I do want unlimited rides and if that means buying a vip speedy pass then so be it.

[@richpmanser1981]

How do you book speedy if you only have one phone as I'll be one adult and 2 kids so all tickets on my phone. If I have to book individually then will they all start at the same time?

[@yourexperienceguide]

You’ll need to go straight to guest services on the day of your visit unless the system to do it online and in advance is fully developed before your visit.

[@COLINHILLSWIMS]

I can’t work out how to buy a speedy pass with my season pass online with a discount? There seems to be no option to buy a speedy pass after you select the date on the season pass section. Can anyone help?

[@yourexperienceguide]

Unfortunately it has to be done on the day at present, however there’s a system being developed for it to be done on the app.

[@scotscub76]

Whats the difference between speedy pass and easy pass. I have a medical condition where I cant stand long without symptoms. I used an app 2 years ago? I thought it was great and fair that we had to wait as long as everyone else. As long as im not standing long I dont care. I took a mobility scooter in. Would i be permitted to take my own smaller one in this year? Thanks.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Speedy Pass is a fast track type of system, the £25 offering means you can book the rides but have to virtually queue the same amount of time as the main queue is. VIP cuts the queues by 90%. Easy pass isn’t for everyone and each request to use it is handled individually by BPB depending on the medical situation of the person/people looking to use it. I highly recommend asking Pleasure Beach about it as easy pass is something I’ve never used so I don’t know much about it.

[@scotscub76]

@@yourexperienceguide thanks for your reply much appreciated. Sounds like what I used last time i was there

[@y__1330]

do you think it will be busy on saturday as it’s during a school term weekend compared to last week?

[@yourexperienceguide]

Not sure sorry

[@y__1330]

@@yourexperienceguide no problem , is every major ride in full operation, as i’ve seen some news of the big one and grand national occasionally being broken down?

[@yourexperienceguide]

@@y__1330 We discussed the PMBO situation in the video

[@rossnolan2883]

Cool 😎

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thanks for watching and commenting 🎢

[@rossnolan2883]

@@yourexperienceguide 😊😊

[@manchester1972]

Great vid as per... Just one thing, good job this isn't dragons den. Lol... How much is the bloody pass... Hahaha... Noticed you got the price of the merch in.. Good buisnessman Scott.

[@yourexperienceguide]

Oh, sorry lol! £45 for the VIP Speedy Pass 😆

[@twistedtrackstravel8771]

Dont they offer speedy pass wristbands? As im worried my battery will die an i dont really want to pay for them phone charger things.

[@yourexperienceguide]

It's all digital now

[@amie5458]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thanks for watching and commenting 🎢

[@jamesduffield4169]

Can you still use that little gadget they used to give you or is it just the qr code?

[@yourexperienceguide]

It's just on the BPB e-ticket "app" now

[@stephenmorgan2508]

I've seen you at pleasure beach, I nearly said hello to you guys but I didn't want to pester you. I'm a big fan of what you do, and I love the big 1 but icon is my number 1

[@stephenmorgan2508]

Back seat is so much better for me

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you for your support Stephen

[@sincerelyinsincere9268]

I saw Scott in the Big One queue x years back (I'm a grown man btw!) and you'd think I'd just seen an A list celeb :) I should have gone up and said hello but I bottled it, lol.

[@yourexperienceguide]

@@sincerelyinsincere9268 I’m always happy to say hello ☺️ I’m just a numpty with a camera lol

[@timduncan9745]

Hi scott.saw you today at Blackpool pleasure beach but you was deep in conversation with a geezer who was hanging around on big one before it eventually opened so did not like it butt in..what were tv crew doing on big one this morning that seemed to delay the opening..saw them in park later too...cheers buddy..from tim of leeds

[@timduncan9745]

To butt in not it

[@yourexperienceguide]

We were also working on the Big One this morning, hope you had a good day

[@timduncan9745]

@@yourexperienceguide yes thanks Scott..been on park for 3 days now.stopping in one of the suites in big blue.first holiday for ages due to covid Glad we invested in the suite it's well worth the money.watching people climbing the big one at the moment😁👍

[@yourexperienceguide]

@@timduncan9745 Awesome, I nearly signed onto the 6pm walk tonight but couldn’t commit to it in the end sadly

[@dougbriglmen716]

Hopefully the rides that are currently not available on speedy pass will be added back on once the social distancing is no longer needed. Cus for rides with very low capacity or throughput it really really important.

[@yourexperienceguide]

It’s not an issue for me that not every ride is on the pass

[@dougbriglmen716]

@@yourexperienceguide But that’s probably because you’re not interested in getting on as Many rides as I do.

[@yourexperienceguide]

@@dougbriglmen716 How do you know that?

[@dougbriglmen716]

@@yourexperienceguide because if you were then you would be more bothered about it, Plus I know for a fact that there are some rides that I enjoy that you don’t like I know you don’t enjoy sky force and very seldom do it these days.

[@yourexperienceguide]

@@dougbriglmen716 Stop assuming what I do and don’t want to go on when visiting BPB 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@natpriest7033]

Hello you put euro 2020 is that right or wrong ?

[@yourexperienceguide]

Select Euro 2020 games will be shown in The Hub

[@Mikeb1001]

The tournament is still branded as Euro 2020 as it was supposed to be played last year

[@ctRusx]

im going again on the 20th. last went 3 weeks ago

[@yourexperienceguide]

Have a good time 🎢

[@rebeccabatt8336]

Hi do u recommend normal speedy pass or vip

[@yourexperienceguide]

Entirely depends on the day to be honest

[@rebeccabatt8336]

@@yourexperienceguide we going in summer holidays

[@zebradee2009]

Can you share vip pass between people. Was going to buy two for 2 adults and 1 kid

[@yourexperienceguide]

You need one per person but it can be done on one device

[@damiantyler7272]

With the vip speedy pass is it unlimited riding

[@yourexperienceguide]

Depends which tier you buy

[@MrSless10]

Plenty rate BPB as the best theme park in the uk due to having the best rides (as you stated at the start of vlog) but hear im not so sure! Towers and Thrope both have better rides? Be good to do a vlog to state which rides are better than each other etc

[@yourexperienceguide]

Pleasure Beach has the best coaster lineup followed by Thorpe Park in my opinion

[@MrSless10]

@@yourexperienceguide I understand that we all have opinions and you can't knock them but then to say that BPB has the best rides in uk is a strange one as not many people would agree that Nemesis, Swarm, Stealth, Smiler, Ulitimate, Wickerman, Megafobia, Inferno (all just examples) would be rated lower than rides at BPB. Only 2 decent rides present at BPB in Bigone and Icon that would get involved in the mix, other than that believe the majority of the public would agree that BPB rides are great but not the UK's best! Get a vlog going and see the response

[@MrSless10]

need a reply on this one

[@bradleyparker4700]

At the end what is that stage for where trormer towers used to be

[@Mikeb1001]

It’s the DJ stage for Late Night Riding

[@yourexperienceguide]

No permanent replacement yet

[@bradleyparker4700]

@@yourexperienceguide could it of been for that bongo bingo

[@yourexperienceguide]

@@bradleyparker4700 Yeah more than likely

[@JmeJ83]

Speedy pass entrance is not visible on most rides entrances

[@yourexperienceguide]

How do you mean?

[@Bee-xz8ci]

Can you buy the vip speedy pass over the phone call

[@yourexperienceguide]

I don’t know, we spoke about most of what we know about it on this video

[@ihuman_yt5956]

What happens with speedy pass as a family ? Example 2 adults 2 children , Do you need to buy one for each person ? Hope not because thats just a rip off.

[@yourexperienceguide]

It’s clearly not a rip off though is it? Four people skipping the queue is still four people whether you’re a family of 4 or a group of 4 friends.

[@theme_parkmad]

Allow me to agree with what you said about the Big One on the back row at 7:11 :)

[@yourexperienceguide]

The airtime it does have is under appreciated at times

[@glittergirl3242]

I went to Blackpool pleasure beach today and we got a speedy pass but I had to use my brothers phone because my battery went down so fast because I had to use a lot of my mobile data

[@yourexperienceguide]

Thank you for watching and commenting

[@seany84uk]

Great video lots of info i wanted to know about the pass was told :) Its still pricey but like others say compared to other parks it isnt. I still wish the park went fully wristband/ticket free as the QR code for every ride still seems backwards etc but hey i guess they have to try something different to see if it works.

[@yourexperienceguide]

I think it’s good value when used to its fullest, which we didn’t in fairness but still got on plenty. Thank you for watching 😀

[@seany84uk]

@@yourexperienceguide yes you did well :)

[@deanrose245]

I went last yr and went to get the speedy pass but it was explained to me that it doesn’t include all rides and basically looking at the included list and unincluded list of rides for it all the main rides wasn’t included so there was no point in getting it! Useless

[@yourexperienceguide]

£45 to skip a large number of queues an unlimited amount of time whilst also leaving plenty of time to do other rides is not useless.

[@deanrose245]

@@yourexperienceguide £45 is excessive and yes at the time 4 of the main rides wasn’t included that day! They was warning others too this last last yr when you reopened. So yeah at that time it was useless to pay for it

[@yourexperienceguide]

@@deanrose245 £45 for repeat rides all day on more than ten rides isn’t useless or excessive. I don’t work for BPB, this is my opinion.

[@deanrose245]

@@yourexperienceguide and the above is my opinion and experience at that time. So you have yours and I’ll have mine.

[@yourexperienceguide]

@@deanrose245 Not sure why you made a comment about “us reopening” which is why I said I don’t work for BPB. Just needed to clarify that.

[@GeorgegamingYT]

I'm here first

[@yourexperienceguide]

So did you enjoy the video?

[@Lancaster431]

Why was the pepsi max renamed?

[@yourexperienceguide]

It wasn’t, it’s still sponsored by Pepsi Max.

[@Lancaster431]

Ok mark

[@ajlavell1]

I'm the 1st commenter so wow

[@yourexperienceguide]

Second, but more importantly did you enjoy the video?

[@ajlavell1]

@@yourexperienceguide well of course but back in 17 of Aprils I saw you at the pleasure beach at the ghost train ramp ill give it a higher score

[@gchrome7417]

Love the channel but yous are getting ad heavy which is a shame

[@yourexperienceguide]

We have had ads rolling at the start and end of our videos for 3/4 years now, and longer videos have two ads “mid way through” occasionally. Without ad revenue this channel wouldn’t produce content as frequently or by using high quality equipment.