Booked to stay for New Year 2008 into 2009. Hotel carried an advertisement in the Daily Mirror and looked well presented, read very well and above all the impressions on the hotel website looked above the standards expected for Blackpool. On arrival this was a very different story, my heart sank!! Initially welcomed with a cup of weak coffee, first impressions of the hotel were old fashioned (in the wrong sense) retro 50's furniture and decor. After an hour in the 'bar lounge' nursing our weak coffee we had to ask to be shown to our rooms. The room itself was sold as a double room (#16), however the ability to fit a double bed into a room does not necessarily mean a 'double' room in my opinion. The room was app. 7ft x 8ft in size and the rear of the the bed headboard had to be negotiated in order to enter the shower/WC (sink was next to the bed along with the rooms sole towel, a handtowel), again the size of this room was in the category of 'compact' at app. 5ft x 5ft maximum... more