GoldWing Light Parade Venue to be announced on March 8th

A new Venue for the GoldWing Light Parade has been identified and agreement has been reached with the proprietors on attractive terms.

Detailed information will be released on this Website on March 8th, which is when the Venue will be ready to accept bookings.

The Event Organisers are very sorry it’s taken a while to get this far but it has not been easy to find a suitable alternative following the closure of Pontin’s, where the Event had been based successfully for some years.  (There was a glimmer of hope that the Pontin’s Site would re-open under different management but this is not going to happen; demolition is already taking place and the Site is likely to be used for housing development.  Blackpool has a close season once the Illuminations have finished and some of the potential venues were closed.)

We are confident that this new Venue is suitable.  A complex Event like the Light Parade has elaborate and to some extent conflicting requirements and the Organisers have considered a wide variety of options.  Several options were pursued in some detail only to end up proving to be unsuitable.

However we are confident that Wingers are not going to be disappointed by the new Venue which in most respects will be an improvement on Pontin’s, including both quality of accommodation and value for money.   It’s also well placed for purposes of the Best Lit Bike Competition and the Parade itself.

Please accept our apologies for being mysterious about precisely where and what it is at the moment, but it is in everyone’s interests for the Venue to be ready to accept bookings as soon as it’s announced, not least because Pontin’s never quite managed that and one of the improvements we have been working towards is a more accessible and reliable booking system.

One thing we can tell you straight away is that accommodation at the Venue will cost only £35 per person per night for dinner bed and breakfast, and this is for accommodation which we believe is significantly better than the best of the Pontin’s Chalets.  The same discounted rate applies for extra nights too.   Single accommodation will also be available without any supplementary charges and there is accommodation which is suitable for families as well as couples.  We’ve even negotiated discounted bar prices too.

We look forward to welcoming all GoldWing riders, their families and friends, including of course  GWOCGB Members to our Event as friends and fellow Wingers.  GWOCGB Regions are welcome to display their badges and banners during the Parade and to advertise their own events as they wish – indeed we will help them to do so on request, as we did for the South Wales Wing Ding last year.

For further information please visit the GoldWing Light Parade Website.

It’s going to be a Great Weekend!