Beach House Christmas By The Sea

Blackpool Gazette

The owner of the Beach House Bar and Bistro talks about how the Christmas By The Sea celebrations have benefitted her business and lots of others across Blackpool.

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00:00Hello, my name is Luke Patrick, I'm a reporter for Blackpool Gazette.

00:04I'm here to talk to the owner of the Beach House Bistro and Bar here on Blackpool Promenade

00:09about how the Christmas 1C celebrations have impacted trade, how they've managed to keep

00:15the Beach House luxury brand since it opened in 2012, and the new renovations they are

00:21planning in January.

00:23Hi, I'm Cheryl Trevanyan, I am one of the family owners at Beach House Blackpool, which

00:29is the restaurant bar on the promenade.

00:32Are you excited about the Christmas 1C celebrations when you heard it was coming to Blackpool

00:37again this year, and what it might mean for your business?

00:41Always excited about new things coming to Blackpool, Blackpool for me, it's got it all.

00:49You have to understand that new opportunities, new investment is all positive, and Christmas

00:59by the sea, it's got bigger and better, it's just great.

01:03How has it impacted the business, have you seen an uptick of people coming into the bar

01:09or anything like that?

01:11I think particularly at the weekend, weekends have been fantastic for us, a lot of people

01:17in Blackpool, it's just so good to see Blackpool busy in November, it's amazing.

01:24To go along the promenade and see families around, for us, we're busy anyway at weekends,

01:33but November is a bit of a slow month, but Christmas by the sea has definitely improved

01:41our business.

01:42And I guess it's that on top of the illuminations and stuff like that as well.

01:47To carry the illuminations through all the way is fabulous, and I think that it's really

01:54important to understand the investment that the town make into these things, it's a collaboration

02:02of independent businesses, of Blackpool Council coming together to continue to keep Blackpool

02:08on the map as the number one seaside destination.

02:14So how important do you think, you've talked about it a little bit there, but how important

02:19do you think Christmas by the sea is to Blackpool businesses, who maybe like this one, might

02:24not get a lot of business in November or December potentially?

02:29Well I think we can look at this two ways, some of us that predominantly work a season

02:35in Blackpool can think, oh no, we've got to work the winter now, but it's good, it can't

02:42be anything other than positive.

02:45Christmas by the sea has definitely improved, it has to have improved all the businesses

02:51along the promenade.

02:52Summers are tough because we can never guess how the weather is, for me this is a boost,

02:57this is a bonus, this is something extra that Blackpool is giving to the local businesses.

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