Cool Place of the Day: Number One South Beach, Blackpool
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Your support makes all the difference.The St Anne’s Kite Festival takes place every year on the last weekend of July. It's a local Lancashire carnival and kite-flying event that fills the sky with colour and also gives us the excuse to retreat to what is, at the end of the day, one of our favourite UK seaside resorts – Blackpool – and one of its best places to stay.
The name may be straight out of Miami but Number One South Beach is Blackpool through-and-through. The boutique guest house is a small-but-perfectly-formed hotel venture from the owners of Number One St Luke's B&B in the same neighbourhood. It has a near as damn it seafront location and offers a choice of fourteen rooms with names like "Passion" and "Decadence", many of which have balconies and sea and promenade views, and all have a chic, modern but thoroughly seaside vibe. King-sized beds and whirlpool baths are standard, while two of the front rooms ("Indulge" and "Spirit") have contemporary four-poster beds and spacious balconies.
Pleasure Beach is just a short walk away, or jump on a seafront tram up to the Tower and the town centre. The in-house bar is always open for guests, while a bookings-only restaurant takes care of lazy nights when all you want to do is chill, South-Beach style.
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