Blackpool Audio Tour: The People Behind the Pleasure

Highlights GPS-triggered audio plays automatically as you approach each landmark - explore Blackpool at your own pace, with no group and no fixed start time. 9 stops across Blackpool, roughly 60 minutes of narration, walked in whatever order and at whatever speed suits you. Works fully offline once downloaded, so you need no data or signal while you walk. Your code never expires and there is no fixed date - buy now and use it whenever you next visit.   Explore Blackpool at your own pace Blackpool's towers and illuminations belong to the visitors. The streets and promenade between them belong to a different town - the tram drivers who ran Britain's first electric street tramway from 1885, the steeplejacks who fixed five million Accrington bricks into the sky, the ballroom organist who played for forty years without missing a Whit Sunday, the pier keepers who handed out deckchairs at dawn, the landladies on Charnley Road who took in mill workers by the dozen, the electricians who strung up eight arc lamps before Edison had patented the bulb. This is the Blackpool that the Blackpool Gazette and the boardinghouse registers remembered - the workers whose names rarely made it onto the illuminations.   Photo: Luke Ellis-Craven , Unsplash   Tour details Duration: 48 minutes, entirely at your own pace Distance: around 1.9 km (1.2 miles) Stops: 9 landmarks, including Blackpool North railway station, Winter Gardens, Church Street, Blackpool, Grand Theatre, Church Street, Blackpool Audio: up to 23 minutes of narration Starts at: Blackpool North railway station     How it works Book here and a redemption code arrives by email within minutes. Download the free AudaTours app on your phone and enter the code. Download the tour once and the whole thing works offline. Walk to the first stop and press play. The audio for each landmark starts automatically as you approach it, so your phone can stay in your pocket. There is no fixed date and no start time. The date you pick at checkout does not matter, and the tour stays on your phone permanently, so you can use it whenever you next visit and walk it again as often as you like.   What is included Professionally narrated audio that plays automatically at each stop An interactive map showing the walking route between landmarks Full offline access once downloaded, so you need no data or signal Freedom to start, pause and resume whenever you like Lifetime access - your code never expires   Where you will stop Blackpool North railway station Winter Gardens, Church Street, Blackpool Grand Theatre, Church Street, Blackpool Tower Ballroom, Blackpool Tower Blackpool Tower Comedy Carpet, Blackpool Tower, Central Promenade Blackpool Illuminations, Central Promenade Blackpool Promenade Tram Stop, North Promenade North Pier, Blackpool     What is AudaTours? AudaTours turns a walk through a city into a story. Our guides bring landmarks to life with the history, the scandals and the detail you would never get from a plaque. Immersive: real stories about the places in front of you, not a dry commentary Offline: download once and use it with no data, anywhere At your own pace: start, pause and resume whenever you want Accurate: every story is built from verified historical sources and checked before release   Good to know This is a self-guided audio tour on your own phone. There is no in-person guide. It does not include entry to any building or site along the route. The landmarks on the tour are not affiliated with AudaTours. You need a smartphone with Android 7.0 or later, or iOS 16 or later. Bring headphones and start with a charged phone.   Who it suits Solo travellers, couples, families and small groups who would rather explore on their own schedule than follow a guide and a fixed departure time. It suits a first visit, and it suits anyone who has already seen the famous sights and wants to know what actually happened in them.   Image credits Photos: Francis Heathcote , Luke Ellis-Craven , Mark mc neill , Stephen Kidd , Andrew Hall , Stephen Ingham (Unsplash).