{"id":38997,"date":"2021-04-06T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T21:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38997"},"modified":"2021-04-06T19:11:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:11:04","slug":"blackpool-heritage-tram-tours-to-resume-from-saturday-29th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38997","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours to resume from Saturday 29th May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest heritage tramway to confirm their reopening plans for the 2021 season is Blackpool\u2019s Heritage Tram Tours with the first public heritage trams scheduled to run on Saturday 29<sup>th<\/sup> May and then on selected dates for the rest of the year. The familiar pattern seen in 2020 of pre-booked tours will be in operation again with dates announced for Promenade Tours, Coastal Tours and Illumination Tours.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As with 2020, social distancing will still be in place on board the trams which means each tour will have strictly limited availability and pre-booking will be required to secure your place on the tour \u2013 booking is now open for all dates in 2021. The Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours website gives full details of what dates tours will be running and then on each day what type of tour is running, what time and what type of tram (Vintage, Open Top Single decker, Double decker etc.). Tours don\u2019t run on every day from 29<sup>th<\/sup> May although there should be plenty of dates available to suit your trip to Blackpool (there isn\u2019t the room to list every single date tours do run here so please check the official website \u2013 link at the bottom of the article).<\/p>\n<p>The different types of tours which will run are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promenade Tour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">North Pier &amp; Tower-Little Bispham-Pleasure Beach-North Pier &amp; Tower<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Adults: \u00a34, Children: \u00a32<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coastal Tour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">North Pier &amp; Tower-Fleetwood-Pleasure Beach-North Pier &amp; Tower<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Adult: \u00a36, Children: \u00a33<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Illumination Tour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Pleasure Beach-Little Bispham-Pleasure Beach<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Monday to Thursday \u2013 Adult: \u00a38, Children: \u00a34, Family ticket: \u00a320<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Friday to Sunday \u2013 Adult: \u00a310, Children: \u00a35, Family ticket: \u00a325<\/p>\n<p>With the restricted availability on board and each passenger being shown to their seats by the conductor these will not be hop on-hop off tours with boarding only available at the starting point of the tour. There won\u2019t be the option of Travelcards this year, but a Tour Pass can be purchased for \u00a315 which allows you to book any four individual Coastal or Promenade tours during the year.<\/p>\n<p>Details of special tours \u2013 such as The Ghost Tram and some new favourites \u2013 will follow in due course.<\/p>\n<p>Its been written many a time on this website and elsewhere but 2021 will continue to be a different year for our heritage tramways and this pre-booked model was successful in Blackpool last year and with the continued restrictions in place (and even as part of the roadmap we can\u2019t see there not being social distancing measures and things such as face coverings required for some time yet) will be the way ahead for a while yet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To see which tours are running on which day and to book your place on any tour during 2021 visit the Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours website at <a href=\"https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/\">https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest heritage tramway to confirm their reopening plans for the 2021 season is Blackpool\u2019s Heritage Tram Tours with the first public heritage trams scheduled to run on Saturday 29th May and then on selected dates for the rest of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38997\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38998,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38997\/revisions\/38998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}