{"id":61433,"date":"2026-01-01T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61433"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:56:36","slug":"last-few-tickets-remain-for-blackpool-illumination-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61433","title":{"rendered":"Last few tickets remain for Blackpool Illumination Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a brief and limited season but your last chance to take HMS Blackpool, the Illuminated Frigate, on an Illumination Tour is here with just two more nights of tours to come. The Frigate will set sail on Friday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and Saturday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> January with the last few tickets for these tours now available.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As is the norm now, Blackpool\u2019s famous Illuminations remain alight until the first weekend of January, and the 2025 Illuminations have been no different. And the Frigate has been continuing to run most weekends since the heritage trams first returned to the rails in October, with many of its planned tours having been sell outs.<\/p>\n<p>The last six tours will take place as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> January at 1730 \u2013 SOLD OUT<\/li>\n<li>Friday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> January at 1900 \u2013 SOLD OUT<\/li>\n<li>Friday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> January at 2030<\/li>\n<li>Saturday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> January at 1730 \u2013 SOLD OUT<\/li>\n<li>Saturday 3rd January at 1900 \u2013 LIMITED REMAINING<\/li>\n<li>Saturday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> January at 2030<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jane Cole, Blackpool Transport Managing Director, said: \u201cThe sight of the much-loved HMS Blackpool tram, and occasionally our popular \u2018balloon\u2019 double-decker, has brought a smile to the faces of young and old alike over the past couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really proud of all the hard work done by the Blackpool Transport team to bring them back into service, and although they will now be taking a short break, we\u2019re already making plans for tours next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once the final tour runs on Saturday evening, the heritage trams will again be taking a break. But as was originally mentioned when they did return to the rails during Lightpool Festival in October a review of their future operation would only start in the new year once the Illumination Tours had come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for all Illumination Tours are available online at <a href=\"https:\/\/fareharbor.com\/embeds\/book\/blackpoolheritage\/items\/286168\/calendar\/2026\/01\/\">https:\/\/fareharbor.com\/embeds\/book\/blackpoolheritage\/items\/286168\/calendar\/2026\/01\/<\/a>. They cost \u00a315 for adults and \u00a310 for children and also include unlimited travel on the modern trams for the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a brief and limited season but your last chance to take HMS Blackpool, the Illuminated Frigate, on an Illumination Tour is here with just two more nights of tours to come. The Frigate will set sail on Friday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61433\">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\/61433"}],"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=61433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61434,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61433\/revisions\/61434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}