Visit The Blackpool Tower!

It’s the Fylde Coasts favourite attraction! Visit the The Blackpool Tower for top-to-toe fun for all the family! The Fylde Coast’s landmark attraction includes shows, attractions and fun for all the family. It’s also a fascinating example of local history, heritage and culture.

Visit The Blackpool Tower!

From down in the Dungeon to the very top, there’s something for everyone inside this magical landmark building! Read on for more information about each of these fabulous attractions and experiences…

Please Note…

• PRE-BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL – Please pre-book tickets online before you visit any of the Merlin attractions in Blackpool.
• CASHLESS ATTRACTIONS – These are all cashless attractions. Please be ready to make on-site payments using a contactless bank card.

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The Blackpool Tower Ballroom

Experience The Blackpool Tower Ballroom in true style. It’s known and celebrated throughout the world for both its stunning architecture and fantastic dance floor, making it the perfect place for Afternoon Tea.

You can dance the day away to the sounds of the famous Wurlitzer organ amidst this stunning setting, or watch from the side lines as you enjoy a delicious afternoon tea in Blackpool. Whether you want to glide around the dance floor, relax at your table or spectate from up on the balconies, it’s an experience you will never forget.

The iconic Ballroom underwent a massive £1.1M refurbishment during the Covid closures, to make it really sparkle! A team of highly skilled craftsmen spent more than 21,000 hours over a period of six months, restoring the famous venue to its original glory. It’s the most extensive programme of work and deep cleaning for more than 60 years. It was funded with a lifeline grant of £764,000 from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. Plus further funding from Blackpool Council to make up the total £1.1M.

Over the years The Blackpool Tower has benefitted from a number of conservation schemes, more about them here.

The Blackpool Tower Circus

The Blackpool Tower Circus performed uninterrupted for 125 years and through two world wars – until the pandemic!

Join Mooky and Mr Boo and friends, for a show of skill, comedy and talent in the iconic Blackpool Tower Circus arena.

And give a warm welcome to the World-class contemporary variety show High Jinx Magic and Illusion Show, performing at selected times in The Blackpool Tower Circus arena! Created by award-winning illusionist and magician Michael Jordan, High Jinx brings 90 minutes of sensational tricks, illusions, juggling, escapology and much more to The Blackpool Tower Circus.

There’s such a lot of history embedded in the walls of the Circus space. From Charlie Cairoli to the 2018 celebratory event and a big parade on the Festival Headland!

The Blackpool Tower Eye

Take a trip 380ft into the sky to the Tower Eye and experience the thrilling SkyWalk. Take in the best views across the North West of England from the top of the iconic Tower. Open daily from Easter to November, subject to weather.

Start your journey to the sky with a stop at their incredible 4D cinema. The multi-sensory special effects and incredible filming techniques bring the history of The Blackpool Tower to life. It’s a thrill for kids and adults alike! Then take the trip a whopping 380ft to the top of The Blackpool Tower and experience the awesome Sky Walk and stunning panoramic views across the North West.

Dare you walk on the glass?

Stride out if you dare onto the thick safety glass viewing platform, where you can look out over the sparkling Irish Sea and see the famous Blackpool Promenade spread out below you. Way below you! You can also stop by Bar380 for some refreshments in truly elevated style, whilst you drink in the spectacular views.

See the North West of England laid before you with clear day views over Bowland, up to the Lake District, down to Liverpool and even across to the Isle of Man!

Bar 380

The only bar in Blackpool where you can see the entire Fylde coastline – and beyond! Access to Bar 380 is included as part of all tickets to The Blackpool Tower Eye. Enjoy a relaxing drink and take in the views. Along with spectacular views, Cocktails, Mocktails, beers and soft drinks are on the menu. Enjoy it all in style, 380ft in the sky at the top of The Tower!

Soak up the atmosphere at the most exclusive bar in town with DJs and artists playing live. Look out for details of events and acoustic evenings. Sunset Sessions take place on selected summer dates.

The Blackpool Tower Dungeon

Step back into the darkest of times and experience live actors, thrilling rides and exciting special effects. It’s a thrilling and fun adventure that will leave your family screaming for more!

Scary true stories, ‘orrible actors and a thrilling drop ride to end on – explore 1,000 years of Lancashire’s history. A uniquely thrilling attraction that will whisk you way back to the town’s most perilous past. See, hear, feel and (ahem) smell the chillingly amusing characters of the ‘bad old days’ as they come to life before you. Will you lose yourself in fear or in mirth? Whichever way, it’s not looking good for your underwear…

Do you remember the Blackpool Tower Aquarium, which occupied this corner before the Dungeon opened?

Experience a full cast of brilliant actors in ten shows backed with laughs and frights. You’ll pass through Lytham Priory, meet the Doctor and be judged in an unfair court. See and feel the effects of the plague, visit the torture chamber in Lancaster Castle, and meet the Vikings.

Plus a whole host of authentic sets, amazing special effects and an exciting drop ride. Together they make The Dungeon the best attraction for those who like a mix of fun and fear. We went to the original opening of the Dungeon. Here’s our video of what you can expect –

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Dino Golf

Travel back in time and roar like a Dinosaur at The Blackpool Tower’s Dino Mini Golf attraction. Try your hand at nine holes of prehistoric fun for a truly Dino-Mite day out! Get in touch with our team to book in your ROAR-SOME adventure! Great for team building or for some just great old fashioned fun!

The Fifth Floor

It’s a fabulous event space, available for private hire, parties and events! It’s in the space right under the legs of this famous building – in fact you can SEE the legs in the roof space! Formerly Jungle Jim’s it was refitted and reshaped during the summer of 2019. It’s now this multi-use, themed entertainment and event space.

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Did you Know?

With 125 years of history crammed inside, there’s plenty of things you might not know about Blackpool’s favourite landmark. Find out more about the beginnings and the history of this amazing building here.

• Old attractions at The Tower include an aviary, aquarium and menagerie.
• It used to take the maintenance team approximately seven years to paint the building from top to bottom. Now it’s a much quicker process.
• When it first opened entry was sixpence! Now it’s free to enter and explore.
• There’s a post box located in The Blackpool Tower Eye making it one of the highest post boxes in the country.
• The Blackpool Tower has struggled to find someone brave enough to clean the windows 380ft in the air. But in its 125^th year it finally found someone brave enough!
• In August 2025, Blackpool Council took back management of The Blackpool Tower from Merlin.

Famous Faces

• The Blackpool Tower sparked the resort’s reputation as a seaside holiday destination. Over 3,000 people lined the promenade on its opening day in 1894 to see the impressive views.
• Famous faces who have visited include Hollywood director Tim Burton, Princess Diana, Take That and even King Kong himself who was seen swinging from The Blackpool Tower in 1984.
• The Ballroom has hosted Strictly Come Dancing’s Blackpool Special nine times. Celebrities such as Stacey Dooley, Alexandra Burke, Ed Balls and Ore Oduba have all graced the famous dancefloor.
• Don’t be scared to jump up and down on the glass skywalk found at the top of The Blackpool Tower Eye. It can hold the weight of two elephants!
• The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited in March 2019 and were seen admiring the dancing in the Ballroom.

Never Miss a Season!

• Up to coronavirus in 2020, The Blackpool Tower has never missed a circus season in 125 years, even during the two World Wars! That’s well over 45,000 shows which equates to more than 10 years of performing back to back.
• It generated its own electricity until 1924.
• It has featured in major Hollywood films from Oscar-nominated film Phantom Thread and Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children.
• The Tower Circus searches for its acts from all over the world. Many different nationalities appear including Hungarian, Argentinian, Cuban and Mexican acts.
• Up until 1990, the Circus show featured animals including lions, polar bears, tigers and elephants.

Crowning Jewel

• The Blackpool Tower Dungeon is one of only a handful of Dungeon attractions found in the world. Other Dungeons can be found in London, Shanghai, Amsterdam and San Francisco.
• The Tower is the crowning jewel in the resort’s illuminations period (August – January). Every year, a team of engineers scale the building to check and replace the 25,000 light bulbs that illuminate it at night.
• The Tower Circus is one of only four circuses in the world to have a water feature finale. The incredible spectacle sees the arena under the circus ring fill with over 42,000 gallons of water in less than one minute.
• In 1985, an escapologist married his wife in a steel cage, suspended on high!
• The Tower was one of three buildings in the UK, inspired by the Eiffel Tower. It’s the only one still standing.

It’s very own pub

• It has its own Red Lion pub, opened in 2018 by ‘The Red Lioness’. This pub fanatic has visited over 650 Red Lions in the UK.
• It cost almost £300,000 (the equivalent of over £40 million in 2019) to build The Tower.
• Phil Kelsall MBE, the resident organist, is now the Tower’s longest serving organist at more than 42 years, eclipsing Reginald Dixon’s record which he held between 1930 – 1970.
• Peter Kay’s filmed ‘Live At The Top of The Tower’ in the Circus ring. It’s the performance that gained him mainstream media attention and helped set him on his career to stardom.
• Charlie Cairoli, one of the most recognisable names in the circus industry, was the resident clown at the Circus between 1939 – 1979.

And, did you know, there’s even a train called The Blackpool Tower!