Since Victorian times, every seaside town worth mentioning had a pier, but in the latter years with the decline of the traditional seaside holiday many have simply disappeared into the sea. However Weston-super-Mare on the Somerset coast is hoping that a £50m rebuilding of it’s fire damaged pier might help the resort carry on bucking the trend.
The restored Grand Pier brings the pier into the 21st-century with numerous modern attractions including a laser maze, an aerial assault course, and a 4D cinema where the seats move and the audience gets sprayed with water.
Whether this will bring back the visitors to the town will remain to be seen, but it might depend partly on the attractions and partly on the family holidays which are the main-stay of these seaside towns. The new pier opens at the end of July 2010.
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Hotels in Weston-Super-Mare
Self-catering around Weston-Super-Mare
Weston-Super-Mare attractions
(Picture shows the pier before the 2008 fire).
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