If you were planning on vacationing in Blackpool during the festival of lights celebration, there are other things you can do there as well. The Blackpool Winter Gardens is a beautiful place to visit during your vacation and can enhance your whole experience.

The Winter Gardens is the home of the Blackpool opera house and it is divided into different types of rooms with different features. The Empress Ballroom has a capacity of 1000 guests to 3000 guests under its vaulted ceilings and crystal chandeliers. Depending on the organization hosted, usage of the room is changing like concerts and banquets to political conventions.

The Empress Ballroom has an access to the Arena which is another room with different uses. It can offer extra space for up to 600 guests and provide a warmer feeling for theatrical presentations or up to mid-sized meetings. The room is also able to offer complete blackout when necessary.

Blackpool Winter Gardens plays host to a number of conventions, conferences and banquets annually within the Olympia, Renaissance, Baronial and Spanish Halls. Each hall seats a couple hundred people max, and if the event is a large one, thousands of people can fit into a hall if standing room only is required.

The Horseshoe is a large exhibition area with an access to the Olympia. The Pavilion Theater is located in the center of the Horseshoe. It is a dedicated theater with a seating capacity of 600 people and it offers a friendly place for watching Blackpool shows. It is an interesting venue to host business meetings inside its flamboyant stylishness.

The Gardens also homes the UK’s largest dedicated theater, the Opera House and has a capacity of almost 3000 people including box and balcony seats. The stage has hosted world famous celebrities like Bob Hope, Judy Garland, and Frank Sinatra, and several West End productions played again as Blackpool shows.

Throughout the year, the site is in use and the festival of lights is the time which is most popular with the tourists, you can yourself think about the variety of choices in entertainment that are possible to have within this single place.

With access to the Olympia, the Horseshoe is a spacious exhibition area. In the center of the Horseshoe is the Pavilion Theater. A dedicated theater, seating only as many as 600 people, it provides an intimate venue for viewing blackpool shows. It is an interesting place to host business meetings, within its ornate elegance. If you were planning on vacationing in Blackpool during the festival of lights celebration, there are other things you can do there as well. The blackpool opera house is divided into various rooms for multipurpose activities. The blackpool winter gardens is a beautiful place to visit during your vacation and can enhance your whole experience.

- Trevor Sinclair