The Lifeboat Inn - Blackpool

Always visit the lifeboat when in Blackpool but I have to agree what's been said smelly toilets etc but the bar staff always been OK with us but there biggest downfall was letting Lorraine and George go they made that pub not the same we saw them next door I ma Kelly's brilliant afternoon

The whole pub is disgusting, floor is sticky, the filthy tables, the walls dirty, doors you dont want to touch with your bare hands, the ceiling is still a nicotine yellow. It looks like the place hasn't been decorated (or cleaned!! for over 30 years. It's dark inside but it does not hide the mucky surroundings, every surface feels and looks unclean. Very much feels like a health hazard and there is an urge to go straight home to shower. Forgot to mention the toilets, horendous combination of urine and the most strongest bleech smell . I don't know how it's possible for a toilet to smell so overpowering of bleech yet still feel and stink so bad. It churns your stomach everytime some unfortunate individual opens the toilet door and lets our a blast of wee and bleech flavoured air into the bar for all to inhale. It's worse on a hot day, the bleech and urine seem to have some sort of greenhouse effect. So if it's 25 degrees outside it feels like 50 degrees inside. Finally the staff, don't argue with the bar maids. If you ask for a pint of lager and one of them pour you a guiness, just politely say thankyou, wish them a nice day and take your pint they have chosen for you to your sticky table. Same for being charged different amounts, you may get charged 10 quid for your round, then your mate gets charged £9.20 for the same drinks, just go with it. No point disagreeing with them as she will attack you like a rottweiler as they are always right. The door man is great though and a good laugh. There is the usual tone deaf standard of drunken blackpool karaoke singers. Listening to the screeching down the microphone helps to distract from the unpleasant surroundings you find yourself in I suppose. Still the place gets busy somehow so there is a type of clientele that seem to like the pre smoking ban nicotine tinge of the ceiling, the sticky tables, dirty surfaces and the stench from the toilets. I have a mate like this who drags us all to this hole everytime we visit Blackpool. For me one pint is enough, have a quick giggle about the place and check if they have painted over the nicotine yet (answer is always no . But then i can't wait to get out into the sunlight to breath fresh air, decontaminate myself and cool down from the Venus atmosphere of urine and bleach inside. Sorry for the not so raving review but recalling this place makes me feel unwell with the urge to vomit. Despite being over 100 miles away right now I feel I can still taste the air in the place. The building needs knocking down.

Absolute dump the toilets are a disgrace yer eyes start watering when you use them you wipe your feet when you leave not when you walk in the bar staff are the most misrable you could have behind a bar go to doors down to the ardwick cheaper and spotless and the bar staff are polite and friendly.

Went in for karaoke. Advertised open till 12, it wasn't. At 10.40 karaoke stopped and we were asked to finish our drinks. When the customers started complaining we were told by the rudest barmaid that it was an independent pub and they could do what they want! Never will we be going there again. It's a dive bar, manky and smelly too!

So went to the loo which I can 't say are the best but as I was coming out of the cubicle there 's a woman with her dress up round her waist knickers round her ankles peeing on the floor. Just stood there peeing! Then looked at me and said what? Filthy cow. I stepped over the pool of pee and a younger woman came through the door. Told her she might want to avoid but she said that 's me mam . Really enjoyed the atmosphere in this pub and it 's not the landlady 's fault but come on if this is the sort of people it 's attracting I won 't be going in again. Absolutely hanging