Blackpool Pleasure Beach hotel "The Big Blue Hotel" with a four star AA rating, situated adjacent to Blackpool Pleasure Beach railway station towards the south end of Ocean Boulevard opened in Spring 2003. In 2019 a second hotel will open on Ocean Boulevard. Featuring 120 rooms, 10 suites and function rooms, the hotel has been named The Boulevard Hotel and is expected to open in the Spring. The hotel replaces the former Starr Pub and Coasters Restaurant and sits adjacent to The Big Blue Hotel on the south end of the promenade. Pleasure Beach is alleged to be haunted by several ghosts and
Cooden Beach railway station Cooden Beach railway station Cooden Beach serves Cooden at the western end of Bexhill in East Sussex. It is on the East Coastway Line, and train services are provided by Southern. The station was first opened on 11 September 1905 as "Cooden Golf Halt" to serve a growing area of new, mainly high quality, housing located close to the beach (hence its later name). By 1922, the name had been simplified to "Cooden Halt". With the growing housing development of the 1930s and the electrification of the line a new enlarged station was built adopting its present name of "Cooden