The 'worst' resort with an awful reputation for 'druggies and Mancunian ex-cons' - but it COULD be paradise
Come rain or shine, families enjoy getting out in the fresh sea air, spending their pennies at the arcades and chowing down on fish and chips. And with around 1,500 beaches in the UK and Ireland, we really are spoilt for choice when it comes to a seaside stay-cation.
Michelle Clarke, who is originally from Manchester but moved to the area five years ago, enjoys taking photographs of the seafront at least once a week. "I just love the calmness of the sea," she tells me. "It's beautiful." Dog walker, Allan Jones, from Hereford, is just visiting whilst he cat sits for a friend in the area. The 77-year-old comments: "It's all very well along the front but once you get beyond, it's all very dowdy."
He talks about the town's heyday when busy hotels and guesthouses overlooked the sea, but they have since been taken over as multioccupancy flats. "When you've got adverts in the prisons in Manchester saying 'go live in Rhyl by the sea'... It's the same as any other town centre, no worse no better. Every area has got one.
During my visit on a Tuesday lunchtime in March, I struggle to find a traditional fish and chip shop, fairground rides are at a standstill, while shutters remain drawn on ice-cream parlours along the promenade - which apparently only open in the summer months. But things could be on the up for Rhyl, as in recent years the council has made an effort to turn things around.
"You could put Rhyl into any major city, Manchester, London, and it would be paradise," he begins. "It has a bad reputation but as far as I'm concerned, it's a nice place. There is never any trouble in the town, prices are reasonable. There is good and bad in everywhere. Rhyl is turning the corner."
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