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Best and Worst in Prestatyn, Denbighshire*

Prestatyn, Denbighshire Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• despite being knocked down (boo-hoo), tower beach holds many a happy memory.
• The Orangery (Despite it's oranges having been removed)
• The old town Post Office (when it WAS a Post Office).
• Has got to be the tourist information office that never opens
• The Local Off Liscense, Royal Oak Stores. Owned by Gary, hes a star!!!!
• The Royal Victoria is by far the best building in Prestatyn(over 100years old) Queen Victoria is said to have stayed there(hence the name)
• Observatory house on the hillside.
• the train station (so i can leave)
• Victoria Hotel

Demolish It Now Building

• The Nova
• Fancynew add on to school
• The new ALDI supermarket - how did they get THAT ONE past the planners? You may well ask...
• The tourist information office for the reason above
• Denbighshire County Council Offices
• PRESTATYN HIGH SCHOOL
• New supermarket. Not built yet, not nice, not needed. ALDI (bastards)
• my flat...we probably wouldn't notice.
• The Council Offices - maybe then we'll see a non-penny pinching set of councillors rise from the ashes and do something decent for the town.
• The brand new council offices they're building despite the fact that they're sacking teachers due to the council being bankrupt!
• Pontins and The Children's Village in nearby Rhyl.

The Best Things

• Some of the older people are quite friendly. You can drive to Rhyl on a Friday or Saturday and watch the fighting for a laugh.
• the honest, sincere people still in the town (u know who u are)
• The hills, the amazing colour of the sky, sometimes.
• Has got to be the crazy golf near Pontins minutes of fun for a price
• spiceland Indian spices at their best.The only reason to leave Rhyl to come to Prestatyn
• Beer, The Beach and The sexy gorgeous women that live there. Wez has been with a lot of them.
• Real place, real people, not exciting but totally REAL. Stunningly good bookshop (high street).
• er um ah i'll get back to you!!
• The beautiful beaches and hillside.
• Nice walk from Prestatyn to Dyserth along old railway 2 and a bit miles if you dont mind the sringes beercans used condoms empty crisp packits broken glass and dog shit
• The hills. When it's clear you can see all up the coast of the Irish Sea, from Anglesy to the Cumbrian Hills.
• Very dog friendly area - they trip over their own stools in the High Street!
• That lovely sculpture with the very prominent nipples and salacious grin, at the bottom of the High Street.
• My dog, Buttie, who had a hysterectomy three years ago.
• It's nice to come home to Prestatyn when you work in Rhyl.
• Fish excellent at the Chippy.
• It's said that romance blossoms at the pier head.
• Sports facilities for all age groups.
• Dog friendly area.
• Start point for Offas Dyke and the doorway to north Wales.
• 5+ championship bowling greens.
• The 18 hole championship golf course is excellent.
• Everyone knows everyone.
• Since when has the Frith beach been clean? The new improvements (a few million of EC money) at the Ffrith actually have suceeded in making it nicer. (The improvements in neighbouring Rhyl haven't had quite the same effects!)
• Please come to Prestayn our lovely seaside resort. With Pontins and the nice clean beach at the Ffrith.

The Worst Things

• Officail bodies who pay lip service to the law but are afraid to act upon it. Thursday 18/10/01. One of the most important Roman Sites destroyed. Habitat of the Great Crested Newt destroyed. Badger Setts wilfully destroyed.At least 18 Badgers now without homes.Incomplete surveys carried out, by law not to have been done until the end of Nov. 01. People living on the edge of the site are not even allowed to dig deeper than one spade depth,or even use a metal detector in their gardens, but it would seem there is one law for them and another for construction companies who can use massive earth moving equipment!.Erm somthing seems to be not quite right here, I wonder what it is, any ideas?.
• Prestatyn people really really hate tourists, which is a shame because it is about the only industry there. The only thing they hate more than tourists is Scousers, which is a shame, because most of the tourists fall into this category. What is worse is the persistance in calling people from the Wirral "Scousers". How can you be so stupid as to judge everyone by their accent? It could be worse, you could be from Flint.Sorry, Fflint. And why don't you write all this stuff in Welsh?
• The High Street (whilst remembering what it was a generation ago). The local council (and, presumably, the local councillors) who win the top prize for ineptitude every year (nowhere else comes close, except perhaps Doncaster where they've nailed those shady b*ggers to a tree). The scandalous waste of capital funding on pointless and ugly tourist and leisure amenities that nobody wants to see. The lack of decent housing and local opportunities for young people and the unemployed. Disabled car badge abuse on the High Street (I never knew SOoooo many disabled people could live in one place). All this and the other usual stuff resulting from greed, stupidity and ignorance (don't take it personally however, this kind of crap goes on almost everywhere). The rain.
• Saddo's hanging around on hte 'Top Park' with their joints and bottles of lamberella
• The high street townies, top park crew. Bunch of fools.
• Boredom, however making your own fun was always good. Smug idiots who can't see anything interesting in the place.
• the place the people the tourists the drugs the tourists the pubs the dog shit the tourists oh yeah...and the tourists
• Cross Foxws pub trying to get a drink on a Friday night. Bar prices at Macauley's
• Everything except the hills.
• The fact that that twat in the pub at the bottom of the High Street will not, despite numerous requests, sell me the 2CV which lies crushed under beer barrels in his yard, visible to all using the North Wales Coast trains.
• Too many English people.
• We don't be likin' strangers round these parts (even if we are a tourist resort).

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