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 is linked to the Arena, another room of many uses. It can provide additional space for up to 600 or a much more intimate feel for theatrical presentations or up to medium-sized meetings. The room is even capable of complete blackout should that be required.

Each year in the Olympia, Blackpool Winter Gardens also hold symposiums, many conventions, and banquets, the Baronial Hall, the Renaissance, and the Spanish Hall, each having several hundred people according to the event, and also till thousands in some rooms if standing room is what that is required.

The Horseshoe is a large exhibition space close to Olympia that houses the Pavilion Theater. The Pavilion theater contains seats for as many as 600 people, allowing for a very intimate experience when attending Blackpool performances. The luxurious ambiance also makes the space an interesting venue for various business meetings.

The Opera House Theater, located in The Gardens, is the United Kingdom's largest dedicated theater. With seating for almost 3,000, it also has box seats and a balcony. The theater has been the site of many West End productions and has hosted theater icons like Bob Hope, Judy Garland, and Frank Sintra, just to name a few.

Being that the site is in use year round, and the festival of lights is the most popular time for tourists to visit, you can just imagine the wide variety of entertainment choices it's possible to have within even just this one place.