The Winter Gardens is home to the Blackpool opera house and is split into a variety of rooms for a variety of purposes. The Empress Ballroom can hold from 1000 people to 3000 under its vaulted ceilings and crystal chandeliers depending on how the room is used, and it has hosted everything from 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.

Blackpool Winter Gardens plays host to a number of conventions, conferences and banquets annually within the Olympia, Renaissance, Baronial and Spanish Halls. Each hall seats a couple hundred people max, and if the event is a large one, thousands of people can fit into a hall if standing room only is required.

The Horseshoe is a large exhibition area with an access to the Olympia. The Pavilion Theater is located in the center of the Horseshoe. It is a dedicated theater with a seating capacity of 600 people and it offers a friendly place for watching Blackpool shows. It is an interesting venue to host business meetings inside its flamboyant stylishness.

The Gardens also homes the UK's largest dedicated theater, the Opera House and has a capacity of almost 3000 people including box and balcony seats. The stage has hosted world famous celebrities like Bob Hope, Judy Garland, and Frank Sinatra, and several West End productions played again as Blackpool shows.

Throughout the year, the site is in use and the festival of lights is the time which is most popular with the tourists, you can yourself think about the variety of choices in entertainment that are possible to have within this single place.