When Strictly Come Dancing makes its annual trip to Blackpool, it books the town's Big Blue Hotel. The building sits so close to the seafront activities that dancers may open their curtains in the morning to see a rollercoaster speeding by.
The popular BBC dance show returned to Blackpool for the first time in three years this year, and it's believed that most of the cast, crew and judges stayed in the hotel, which has rooms starting at £80 a night. It's right next to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, with some rooms just metres from the tracks of rollercoasters, such as the Big One and the Big Dipper.
The hotel - which gets its name from the bright blue colour that its exterior walls are painted - is open all year round and is in a prime location, just a short walk from the seafront. It is owned by the same company that runs the nearby £12 million Boulevard Hotel, that hosted former Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier this year.
