Any ideas?

Chris wrote "There's probably no money for anything grandiose (to improve and regenerate the area) but here's my (very modest) wish-list:-

1. Toilets that won't give you dysentry (if you can still find one open)

2. A theatre with a sign outside that says what's on that night. (Is Venue Cymru the only theatre in the world where this deosn't happen?)

3.taxis you can flag down in the street

4. A bus service along the prom.

5. Cafe's that don't shut up shop as soon as it goes a bit quiet or custom is tailing off

None of it's rocket-science, and an invitation to the resisdents of the town would produce a hundred or morelow-cost low-energy incremental improvements like this that would between them add up to a better resort."

Cannily, Chris has identified five of the most pressing needs for any tourist destination, and - it seems - five where we fall down.

Toilets: they're busily debating closing most of them, but what we probably need is a change in the law to make all businesses above a certain size provide public toilets.

Theatre signage: hmmm...wonder why they don't want folk to know what's on?

Taxis: why don't we have the traditional taxi service here?

Buses: the problem would almost certainly have to be congestion, since most of the hotels along the prom have coaches double-parking as it is in the season.  However, a tram actually running on the prom itself and not on the road could be a winner.  Now, where have we heard that before?

Cafes: the Rest and Be Thankful cafe - Marine Drive, Great Orme, just past the lighthouse - remains open for every day of the year except Christmas Day.  But it is one of the few that does.  However, struggle up there on foot, drive or simply stroll up on Boxing day to walk off the Christmas goodies, and you'll always be rewarded with a very warm welcome.

What is an excellent idea, however,  is to ask all the locals for their ideas about what could be done to improve the local area in tourist terms.  So send them in, and we'll keep a running tally.  Thanks for Chris for the idea and starting the (snow)ball rolling.