Contactless payment reaches the donkeys of Blackpool beach

The touch-to-pay technology can now be used to pay for donkey rides in the seaside town.

Contactless payment is a very handy feature – it’s coming to the London Underground and buses so you never have to queue to top-up or buy a ticket again, and now the technology’s reached a rather unlikely destination – the sands of Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach.

Visitors will be able to pay just by tapping their card on the built-in reader (Mick Buck)

Barclaycard have created contactless payment saddles so visitors to the town’s famous beach don’t have to worry about cash should they, or someone with them, fancy a ride on the equally famous donkeys.

Using cash for donkey rides won’t be an issue this Bank Holiday (Mick Buck)

Just in time for the Bank Holiday weekend too.