She said: "During the Red Arrows display you couldn't stick a pin between people as they lined the promenade, from Kings Gap right through to Meols.
"At around noon there was a lot of traffic on the M53 and a bit of a hold-up, but a lot of people came by train.
"Many I spoke to said they had come to the Open at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club by train and realised how easy it was, so they came by train this time."
Although the weather turned out fine for the main events of the day, early poor weather meant the Ince Blundell Flying Club's microlites did not make it.
Mrs Jackson said: "We have also been very lucky with the weather. This morning there were a few long faces because it didn't look very promising, but then the wind came in and pushed all the rain away.
"And then the Red Arrows were breathtaking with their new display. It's been a fantastic event."
The aerial attractions also included an RAF Sea King helicopter performing a mock rescue with members of the RNLI
lifeboat crew from Hoylake and the Yakovlevs Display Team showing off their daredevil aerobatics.
Onshore visitors could enjoy the more sedate pleasures of charity stalls, a funfair, classic cars and tours of the lifeboat. Hoylake lifeboat station is one of the oldest on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland.
It was founded by the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board in 1803 and taken over by the RNLI in 1894.
Admission to the annual fundraising event is free but people were asked to make donations toward the RNLI lifeboat fund and last year around £27,000 was raised.
This year, early indications were they had raised a similar amount, with collection buckets all round the promenade for those enjoying the spectacular event to donate.
The success comes just after it was announced that work on the new lifeboat station at Hoylake is to begin in the spring of 2007 after the RNLI headquarters in Poole gave the go-ahead earlier this month.
Last year was the busiest year in Hoylake station's long history, and the lifeboat was called out 23 times and was credited with the rescue of 31 people.
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