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Owner of Butlins Peter Harris (born March 1934) [ 1 ] is a British businessman. He is best known for founding Bourne Leisure in 1964 and the owner of Butlins from September 2022.
In 2015, Bourne Leisure came fourth in the 100 Best Companies to Work For, a list generated in the UK by The Sunday Times newspaper. [10] In early 2021, Bourne Leisure was purchased by Blackstone. [11] Starwood provided a loan of £1.8 billion to facilitate the purchase, which was an estimated £3 billion. [12]
The company was established in 1964 and bought by the Bourne Leisure Group in 2000. In November 2004 Bourne Leisure merged its existing British Holidays chain into the Haven Holidays brand. Bourne Leisure was sold to the Blackstone Group in January 2021. [3]
How to Land an Airbus A330 (In his book, May describes how one would go about escaping from a Butlins Holiday Camp). Hodder Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-340-99458-0. There have also been a number of children's fiction books which include Butlins as a location or an integral part of the story. For example: Richards, Frank (1961). Billy Bunter at Butlins.
Caravans at the Haven site. The site was built in 1940 and opened as a Butlins camp in 1947. [1] In 1999, the camp became part of Haven Holidays, along with the Pwllheli camp, as part of an internal reorganisation within Bourne Leisure, which owned both Butlins and Haven.
Warner's was renamed Warner Leisure Hotels, departing from its holiday camp image. In early 2021, Bourne Leisure was acquired by The Blackstone Group. [1] In 2023, Warner added two hotels to its portfolio; Dalmahoy Hotel and Country Club, near Edinburgh, its first hotel in Scotland and Forest of Arden Country Club, near Birmingham.
Redcoats work in three areas, General duties, the Kid's Club and the costume character team. General duties are similar to those of a tour rep in a resort – Butlins even describe the role as "The Original Holiday Rep". [2] In the evening the Redcoats form part of the live entertainment team, starring in Gangshows and X Factor style game shows ...
Heads of Ayr holiday camp contained all of the tried and tested Butlins ingredients: the famous Butlins Redcoats, a funfair, early morning wake up, a dining hall (with the cheers going up when a waitress dropped a plate), indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a ballroom, a boating lake, tennis courts, a sports field (for the three legged and egg ...