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Butlins resorts offer various accommodation options to cater for different tastes and budgets. These range from "Standard" rooms and apartments to "Silver", "Gold", and "Deluxe" rooms and apartments for higher levels of luxury. There are also "BlueSkies" apartments available at Minehead, and 3 luxury hotels at Butlin's Bognor.
Butlins Resort Minehead is a holiday camp operated by Butlins, located in Minehead in Somerset, England.It opened in 1962 and remains in use today. It was known as Butlin's Minehead until 1987, and as Somerwest World from then until 1999, when it reopened as Butlins Minehead Resort.
A Spring Harvest parade at Butlins Skegness in the early 1990s. In 1987, the resort benefited from a £14 million (2011:£32.3 million) investment and improvement scheme, following which the resort was known as Funcoast World.
Butlin's Bognor Regis is a holiday camp in the seaside resort of Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England.It lies 55.5 miles (89 km) south southwest of London. Butlin's presence in the town began in 1932 with the opening of an amusement park; their operation soon expanded to take in a zoo as well.
Clacton-on-Sea is the largest town on the Tendring Peninsula in Essex and was founded in 1871. It is a seaside resort that attracted many tourists in the summer months between the 1950s and 1970s, but like many other British seaside resorts went into decline as a holiday destination since holidays abroad became more affordable.
In September 2022, it was announced that Butlins had been sold by The Blackstone Group as part of a £300 million deal, to one of the original founding families of Bourne Leisure and was sold to the Harris Family Trust. The deal however does not include Butlins property assets which were sold earlier in the year to the UK’s biggest private ...
Butlins Bognor Resort in 1962. On 2 July 1960 Butlin planned to open his holiday camp at Bognor, but because of flooding it was not ready. Butlin offered his patrons the chance to be re-sited at Clacton or to stay and help complete the camp's construction. A number opted to stay and help, and received a free bottle of champagne as a reward.
Butlin's Pwllheli was a holiday camp located near Pwllheli in Wales.The site is now used by Haven Holidays for a caravan park and has been renamed Hafan y Môr.When originally opened in 1947, it was named Butlins Pwllheli, but in 1990 was renamed Starcoast World.