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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]
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.
In 1964, Harris co-founded Bourne Leisure, a holiday and leisure company which owns Haven Holidays and Warner Leisure Hotels, after he audited a caravan park in his former role as an accountant. His co-founder was David Allen. [2] [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.
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.
Pontins is a British company operating holiday parks in the UK, founded in 1946 by Fred Pontin.It was acquired by Britannia Hotels in 2011. [1]Pontins specialises in offering half-board and self-catering holidays featuring entertainment at resorts, or "holiday parks", as they have branded them.
The Skegness camp contained all the standard Butlins entertainment ingredients: Butlins Redcoats, a funfair, a ballroom, a boating lake, tennis courts, a sports field (for the three legged and egg & spoon races and the donkey derby), table tennis and snooker tables, amusement arcades, a theatre, arcades of shops, a chairlift system and a ...