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Administration is where there is hope that the business will continue in some form. It is not as serious as liqidation which is where the business is no more.

The administrators KPMG have said that they are optimistic that Pontins will be able to continue with some support from new management in the years to come.

I think that all booked holidays will continue as planned and the five sites continue as normal.

The administrators have set up a helpline number for customers, which will be open from Monday 15 November. It is 0844 576 8481.
El Loro
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I've never been to one of those places and I wouldn't be seen dead in one, either.
As a child it was the holiday my parents chose (and could just sbout afford)...........it was one week of no cooking and 'fun' on tap. I have so many happy and fond memories ................i know it's not everyones cup of tea but we looked forward to our week away every year.

Times and attitudes change - TBH - I'm not surprised it's closing down but it makes me sad for purely nostalgiac reasons.
Soozy Woo
I've never stayed in Butlins or Pontins but my neighbour stayed at Breen Sands this summer and she said it's not an experience she would want to repeat.

The holiday itself was expensive (it would have been cheaper to go abroad).  The chalet/caravan thingies were filthy.  The mattresses were stained and the pillows were disgusting.  The entertainment was rubbish and the staff were demoralised and nearly always rude.  If you asked to be accommodated in another chalet it was probably as bad as the one you just vacated.  Eventually the staff told her to put up or leave    She left! 


I just don't think places like these get that times have moved on and people who are forking out good money want a good standard in return and these places can't deliver and their staff have never heard of customer service    (I understand the staff if they are working in bad conditions being demoralised but that's not the customer's fault).
FM
I've never been to any of these places but as has been said, times have changed.

Decades ago these places were full to the brim as families could not afford to travel abroad.


I've never seen the appeal of holiday camps - to me they are too much like organised, enforced fun.



It's the demise of the seaside holiday resorts that sadden me. 


As a child we would always travel to Blackpool, Scarborough, Eastbourne and such like 
FM
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I've never seen the appeal of holiday camps - to me they are too much like organised, enforced fun
Exactly
Our two weeks every summer in Cornwall were probably cheaper than a week in a holiday camp - our tent was a big dirty white canvas beer tent with wooden tentpegs and blankets for dividing the "rooms".
We spent hardly any money while we were there, cooked our own grub on a Gaz stove and took our own orange squash and sarnies to the beach. But I always had the time of my life and I'd pick an afternoon of pootling round the rockpools in Newquay Harbour over a regimented communal games session with a bunch of fellow prisoners holidaymakers at a camp, any day.
Demantoid

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