I'm eying up the Blackpool site.

I'll keep you posted   

Butlins will probably buy them all.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ..........as a child we always had a week at Pontins - such fond memories.

I did Butlins as a kid and had a great time. Cheap hols abroad have probably spelt the death knell for them.

 Mee too. Single mum two kids and the Three Degrees.

I think is sad that yet another British institution has bitten the dust. Why doesn't the Government give them a leg up like they do the banks? Surely in the interest of tourism, it wouldn't be too much to ask and I have a feeling that the public would applaud it.

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.

State run holiday camps??


NOOOOOOOOOO

No way!! Poor pontins!

 Even as a child I was mortified to be taken to Butlins/Pontins etc. My parents thought I was such an odd child and no-one knows where I got my 'snobbery' from.

Maybe I was adopted 

I've never been to one of those places and I wouldn't be seen dead in one, either.
My family didn't have much money, but our summer holidays were always two weeks in a tent in Cornwall, which I loved.

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.

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).

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 

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.

The best thing about camping holidays was NOT listening to Mum and Dad through canvas walls. ***sniggers*** . Butlins and Pontins were for posh gits!