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Advantages: close to beach and amusements
Disadvantages: everything else, cheap, shabby, poor

We stayed at Pontins Brean Sands near Burnham on Sea in Somerset in October 2007. We booked this through The Sun Newspaper holiday scheme, so it cost us £38 for 3 nights and a further £12 for entertainment passes. We decided to take our own bed linen to save another £6. Electricity was thrown in free as part of the deal. This would have cost us around £70 by booking direct with Pontins through the internet, for a weekend in October. We have stayed ... Read review

Advantages: Plenty to do
Disadvantages: Price of the drinks!

...there's only one road and Pontins is on it. So we get there at about 1pm but we cant book in until 4pm, however we get to use the facilities, so we spent a few hours having a drink and splashing about in the pool. Booking in was not quite the horror others have described. They had 6 Bluecoats working, you handed over your booking letter and received an envelope with your key, directions and some vouchers. Where you got to go was luck of the draw. ... Read review

Advantages: At least we had a good laugh about it!
Disadvantages: See the opinion - there's too many to list here!

...an opinion by Brianlfc about Pontins and it struck quite a chord with me. In fact, as soon as I read his title, I though I bet he went to Wall Park at Brixham and sure enough I was right. So, just in case you didn’t have enough excitement reading about Brian’s ‘wonderful’ holiday at Wall Park I thought I’d tell you about mine too! I went with my parents about eight years ago. Mom had seen an advert in the newspaper ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, cheerful, loads of netball
Disadvantages: Tired!!! We have never won it.

Pontins, alongside Butlins, the mainstay of British family holidays, except for a few weekends a year when thousands of netballers flock to Brean Sands for a weekend of serious netball………and some quite serious drinking too. Our weekend cost around £200 (didn’t pay for it myself) which included 2, 4 berth chalets, and entrance into the tournament. After packing up the car (how much stuff can four girls take for a weekend away) and driving for ... Read review

Advantages: Fun, fun, fun
Disadvantages: British weather and did I mention the crocodile

...enter the place known as….The pontins Zone.!!! Nooony-nooner-noony-nooner (vague attempt at music in written form!) Many, many years ago when I was just a small boy, I was kidnapped every year and taken to various prison camps around the country run by Pontins. Don't get me wrong, I did actually enjoy these holiday camps, but let's face it, all they really needed to be complete was a few, well placed gun turrets! Cheap and cheerful, they ... Read review

Advantages: Good family holiday
Disadvantages: not enough on site

We are just back from Pontins Southport and to be honest I really did not want to go as I had seen a holidays from hell type of programme the week before we were due to go and it looked really bad like a concentration camp the rooms look horrible and it completely put me off. But I went got all pack and left early on the Monday morning as we were staying Monday - Friday, as we had booked it through The Sun newspaper for £9.50 collect a tokens holiday ... Read review

Advantages: Free day/night entertainment, Friendly Staff, Cheap Holiday!
Disadvantages: No babysitters :-(

...this country! We looked at the pontins website http://www.pontins.com/ which is very good and very inviting!! It was showing a deal that if you booked before the end of february you get your holiday half price!! So thats what we went for! I called the hotline and spoke to a lovely lady who was very friendly and gave me all the information we needed! Apartments are split into 3 catagories: Budget 'Budget apartments offer fantastic value ... Read review

Advantages: Half Board Family Entertainment Centre
Disadvantages: Not the holiday advertised, poorly maintained

...myself and my wife Sarah. Pontins seemed the obvious choice and well it was something I had always wanted to do since I was kid. We booked over the Internet back in January, the prices were pretty high but we are firm believers in you get what you pay for and as we booked online we qualified for Pontins Pounds. (Face value vouchers that can be spent in the bars, food outlets or the small gift shops). The holiday we thought we booked was 7 nights, ... Read review

Advantages: nice food, the price
Disadvantages: evening entertainment, very close to train track and Blackpool airport

...to Blackpool and choose a Pontins holiday camp to stay in. With two small children it seemed ideal as they cater for people with young families. We booked over the phone and the next day all the paper work arrived. The only thing that was missing was a map. I was a bit concerned because after driving all that way the last thing we needed was to be driving around Blackpool looking for the site! We set off on Friday and five long hours later ... Read review

Advantages: Activities laid on for the kids nearly all day.
Disadvantages: Way too commercial now, friendly family atmospheres all gone

The first Pontins holiday camp was opened in 1946, and there have been a total of 31 Pontins locations, ranging from the very grand Barton Hall to the small and friendly St Mary's Bay. At one point they even had adult only camps. However the cheap package holiday has hit Pontins hard, and there are now only 8 sites remaining. These are: * Blackpool * Bean Sands * Camber Sands * Hemsby * Pakefield * Prestatyn Sands * Southport * ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap Family Holiday, Kids love the place
Disadvantages: Expensive Food, Bluecoats can get on your nerves

We went to Southport Pontins last September, It was one of those last minute shall we collect the £9.50 tokens from The Sun or not. We had been meaning to collect them for a while, but have never really got around to it. We finally have all the tokens, sent them off, but all the parks and dates we wanted had gone, so we decided to go with Southport Pontins after them sending a list of available parks left.. Southport Pontins in a town called ... Read review

Advantages: No threat of violence
Disadvantages: Bar closing too early at night (all holidays)

2001 I feel its time to give a positive review of Wall Park, by someone who has been holidaying down at the camp for many years. I feel that its unfair that the bluecoats and staff has been represented badly by people who only gone down there once, never to come back, and I feel that I should type out this review to redress the balance. I paid £330 for the holiday, which £22 was insurance and bed linen, why pay that amount, well where I book has ... Read review