Any Butlins experts around? Adding an extra adult

BoBoDobie · 21 March 2017 at 1:28PM

I've paid £209 to take myself and my 6 year old to Skegness at Easter. Thats silver accommodation and includes the premium dining breakfast and tea. I've just rung up to enquire about adding an extra adult and they are quoting me £225 to add on one person! They say its because I need to upgrade the room (currently a double) to one that will sleep 3. In all the years I've been going I've never had a silver standard room that is any different - they have all been a double room, a twin room and a tiny bathroom in the middle. No way can we afford the extra £225 to take my partner, it more than doubles the cost of the holiday. Am I missing something here, is there anyway round it? Obvs I expected to pay more but not more than double what I paid in the first place.:(

theonlywayisup · 21 March 2017 at 1:51PM

What have you booked? Is it one of these https://www.butlins.com/where-to-stay-dine-and-play/where-to-stay/skegness/silver-room.aspx

If it is a one room then it is perfectly understandable they will need to change your accommodation.

BoBoDobie · 21 March 2017 at 1:58PM

Yes that's the ones. They're always a twin room, bathroom in the middle and then a double so we'd all fit. Even to upgrade I'm just amazed it's more than i paid for 2 of us. I thought Butlins was supposed to be an affordable place!

theonlywayisup · 21 March 2017 at 2:03PM

When you say "they are always....." that really doesn't come into it. If you've booked one room and that is suitable for 2 people only, you can't squeeze 3 into it. Have you priced up a brand new holiday based on 3 people to see what the difference is? What dates are you going?

BoBoDobie · 21 March 2017 at 2:27PM

theonlywayisup wrote: »

When you say "they are always....." that really doesn't come into it. If you've booked one room and that is suitable for 2 people only, you can't squeeze 3 into it. Have you priced up a brand new holiday based on 3 people to see what the difference is? What dates are you going?

I think the point I'm finding hard to take is i didn't think they did a purely double only room bar the bog standard prefab accommodation that I thought they phased out. All the years I've been booking silver for 2 of us, I've had 2 bedrooms and enough room to sleep 4.

Going on 7th April. Good point, no id not thought of booking now for 3 to seee the price difference. It's probably going to be sky high, I booked last year and I think the earlier you book the cheaper it tends to be.

theonlywayisup · 21 March 2017 at 2:31PM

BoBoDobie wrote: »

I think the point I'm finding hard to take is i didn't think they did a purely double only room bar the bog standard prefab accommodation that I thought they phased out. All the years I've been booking silver for 2 of us, I've had 2 bedrooms and enough room to sleep 4.

Going on 7th April. Good point, no id not thought of booking now for 3 to seee the price difference. It's probably going to be sky high, I booked last year and I think the earlier you book the cheaper it tends to be.

There could be many reasons you've never had a one room accommodation, not least because; they were all full (more 2 party bookings than double rooms); they wanted to entice you into booking a bigger accommodation in the future (showing what is on offer if it's available is a cheap way to advertise this); their other accommodations were empty and they wanted to balance the areas booked out.....and so it goes on.

Why don't you price up a new break and see what the difference is. If it's not too much you could try sweet-talking the booking agent into changing your booking to that same price. Or you might prefer to cancel and rebook (checking there are no cancellation fees).

BoBoDobie · 22 March 2017 at 10:16AM

theonlywayisup wrote: »

There could be many reasons you've never had a one room accommodation, not least because; they were all full (more 2 party bookings than double rooms); they wanted to entice you into booking a bigger accommodation in the future (showing what is on offer if it's available is a cheap way to advertise this); their other accommodations were empty and they wanted to balance the areas booked out.....and so it goes on.

Why don't you price up a new break and see what the difference is. If it's not too much you could try sweet-talking the booking agent into changing your booking to that same price. Or you might prefer to cancel and rebook (checking there are no cancellation fees).

Yes fair points. A new booking works out more unfortunately. Will just have to forget the idea I think.

springdreams · 23 March 2017 at 7:54PM

The times that I have been in a silver room for two it has always been one room with twin beds and a small bathroom off to the side or a double bed with a bathroom off to the side.

So the silver rooms are not always two rooms.

Any Butlins experts around? Adding an extra adult

Comments

Categories

Get our FREE Weekly email full of deals & guides - and it’s spam-free