Non-chavvy holiday parks

code-a-holic

As previously mentioned. Bluestone in Pembrokeshire. We live 15 minutes away so lucky enough to use their facilities in term time when its nice and quiet for us. My husband has been there at meetings with management and they are planning on adding more cottages soon and the ski slope will be coming soon. Its defiantly a different class to butlins/havens etc! Pembrokeshire as a county is pretty chav free...would name the chaviest areas but dont want to get in trouble. Whenever we travel away im amazed at how chavy places can be.... i dont know why we bother going away - we have everything on our doorstep.

looby75

mumof2girls wrote: »

We are just back from a weeks stay at Haggerston Castle and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I am by no means a "chav" and nor do I swear at my 2 daughter's. I am sure there is a wide range of people from different backgrounds no matter where you go. Center Parcs included.

Is it the elite and non chavvy that go abroad then? :cool:

sorry I didn't mean to suggest that everyone who goes to haggerston castle was a chav I do know that a lot of "chavs" go there....we live reasonably close (durham) and it does seem to be the place the local chavs round here pick as their bank holiday destination, where as they turn their noses up at the Haven site at Berwick as it's too quiet and "borning"

BTW my inlaws are currently enjoying a short break at Haggerston castle and they are in their 70's so well past chaving it up

CFC

Most places are fine except in the school holidays...nowhere is nice once it's packed to the gills, and it tends to bring out the worst in families.

I've always found Haven et al perfectly nice out of school hols and using the accomodation as a base to explore. I hate all the 'entertainment' type stuff so don't get to mix with anyone else, which suits me fine.

aloiseb

QUOTE: To a great extent the high pricing of places like Centerparcs is done as a chav filter. The European ones are much cheaper because they don't have the same chav problem that we do.

Errmmm...have you been to Duinrell lately?

Met up with lots of Dutch badly brought up teenagers there - not enough staff on site to manage them properly and make them behave on the rides. impossible to tell people off in another language too!

Not that some of the Brits there seemed to be much better.....letting their kids go riding go-karts round the caravans at 11pm while they drank their way through the camp shop's special packs of Heineken in the caravans......

If we ever go there again (and it' is a great place in many ways) i will definitely book through the German website Selectcamp again - not such a posh caravan, but I would rather have a tatty van and quiet neighbours than beige carpets and late-night racket.

PS am I turning into a Grumpy Old Woman? Or even a Grumpy old German woman?

Rachie_B

code-a-holic wrote: »

As previously mentioned. Bluestone in Pembrokeshire. We live 15 minutes away so lucky enough to use their facilities in term time when its nice and quiet for us. My husband has been there at meetings with management and they are planning on adding more cottages soon and the ski slope will be coming soon. Its defiantly a different class to butlins/havens etc! Pembrokeshire as a county is pretty chav free...would name the chaviest areas but dont want to get in trouble. Whenever we travel away im amazed at how chavy places can be.... i dont know why we bother going away - we have everything on our doorstep.

You think ?! :eek::rotfl:

I am allowed to say that, as I lived in prob one of the chavviest areas of Pembs for 23 years ....

Not been to Bluetsone yet,but it looks and sounds fab.Few of my friends "back home" work there.

Have compared prices to CP's Longleat and it's around £100 cheaper for a mid week break in Aug

RE: the whole chav @ holiday parks thing
There will be chavs everywhere you go, no matter how cheap / expensive the location / accomodation ....

Not all chavs are on on benefits and have large families etc Money doesn't = class ,unfortunately

We like all sorts of holidays inc Butlins & Center Parcs ( Uk & europe) and everything in between and beyond lol ! Inc SUN holidays

We went to the Caribbean this year, and still chavs there too :rolleyes: lol

never_too_old

Rachie_B wrote: »

You think ?! :eek::rotfl:

I am allowed to say that, as I lived in prob one of the chavviest areas of Pembs for 23 years ....

Not been to Bluetsone yet,but it looks and sounds fab.Few of my friends "back home" work there.

Have compared prices to CP's Longleat and it's around £100 cheaper for a mid week break in Aug

RE: the whole chav @ holiday parks thing
There will be chavs everywhere you go, no matter how cheap / expensive the location / accomodation ....

Not all chavs are on on benefits and have large families etc Money doesn't = class ,unfortunately

We like all sorts of holidays inc Butlins & Center Parcs ( Uk & europe) and everything in between and beyond lol ! Inc SUN holidays

We went to the Caribbean this year, and still chavs there too :rolleyes: lol

i quite agree with you:T

frivolous_fay

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

and the name !!

'The centre's quirky name can be traced back to the reign of Henry VII when it appeared on maps and documents as "Sandyballas", a reference to the dome-shaped sand and gravel outcrops on the centre's western boundary. Today's holiday centre is named after those gravel outcrops, many of which remain, the best examples being Good Friday Hill and Giant's Grave. Not the most exciting of explanations perhaps but at least it clears that up. '


(Hampshire's my native turf)
And since when is the New Forest a 'holiday park'?! :rotfl:

h007

i regularly go on the sun holidays - just because it is a nice cheap way to have a weekend break.
and i am not a chav at all!
the only haven i stayed in that was abit 'chavvy' is church farm near hastings. the ones in weymouth and caister were fine.

flairrich

Stardust wrote: »

My parents go to Potters a lot.

Stardust, :T what a great place Potters is. I had a great time going there as a kid with my parents, and am now having a great time, still, with my children. I would recommend it to anyone.