butlins minehead gold accomodation

FloFlo

And everyone don't forget to join the Butlins premier club if you've taken enough hols in the qualifying time. You don't get benefits of premier club on a sun hol but they do count towards your qualifying stays.

For Bronze membership this is three or four holidays, for Silver this is five or six holidays and for Gold this is seven or more holidays over a 3 year period. I am a bronze member thanks to sun hols and a couple of late bookings.

blue_monkey_2

I am also a Bronze premier club member, we can check in at 2.30. Whoo hoo!!

To become a member the same lead name must have booked the holidays.

Glad you got into Plantation Flo.

kippers

Just to let you know...if you fancy a holiday for 4 nights at easter (starting March 29th 2010) they are only £190 for Gold self catering at Minehead (£210 @ Skegness). They are even cheaper for standard and silver.

I was looking for Feb half term but they are really expensive. I don't know why the week before easter is cheaper. My children are not at school then either.

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat

OH stayed at Butlins Minehead when he was a kid - he seems to think there used to be some kind of monorail train you could get around the camp on? If there was, it doesn't look like there is now.

Someone mentioned the steam railway - you can use the Tesco Clubcard vouchers here, we've done this a couple of times (we don't stay in Minehead though, we've driven over from North Devon and have combined a trip on the train with a visit to Dunster Castle or Tarr Steps)

spaceman5

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat wrote: »

OH stayed at Butlins Minehead when he was a kid - he seems to think there used to be some kind of monorail train you could get around the camp on? If there was, it doesn't look like there is now.

Someone mentioned the steam railway - you can use the Tesco Clubcard vouchers here, we've done this a couple of times (we don't stay in Minehead though, we've driven over from North Devon and have combined a trip on the train with a visit to Dunster Castle or Tarr Steps)

i used to work there from about 15 years ago, there did used to be a monorail train there, but it did not go around the whole resort, just around the front complex where all the entertainment is, come to think of it you could only get on and off in the same place AFAIK, but it went when they built the big white tent, otherwise known as the skyline, Dave

blue_monkey_2

I remember those, also, does anyone else remember the siwmming pools that had underwater viewing areas? I used to go to clacton as a kid and we used to love going to the bottom and then swimming up the window sticking our fingers up at the people in the bar. LOL. Skeggy had one wqhen I last went 20 years ago too. Can you imagine if they made one of these now??

They do have a tractor train now, Skeggy has one that goes around the park when the weather is warmer.

FloFlo

kippers wrote: »

Just to let you know...if you fancy a holiday for 4 nights at easter (starting March 29th 2010) they are only £190 for Gold self catering at Minehead (£210 @ Skegness). They are even cheaper for standard and silver.

I was looking for Feb half term but they are really expensive. I don't know why the week before easter is cheaper. My children are not at school then either.

We're off school then too, I'm tempted lol. Good find.

kippers

Yes we were tempted too but money is soo tight i think we will be giving it a miss.

Yes i remember the swimming pools where you could see peoples legs etc when you sat in the cafe.

The highlight of our week as a child was the 'Donkey Derby', we loved it! I also used to be pushed into the junior talent competion etc which i hated (i never won as i was dreadful at singing)!

Does anyone remember the tanoy that would play music and announce the days events?

FloFlo

kippers wrote: »

Yes we were tempted too but money is soo tight i think we will be giving it a miss.

Yes i remember the swimming pools where you could see peoples legs etc when you sat in the cafe.

The highlight of our week as a child was the 'Donkey Derby', we loved it! I also used to be pushed into the junior talent competion etc which i hated (i never won as i was dreadful at singing)!

Does anyone remember the tanoy that would play music and announce the days events?

I am scarred from my mother making me enter the tarzan and Jane competition (as Jane in a bikini:o) and the junior beauty comp. I really didn't want to and she made me, years and years later I went with her and my young niece and I asked why she didn't have to go into the comps and my mum said she doesn't want to!:mad::rotfl:

I used to like the horse racing on film lol, I have been a beaver and in the 913 club, and I loved watching the comps - as long as I wasn't made to enter.

Did anyone else have the pictures from Butlins where there inside a small viewer and you have put your eye to it and hold it to the light to see the picture inside?

blue_monkey_2

FloFlo wrote: »

I am scarred from my mother making me enter the tarzan and Jane competition (as Jane in a bikini:o) and the junior beauty comp. I really didn't want to and she made me, years and years later I went with her and my young niece and I asked why she didn't have to go into the comps and my mum said she doesn't want to!:mad::rotfl:

I used to like the horse racing on film lol, I have been a beaver and in the 913 club, and I loved watching the comps - as long as I wasn't made to enter.

Did anyone else have the pictures from Butlins where there inside a small viewer and you have put your eye to it and hold it to the light to see the picture inside?

LOL, for some reason these 2 comments seem to link together in my head!! :rotfl:

I was thinking about this last night, last year we went to Skeggy and there were no clubs for kids age 5-9, they have to attend their club things with parents, the year before there was things to do without parents. Now they have stuff like circus skills and pirate workshops but the parents have to attend as well. The redcoats used to take the kids off.

About 20 years ago I was staying at Skeggy and the apartment was right next to the place where they used to do trampolineing (anyone else remember it). Anyway, one afternoon there was this huge crash and this kid had fallen through the plate glass windown and all you could see was a redcoat running off with the child in their arms. I never saw any blood but my imagination probably makes it worse. Horrible. I shall remember that forever.