Help! Sun Holiday Postal Application

minxie5

Hi all

Im new to MSE after discovering it from a google search. Looks like a great community you have here!

As a first time prospective Sun-holidayer, I have been collecting the tokens and wondered if those of you who have experience of the postal application route could advise as to the order to put my preferred choices of parks. I know that may sound like a silly question (i.e. the logical answer I imagine would be 'put them in order of preference 1 to 5') but a friend of mine told me 'you never get your first choice and are more likely to get your second or third choices...so dont put your preferred choice of park as your first choice'. Is there any truth to this?

Date wise I am choosing 5 midweek break dates (from end of Sept through to early Nov) and I have also selected 5 Fri-Mon break dates (from end of sept to early Noc) in the 'are you able to holiday on other dates' option. Basically, we can holiday at anytime. Our preference is any Butlins, ideally Skegness, but will be happy with Bognor and will, if we have to, travel to Minehead. I have picked two other Haven parks but will be a tad disappointed if we got one of those and not Butlins.

I was hoping with a total of 10 dates, I may have a fair chance at getting my first or second choice. But without knowing how the parks & dates are allocated, I have no idea! After what my friend said, do I need to be 'tactical' when listing the park choices?

Any advice is much appreciated. Oh I can't wait to qualify for priority booking when (or more importantly, if) I get a holiday booked for the family! :undecided

Thanks

artichoke

hi

They are still sellling priority booking codes and forms on ebay for £15...

i bought one and used it last night - i thought it worth it to spend the extra £15 to take my kids away in October half term as we never can afford to go in the school holidays normally. Now we are going to Haven Marton Mere at Balckpool to see the Illuminations.

It might be worth adding up the cost of what you would pay via the sun offer and see if it is worth paying extra for a code from ebay....

if you can go anytime it might work out cheaper to book direct?

hope you get the holiday you want

art

teacherandmum

i've never heard anything as daft as the 'put your preffered one 2nd or 3rd'. Put your preferred one first!!
Last time i put one park (Trecco Bay south wales) and 4 dates and got my first date that i wanted!
This time i had a priority form but the park i want to go to isn't available online so i'm posting it tomorrow. I'm putting one date (mon - fri half term week) and my preferred park first followed by 2 Haven ones in the area.
As an aside to your question, l;ast time we wednt on a SUn hol, we upgraded, paid for passess, service charge etc.... it was only £20 cheaper than paying and booking with the company direct!!!

TryingHardToSave_2

We have gone on 2 sun holidays every year for the past 3 years. I always list my top 3 parks and dates 1st, then ones we would like to visit but arent really fussed and this time around i have ticked any parks box aswell.

Normally with upgrades, passes, charges etc our 5 day holiday comes in around £200 instead of the usual £400 plus.

We have been really lucky and apart from one time got our 1st choices of both each time. Hope you get you first choices x

rocco565

I've been on three sun holidays and have always got our first choice. I think it depends whether you get your application in fairly promptly and how popular each park is. Good luck, hope you get the one you want.

DeeLasVegas

Obviously put your 1st choice dates and parks 1st!!! Your friend misinformed you. The minds boggles lol :eek: