Butlins as a single adult?

lea2012

Totally agree, abuse isn't just single people and I'm not saying that it is. I'm just pointing out that policies are often biased towards single people and a single person in Butlins would probably raise a red flag at check in.
Butlins may well have a safeguarding policy that covers couples without children too, but sadly we live in a world where we still perceive abuse to be carried out by males acting alone in the main even though this is definitely not the case.

I work in events, very family orientated ones, and if a single person of any gender without children attends we keep tabs on them throughout their visit. We've never had a couple come without children but if we did I'd expect my team to follow the same procedure.
I appreciate there is something for everyone at Butlins so people without children may still want to holiday there but during school holidays when there are a lot of children around I can see why Butlins would be wary.

Lip_Stick

ThumbRemote wrote: »

Butlins don't have single occupancy accommodation, so you'd be paying for two people anyway and it may be more expensive than you expect. However, if you're booking room only and not including a meal plan, this would mean that you could just put two names on the booking and be paying the same price.

I've booked for 4 nights for myself and my son in a twin room for the last week of August and it's quite a reasonable price, just over £200. Will be less of course, outside school holidays.

Mistral001

louise_weaver wrote: »

(I know its an odd choice for a single adult, and I fully understand why they might want to ban them, but for price and health-related reasons its probably the only holiday I can have.)

I am also single on a tight budget, so I can sympathise with your problem. Most holiday packages for singles who want to holiday at home rather than go abroad are expensive. The packages tend to be either, activities holidays aimed at the young professional or walking or sightseeing trips aimed at affluent pensioners.

I am single and when my friends all got married and there was nobody to go on holiday with, I went on some of the activity based holidays as I could afford them at that time. They were OK, because we were all sharing in a common interest and you did not feel alone.

To be honest now I just do not go on an annual holiday at all. I have gotten used to it and find that it is not a problem. I use the money I would spend on the annual holiday, on other leisure activities and short trips to visit friends or for entertaining friends when they visit me

ThumbRemote

lea2012 wrote: »

Even if you book as a 2 person break and say one person hasnt arrived I think they would flag your reservation somewhere along the line and you may be asked to leave which would be rather embarrassing.

Absolutely not the case. In the vast majority of cases only the lead booking name would check-in anyway; there would be absolutely no reason to even mention whether everyone on the booking is or isn't there.