Hot waterbottles at 5 paces in the early hours, sounds like a plan, and they must be filled with hot water though, it is considered cheating if your hot waterbottle is filled with ice!
From what I've read from the various reviews, Pontins Southport
resembles a WW2 concentration camp. Blimey if you look at it on Google
Maps it evens looks like one. So I took a look at tripadvisor and the reviews were enough for me! Here's one of the better ones:
Never Again!!! Was meant to stay for 3nts, we lasted 1 night. Arrived at
9.00pm, they were no parking, we got to the room (No: 680 )where we was
greeted with teenagers hanging outside our door swearing &
spitting. people were sat outside drinking and kids running riot. And
don't get me started on the room....the chairs, fridge & T.V were
broken, no plug for the microwave, curtains, duvets and cushions were
soiled in dirt (looked like sick to me!). We requested some chairs with
legs and a working T.V. we was informed by reception that they could not
help as it is Pontins policy that TV's can not be replaced nor comes
with a remote control. we was promised chairs before 10.00pm....they
arrived at 1.00am in the morning!!! we were still awake as the drunken
parents and fowled mouthed children were still making noise till 3.00am
in the morning! I wish I had turned straight around and gone home, if I
hadn't travelled for 2.5 hours with young children there's no doubt
about it...I would have done! If your house is run down and dirty, your
children swear, you like to fight & drink yourself senseless then
this is the holiday for you! The only way I can describe this run down
dirt hole....it was like a program of Shameless!!! I have never been so
happy to leave a place and to have a bath. My home felt like a palace.
It is not even worth a rating. DO NOT GO.....SHUT THIS PLACE DOWN!!!
Stayed October 2013, travelled with family
And that's one of the kinder reviews! The obvious lack of hygenic accommodation at this place would be a definite No-No for me. Cheap & cheerful is fine, filthy and stinking is not.
OJ, I would agree to a point; if you were paying full price, as the people you quoted from tripadvisor were, then yes the state of the place leaves a little to be desired. I have attended the last 3 events, two of the February Rally in a Chalet and one Halloween bash; the chalets are not "spotless" but can be classed as acceptable for the price that is charged. Like any other B&B or hotel, you get what you pay for!
As to the nature of the customers, this is, at the end of the day, a motorcycle rally without camping and as such one has to be prepared for the "antics" of several hundred bikers who are out to party!
Have booked up for this one, safe in the knowledge that we shall have great weekend entertainment that will be further enhanced by quality time spent with good mates
Well I look at it from a, possibly unique, hygiene point of view. Because I take a number of different medications to maintain some level of sustainable and acceptable health, for me the possibility of picking up an infection from unsanitary conditions is not an acceptable risk. I took the trouble to read several reviews and quite frankly , as I said, cheap and cheerful is fine but there is NO excuse for unsanitary conditions at any price. I don't care if they personally invited me and paid me £500 to stay for the week-end I would politely decline. However the MCN Butlins gig looks pretty damn cool. But, hey, I'm sure you guys will have a blast and thoroughly enjoy yourselves.
Well it is official, I have booked the room and will be there on the thursday, this should be a good laugh and am looking forward to posting pics of any and all BMers in fancy dress on the events page.
As far as I "know"
I don't have any "street cred"
But at the risk of losing any I might have accrued
I shall be suitably attired in my usual debonair garb
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