Butlins - anybody been recently?
I've done a couple of day trips to the Butlins at Bognor, but not for a few years now. The pool is certainly amazing - the very best indoor pool I've ever seen, and probably only beaten by the Disney pool parks in the USA. It's even better than the Centerparcs pools! However, the rest of Butlins is definitely more down market than Centerparcs, but then it isn't really trying not to be. The indoors area is good for awful British weather, and my six year old was enchanted - they had a Powerrangers performance on the stage, and trampolines and things like that. Outdoors was great with crazy golf and fair ground rides and gentle go karting. One problem was that you couldn't actually get to the beach, even though the place was right by it - the carpark is at the sea's edge! Seems a bit odd.... The big no no was the food - it was awful! Even the Burger King was worse than normal Burger King, and the Harry Ramsden was awful too.
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