I Stay In A Butlins Hotel! - I Was Shocked!

I stayed at Butlin's Bognor Regis Resort for the first time in a Butlins Hotel!
are they any good? Let's find out!

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[lynjago]

I so feel for the room attendants who have to make up those bunk beds! When beds fit so snuggly against the walls like that, they are an absolute mare to make! I've had many a sweary moment doing those in my time! 🤣 But there's no excuse for poor hoovering.

[jamessutton]

We stayed there in January this year. I am a chef and we were told that they: "ran out of poached eggs, but they had fried eggs if we want them instead!" Think about that for a second...

[LightBeing]

7:42 Really? Every U.S. hotel/motel I've stayed in offers in-room tea & coffee, it seems a rather standard offering.

[ChrisGBusby]

As someone who lives on the coast (Eastbourne) I can relate to the dirty exterior. If you repaint it, it will go green in about a year with the sea air down here. Best to stick to plain brick :)

[peteking]

Great video Tim. Stayed at the Shoreline Hotel this time last year (Rockaway Beach) and having worked on it when it was being built in 2005 I must say it is showing its age a bit. In case anyone is wondering - which I am sure they're not! - I did the drawings for all those internal and external 'Juliet' balconies, also the balustrades on the internal staircases, also those big curved glass balustrades on the south facing balconies, also loads of other little bits and bobs of metalwork like a plant room access ladder if I remember correctly. So it's nice to point out to my friends what bits I did the drawings for, they really appreciate that as you can imagine! 🤣🤣🤣Going there tomorrow for the weekend for this year's Rockaway Beach, not to the Shoreline Hotel but to the Ocean Hotel which was the second hotel to be built on the site. Can't wait!

[amandabeech]

Lovely video Tim, the hotel looks lovely even with the partial sea view. The carpet and curtains look like it needed a deep clean. It was nice they had something for the kids too.

[deanjebuskane]

Hi Tim, love your videos!
I work at Butlins Bognor Regis and have done for 10yrs.
I just wanted to say (and I know it’s too late now), but if you wanted to go for a walk along the beach, all you need to do is just go through main gate (the one you drive in from) you will see a little gap in the hedge.
If you take a left as soon as you walking through the gap, just carry on walking straight and then carry on walking down the pavement for less than five minutes where the corner bends you can take a right and an immediate left by a blue house, you will see the sea front and the promenade. This is the same promenade (just the other end) that you walked in your day visit to Bognor/Butlins back in 2020.
Not sure if you would have known this but if you ventured out you will see a cafe call the Lobster Pot, this is one of the best places to outside but local to Butlins if you don’t want to go anywhere into town.

I hope that you stay on resort was still a pleasant.
I wish to have met you and would have loved to have served you one of my resort famous crepes.
But maybe another time when you come down with the family 🙂.

Take care of yourself.

Dean K.

[zachkucera]

I am always amazed when I stay at a hotel and the room has stains everywhere. How difficult is it for housekeeping to treat those stains or just do a general once over of the room to look for things like stains on the walls or on the carpet? That suggests to me that either the staff is under a lot of pressure or they just don't care. Neither is acceptable to me as a paying patron.

[ellymayx]

I used to work at Bognor Butlins and as a rule of thumb. The shoreline is a family hotel for families with younger children. The wave is for families with older children and the Ocean is more for adults. It's a great place to work and a nice place for a holiday. Food can be a bit hit or miss though. :)

[CrayWood-ff]

As a London kid in the 1970s, my parents took us to Butlins every year. Clacton-on-Sea, Bognor Regis, Minehead and even Barry Island. Obviously, never up North, lol. - In the early years they still had communal washrooms and we used to bring our own sheets, pillows and toilet paper with us. Live in Florida now, but would love to go to those 80s/90s weekends! Fantastic family memories....

[mrbutch]

Correction: the vast majority of hotels and motels in America have coffee makers with cups, sugar, artificial sweeteners, powdered cream, etc in the rooms. Furthermore, many if not most, have coffee urns and the amenities in the lobby of the establishments from morning through evening. Tea not so much, but that is a cultural difference.

[christophergoff]

For that price, looked quite a bargain if you want a cheap getaway as room looked good apart from a few cleaning issues, but didn't need a close up of the curtain thank-you😸

[gem]

Great, looking forward to seeing 'what the difference' is with this Butlins Tim!😊

[bennyhill]

Hey Tim, you make the start to the weekend great with your videos, plus these are my favourite kind, good work mate 👍

[ukstarlight]

The holiday park videos are my favorite!! Tim should do some of the adult-only weekenders (or aftermath!). I watched the Butlins Minehead video before I went - and did find those abandoned chalets haha. But nothing prepared me for the insanity that ensued during the Back to 00s weekender! 😂

[MrButtonpresser]

Your videos are beyond fascinating. I know it's a family style hotel, but it looks like a shopping centre by the sea.

[hazelmanship]

Lovely blog, room looked very nice and roomy thanks for sharing, x😊

[jayclayton]

Use to be a red coat there and we now have a yearly reunion every year love bognor and butlins

[michaelbyrne]

Hey Tim, from Ireland and love the videos. Would love to see you and the missus go to Bognor for one of the adult only weekends. Me and some friends travel from Dublin each year for the 80’s weekends they have there. Fantastic place for a mini festival.

[lindabaker]

Great video thanks, didn’t know that Butlins had hotels, looks great for families shame that it looked tired in places👍🏻❤️