Pontins Blackpool, Lancashire, England

Much Better Than Expected

Overall Rating:

8/10

Board Basis:

Half Board

Date of Holiday:

May 2009

Tour Operator:

Booked Independently

Submitted By:

Rosie P

Comments:

My husband, two sons and I recently stayed at Pontins for a football tournament over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend. After having read recent reviews, we were very apprehensive as to what to expect and had decided that we would have to stay at a hotel... read more

Good for:

Beach 

dont go barefoot

Overall Rating:

1/10

Board Basis:

Full Board

Date of Holiday:

Jun 2009

Tour Operator:

Booked Independently

Submitted By:

suzywong63

Photos:

Comments:

my work colleague and i have just come back from a 4 night over 50s break where we took a lady with learning difficulties,when we first arrived at it looked like any other holiday (or concentration)camp.However once you step into the chalet your world... read more

Advice:

blackpool great,pontins awful.

Activities:

walk of faith in blackpool tower and pleasure beach.

Families BEWARE!!

Overall Rating:

1/10

Board Basis:

Half Board

Date of Holiday:

May 2009

Tour Operator:

Booked Independently

Submitted By:

Family of five

Photos:

Comments:

How awful. Massively miss-represented by Pontins on their website and their brochure. 'Trading Standards' need to visit! If you've booked it, CANCEL! The place is completely run down, dirty and washed out. The chalet, (if you can call it that) was... read more

Advice:

Lancashire great. Pontins Blackpool a disgrace!

Activities:

dump

Overall Rating:

1/10

Board Basis:

Half Board

Date of Holiday:

Apr 2009

Tour Operator:

Booked Independently

Submitted By:

melias

Comments:

take a sleeping bag and sleep on the sand dunes amoungst the dirt and broken bottles you will find it cleaner!poky sh*tholes they call them chalet are a disgrace and not fit for human habitation, only stayed because son was in football tournement left... read more

Advice:

lancashire nice just stay away from pontins!

Activities:

PontinsMad!

Overall Rating:

10/10

Board Basis:

Half Board

Date of Holiday:

Apr 2009

Tour Operator:

Booked Independently

Submitted By:

Becky.S

Photos:

Comments:

Ok i may only be 16 but im fed up of reading bad reports about pontins blackpool so thought i should share my experinces!! Me and my family just cant get enough of pontins! Our family consists of my mother who is a single parent, myself and my three... read more

Good for:

Beach 

Easter Madness

Overall Rating:

1/10

Board Basis:

Half Board

Date of Holiday:

Apr 2009

Tour Operator:

M + L

Submitted By:

Dougy

Comments:

What a big mistake, staying in an outside toilet with windows, thinking that it was a holiday chalet, well the holiday blurb called it a chalet. We thought that we would be charged for over occupancy as we shared the room with several hundred ants,... read more

Review

Overall Rating:

7/10

Board Basis:

Half Board

Date of Holiday:

Mar 2009

Tour Operator:

Booked Independently

Submitted By:

dkelly

Comments:

We went to Pontins recently having never tried these sorts of holidays before and all i can say is that its not all bad. The worse things are the chalets which are very very basic but if you dont expect much then you wont be dissapointed and to be... read more

no way

Overall Rating:

1/10

Board Basis:

Half Board

Date of Holiday:

Apr 2008

Tour Operator:

Booked Independently

Submitted By:

miss urban

Comments:

How can you possably want to goto pontis, the place is visabley run down, and in bad state of repair.
No wonder they anounsed a big refurblishment to come in 2009 and the closeure of one of their parks. It looks tolaty tatty, no flower beds just... read more

Advice:

Filthy Dirty Scruffy

Activities:

The only good thing was the tower

Pontin's Blackpool = fab

Overall Rating:

10/10

Board Basis:

Half Board

Date of Holiday:

Nov 2007

Tour Operator:

Booked Independently

Submitted By:

smilner

Comments:

I went to Pontin's Blackpool for the Starquest Talent finals in November 2007, after spendind countless holidays at Pontin's Pakefield in Suffolk.
It was brilliant! I have to say I have never spent a whole main season week at this centre, but for... read more

Good for:

Beach 

Nightmare on shite site

Overall Rating:

1/10

Board Basis:

Half Board

Date of Holiday:

Oct 2008

Tour Operator:

Booked Independently

Submitted By:

juliewalls

Comments:

This was a half term break for me and my twin boys aged 12. Having just started secondary school and having had quite a turbulent time. I was so dissapointed by the whole get up of pontins. The rooms were dirty, we had to leave our socks on as the... read more

our experience of blackpool pontins

Overall Rating:

7/10

Board Basis:

Half Board

Date of Holiday:

Oct 2008

Tour Operator:

Booked Independently

Submitted By:

Jetstream

Comments:

Went on Friday 31st oct
Second time we've been with our 2 young kids and both of them love it. so that is all that matters. On the whole it was ok/good, service from reception was excellent after a couple of hitches with our booking, we werent... read more

Mr G Smedley

Overall Rating:

1/10

Board Basis:

Half Board

Date of Holiday:

Oct 2008

Tour Operator:

Booked Independently

Submitted By:

Mr G Smedley

Comments:

We arrived for halloween expecting a great value holiday. What we got was totally different experience to say the least, before we got to the chalet a jet whizzed past 50 ft above our heads. Our friends chalet / sh** hole had medication lying on the... read more

Stop Winging!

Overall Rating:

7/10

Board Basis:

Half Board

Date of Holiday:

Jul 2007

Tour Operator:

Pontins

Submitted By:

luna123

Comments:

I went to pontins july last year and I am going again this weekend. I thought i would add my reveiw because there was soo many bad ones....
Basically yes, it looks like a prison camp and the facilities are outdated, but what on earth do you... read more

my break

Overall Rating:

10/10

Board Basis:

Half Board

Date of Holiday:

Oct 2008

Tour Operator:

Booked Independently

Submitted By:

marie666

Comments:

I read some awful reviews of this place on this site, all i can say is these people that have written them must have stayed at a completly different site. I found the room immaculate, the staff extremly friendly, the food wonderful with lots of choice... read more

my holiday

Overall Rating:

9/10

Board Basis:

Half Board

Date of Holiday:

Oct 2008

Tour Operator:

Booked Independently

Submitted By:

stacy130

Comments:

just arrived back from a weekend at pontins was thinking twice about going after all the bad reviews i read but went along anyway and could not believe how wrong these people were i could not fault a thing the room was clean and tidy the food was good... read more