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Brittania Hotels/Pontins

Posted by Brian on 20/5/2025, 11:21 pm

Brittania Hotels whose main source of income is fleecing successive British government's by housing migrants, illegal and otherwise at inflated tarrifs in pretty ropey hotels also own Pontins and have closed two of the larger camps a couple of years back, you have to wonder if they were closed to house more migrants as they'll hold a lot more than the Hotels. The announcement of the election plus change of government may have derailed the plan but it seemed to me that was their aim as like the hotels was to allow the to run them down and use them as migrants accommodation. This was reinforced by the rankings of bottom of Which magazine rankings of the holiday camp chains in the UK. Does anyone think this was a possibility?

Re: Brittania Hotels/Pontins

Posted by Liz Dance on 21/5/2025, 8:08 am, in reply to "Brittania Hotels/Pontins"

Brian, I think that is exactly what is happening, I read quite sometime ago that abandoned holiday camps, like Pontins, were going to be used to house migrants, I am sorry but I really feel that the accommodation given to migrants is far to generous, old military sites should be used. I know local residents would not be pleased to have migrants roaming round their towns and villages, but military sites are big enough to allow migrants to be able to wander round the site to get exercise.

The asylum seeker applications for Asylum could be heard at the camp in a prompt manner, refusals could then also be dealt with quickly, this nonsense about using 3 and 4 star hotels at our expense is totally unacceptable and should be stopped immediately.

Re: Brittania Hotels/Pontins

Posted by Brian on 21/5/2025, 8:41 am, in reply to "Re: Brittania Hotels/Pontins"

The Pontins sites are not in good condition but top dollar will still be charged by Britannia for the site, they run the hotels on minimum staff, Pontins sites would be the same but without entertainment staff and possibly around 1500 plus on a camp you're looking at some serious money involved.

Re: Brittania Hotels/Pontins

Posted by Liz Dance on 21/5/2025, 8:49 am, in reply to "Re: Brittania Hotels/Pontins"

If the Government deem the sites to be good for migrants the cost won’t even be thought about!!!

Some of the Britannia hotels are / were fantastic buildings of much grandeur from a bygone age such a pity they are being used as they are these days.

Re: Brittania Hotels/Pontins

Posted by Brian on 21/5/2025, 10:02 am, in reply to "Re: Brittania Hotels/Pontins"

They were Liz but have been systematically run down since Brittania took them over, a very shabby chain with very shabby hotels. One review said you wipe your feet on the way out.

Re: Brittania Hotels/Pontins

Posted by Liz Dance on 21/5/2025, 10:12 am, in reply to "Re: Brittania Hotels/Pontins"

I did read that Brian, such a pity that buildings like some of the very grand hotels are not maintained to a certain standard, but everything seems to be going down to the lowest level, no pride In anything anymore.

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