Butlin's Minehead Resort

From Devon Cliffs Haven we travelled for a couple of hours to Somerset and headed to Butlin's Minehead. That's our second destination from our last week's holiday.

There are three Butlins Resorts: Minehead, Skegness and Bognor Regis. Minehead is the biggest and oldest and is closer to Haven. That's why we choose to go in here.

My mother-in-law always takes my husband here when he was young. And my husband remembers this place as being great to be at.

That day was the hottest so far in England and was 34°. We are all sweating. After checking in we have to wait till 4 pm for our accommodation. So we have time to check out the place. And grab food.

We park near our accommodation we are in the West part. In front of where we park is the West Lakes Village

The accommodation here in this area is really good as this is a new one and I can tell you it cost a fortune to stay in one of these.

There's only standard and silver room available on the dates of our booking. And we booked the silver room. Butlin's is dearer than Haven.

My first impression, it's smaller than I expected. Or maybe because we went first to Haven that it raised the standard. It's like you can see everything that's in it in one go.

They have this Skyline Pavilion with all the arcades and games. Different restaurants and shops. They also have puppet shows and all the entertainments are here.

One of the good things is that most of the rides are free as long as you have the wristbands that we have. Others you have to pay for.

Here are some of the rides:

Lol, we enjoyed that!

The oldest ride here maybe is this one.

There's this mirror illusion that we had good fun. with

You can also hire these quads and family bikes.

They have an indoor and outdoor pool.

Here's the outdoor pool. And I think it should be bigger than this or should add more for there are too many accommodations they keep building which means too many guests and we all want to use the pool.

They only have this one outdoor pool and one indoor pool that I can't take pictures of.

And lol look at the queue in the morning!

And you are only allowed in the indoor pool for an hour. It was fun though. I enjoyed it. But the long queue in the morning ended up going to the beach instead. The beach is just in front of the road from Butlin's.

We left here a day before our check out because my husband can't stick our room. We are on one of the oldest accommodations I guess but still decent. It's too hot and the room has no aircon, no kitchen and sink. It's a basic room. We went to buy a fan on our first day ever extension cable coz there's only one socket.

Just to show you the room. I took the pictures before we left so I didn't make up the bed and make sure we don't leave anything behind.

The kids running and shouting early in the morning. Well, that's what we paid for. Can't complain because if you want better accommodation you have to book it early and pay a good amount of money.

And the thing is a meal for a family of 4 cost us at least £35 so it's an easy £100 a day just for food. Their shops are very dear. If there's a kitchen I can cook to make it cheaper but there's none. This is the reason why you should have good extra money if you're going on holiday. At least next time we know what to do.

So we packed our things after booking a place to stay in Blackpool. Though our accommodation let us down we still enjoy Butlin's. We will still be back in Butlin's but maybe not in Minehead. We will try the Skegness next time.

Thank you for reading.

I hope you enjoy a wee tour.