Are Butlins right to refuse bookings from solo travellers?

Then surely she can go on any of the weekends/weeks that aren't geared around kids?

I've just read the article.

This woman has been offered, by strangers,to tag onto their family booking but she's refused!!

No, she wants the Butlins policy to be changed.....well I say tough !!!

It's just an odd place to go without children what's she going to do why there, go in the play areas in the day then dance at the kids disco then sit and watch a kids magic show. Strange

@Auburngal She's going there because it holds nice memories for her. Not because it's the only place to go on holiday. A lot of people are sentimental about things and places.

I'm an adult, but I still like to walk through the caravan park I spent most of my childhood summers at because it brings back good memories. (Can't afford to buy one though because they cost more than my house!)

There is more to see and do than a bloody holiday park! It’s not like it’s the ONLY place to go on holiday!

She needs to get a grip and book somewhere else for a change

She needs to move on like her family’s tastes and wants.

I would not like to go and spend my time at a holiday camp with loads of screaming kids

Nah, it's not safeguarding reasons. It's about money. They lose out on money when one person takes up a whole unit. Plus all the food and extras additional people would spend while there. If they actually cared about safeguarding, they wouldn't allow all-adults group bookings either, but they do (up to 4 guests).

Yes, I know that, thank you….I was responding to OP who said she regularly cruised with a line that allowed children but she’d never seen anyone under 18 on it, that was all. I know perfectly well that adult only cruises don’t allow children! The clue, after all, is in the name.

While I think it's unfortunate for this woman, I imagine the vast majority of single adults wouldn't want to holiday around paranoid and self-entitled parents.

Yes, how dare people with children book family breaks. So entitled!

She really needs to move on with her life and try other holidays.We also don’t know the full picture.She would have more fun with friends the same age as her now.

Why can’t she advertise as a free child minder for a family who wants to go to this resort? Then she would get to go where she wants, a family would get some help with their kids? Everyone wins…..( even Butlins who get an extra customer).

Other peoples' children aren't responsible for providing her with a vibe.

Why can't she just book into a seaside hotel or a country cottage?

Well, safeguarding is a bit of a ridiculous rule when they don’t DBS check their staff or the fact that the majority of children are abused by someone in their own family. if they can’t offer single supplemented accommodation due to loss of income they should say that.

Kid are allowed on crusie ships unless its an "adults" only cruise

Is you saying that kids are allowed on all types of crusies if that the case, you are very wrong!!!

Every afternoon my wife would have a different spa treatment and the lovely Spa manager would gift the same 'mini' treatment to my daughter. Every trip we take, no matter where in the world, as she is very racially ambiguous - she always gets the "wow, she looks exactly like my daughter!" by staff and gets special treatment. That's exactly what happend here with the Spa Manager. Shes also one of those kids who has 'been on this planet before'. Her grandmother died of cancer a month before she was born. She never got to see her first grandchild so we gave her the name which means 'my mother has returned in you'. So appropriate!

My niece has cruised for years with her husband and, at the time, pre-school age children.

Of course pedophiles would take advantage of allowing solo adults at a family weekend in Butlins. Very very naive to think otherwise. Safeguarding is thinking the “unthinkable “

This ^

The most common risk to children comes from someone known to the family or a family member. ‘Stranger danger’ is much less common but anything that’s very child focused attracts those paedophiles. Theme parks, zoos, ‘family fun’ days, parks. Places where there are a high concentration of children.

I don't know why a single woman would even want to go to Butlins. There are lots of solo holidays that would be better.

It’s not the same though is it

They have a rule and she can go when it’s adult breaks

Your three year old was having a chocolate wrap massage? “Every day” she’d let her help feed the cats but literally the second day the pedo gran got her alone in her room? So after one day? And the manager of a holiday resort loved having a three year old around so much that she got free treatments daily?

I know, I'm a fool. 30 seconds later it hit us on the danger we put our daughter in. As I was about to go and find them they came back, daughter beaming with her new baseball cap, and we started feeling guilty for assuming this sweet old lady was a pedo, which is why maybe we gave her more of our misguided trust. This felt like textbook grooming. Every day they win your trust a little bit more.