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To go self catering in butlins

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Lennon80 · 11/07/2024 18:47

I’m about to book butlins - never been as an adult only in 80s as a kid. If I go self catering are there restaurants you can eat in and pay rather than go all inclusive? Shops on site? Also which is better Skegness or minehead? Thanks

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Greyblind09 · 11/07/2024 19:16

YABU to be going to Butlins

InfoSecInTheCity · 11/07/2024 19:09

Yes there are restaurants on site that you can just pay to eat in, if we go back that's what I would do. We went for the first time this year, DD loved it, I tolerated it but we had fun, it's just really full on.

The one thing we agreed we didn't like was the meal plan, we'd gone with the 'premier' one so it was a nicer restaurant and food choice than the basic plan but it was essentially just a really big buffet and it was busy from start to end so lots of queuing, every table full, kids weaving in and out around tables.

I needed something a bit quieter.

We went to Skegness, they had papa johns, an American diner, a fish n chip shop and an ice cream parlour that you could book a table in or do take out.