I am BU. Holiday parks and 'chavs'!

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My dsis has informed me that I would be mad to book a Haven holiday in the UK since it will be full of rough people and chavs.

I have never been so I have no idea of the type of clientele.

I'm honest enough to admit that the thought of being surrounded by Jezza Kyle types is a little daunting.

There'll be dh and I along with our 3 dc and I just don't want to fork out a lot of money and feel uncomfortable and unable to use the facilities.

I hate judging people based on how they look/sound etc but she's been before and has really worried me!

We stayed at Haven Greenacres on a 'sun holiday' a few weeks ago.

It was lovely, not rough at all and all the other people staying on the park seemed pretty normal - mainly young families and older couples.

Only cost us £160 too. Imo Haven are one of the better holiday park chains.

I live near Littlesea and have visited my cousin and her family when they were staying there - it was horrible, very, very crowded and claustrophobic. Weymouth Bay (I think) on the other side of town looks lovely though.

We've been to quite a few holiday parks when the dc were smaller (though I think only one of them was Haven). I'd recommend Hoburne Bashley in the New Forest, was very clean and generally chilled atmosphere. Worst one was in Dawlish Warren, but I can't remember the name of it - cold, damp accommodation and the cot they gave us had dangerously broken bars.

There was a massive one at Selsey Bill we quite liked too, but there was no way you could get a table in the entertainment complex unless you camped out there from 5 p.m.

Completely off topic.
but I overheard a woman calling her (assume it was her granddaughter) Haven the other day.
I immediately thought of Haven Holidays.

Mumsnet gets the word chav very confused

I think so, too. Or people are determined to assign meaning to my words that shouldn't be there.

Working class, which I am or at least was growing up, is not chavvy.

The behaviour witnessed by posters on this thread is chavvy, no matter what your job or income is, no matter where you're from.

Philoslothy I doubt very much your family is like some of the examples here! You'd hardly be bragging about it if it was!

Chav = vulgar undesirable in fake ( or even real ) designer clothes. It does not mean, & never did mean, working class.

Yes mumsnet get chav mixed up with Wc and the think WC is not having a job too so chavvy. We call chavs neds in scotland

Watching thread with interest.

I live abroad and inlaws have offered to pay for us to stay at haven Weymouth Bay next summer. It fills me with absolute dread.

I spent my childhood holidays at Bashley Park and Sandy Balls how do they compare these days if you don't mind a thread hijack?

I'm currently thinking not worth a 5 hr flight.

Cba to read whole thread, op geography does make a difference. Smaller Haven sites are my preference, sounds like they would suit you too. Avoid Perranporth, try Riviere Sands in Hayle.
I disagree that a chav is working class. Round here chavs are track suit wearers, with bling, that often don't have jobs. They also tend to be urban dwellers.
Haven is great because you can be as involved or as independent as you choose. We use the pool, but don't go to the clubhouse. The caravans are clean, comfortable and modern. John Fowler parks tend to be very disappointing - avoid those!

I'm not sure where you live usual but chav does not = working class where I live ( London )

www.rivervalley.co.uk/

this place is lovely if you like Cornwall , really nice quiet site , exceptionally clean accomadation and facilities , little shop , nothing else !

As Pp's have said they are what you make them DH and I go to Scotland each year and stay on Parkdean sites in a top of the range caravan.
They are never noisy and there are plenty of people with children there.
Avoid the clubhouses if you go!

Over the past 20 years we have been on many "Sun Holidays" with or without Dc's, avoid overly popular areas and do read the reviews. Many that we have been to with chalets have been awful and I would suggest you go for a caravan as pricey as you can afford and you will find you will be in a quieter part of the park.

£12k holiday to Orlando, on the flight there we had people fighting in the rows, smoking in the loos and letting their DCs sprint up and down knocking into the crew.

£50 a night travelodge, lovely kids, no trouble and the pub adjoining was open all day.

I can assure you money doesn't influence the level of chav!

Definitely avoid John Fowler, I've stayed in two different parks of theirs and they were both awful.

MC people getting pissed on processco and letting their kids run riot would never be described as chavs

Anyone who sits around getting pissed while their children run riot is someone I want to avoid on a holiday that I'm paying for.

Why are you so determined to accuse me of WC bashing when nearly everyone else has been sensible enough to know that's not what this is?

I wouldn't ever go to a holiday park of the Haven/Pontins type for this reason. I have read far too many threads about loutish behaviour, rough parents and equally rough kids and have had friends who found a holiday at Haggerston Castle (not sure which brand that is) was so dire they came home after two nights.

Cabaret, slot machines and caravans are my idea of absolute hell. We're going self catering for a week in Cornwall in a cottage and that will be much nicer :-)

I didn't invent the word, usual.

Given me an alternative and I'll happily use it.

I think you are being unreasonable.

I haven't been to a holiday park since I was about 8 and it wouldn't be my thing, I'd always go abroad somewhere or to a cottage.

I wouldn't think somebody going to a holiday park was a chav, everybody has different tastes

We love a Haven holiday, went to Butlins Skegness last year and loved it.

We go before the school holidays in England so it is quieter. We have booked a private caravan for the past 4 years, always find out before booking where it is on the site.

I'll never forget what I saw two years ago though. DD and I were sitting in the restaraunt waiting for DP. A group of 6 adults, a toddler and a baby sat in the table next to us, the baby must have only been a few weeks old and was crying from when they arrived. The mum gave the baby the toddlers fruit shoot to drink, this stopped the crying for a bit. When the baby started crying again the mum proudly took the tin of formula out of the buggy. "Tada, look what I've got, Bob go to the bar"
Bob went to the bar and returned with a pint of water. The mum scooped the formula into the fruit shoot bottle, added the water from the pint glass, gave it a good shake and gave it to the baby.

I cried, with anger and sadness.

It's the shouting, swearing and cackling I don't like. Why must they be so loud?

Are they having a barney? Is it a form of greeting? Do they even know themselves?!

I don't care what people wear or what their parents did for a living as long as they're quiet.

I go on holiday to get a break from the noise of that certain type of person constantly gobbing off.