please name me your top places for a "ruffian" holiday ...

[nappyaddict]

so most of us hate them ... apparently my sister loves them. so hit me with your chavvy destinations!! please no one take offence by this ... she is living proof than some people like to embrace their inner chav.

My ds's would love all the places on here. I used to think Blackpool was THE best place when I was a kid also. Can't bear it now but have to make the pilgrimage annually for ds's.

lol Tsar - I went camping once (never again ) at St Ives, same thing, the tent blew away and we spent all night in the car (watching all the other tents blow over fnar fnar! This was in the middle of August (good ol' English summer)

Fio - agree growing up at the seaside is LOVELY when you are a kid, however because the place effecitvely closes for winter, and there was a high degree of unemployement and low-paid work in Ilfracombe meant it wasn't the best place when a teenager or a young adult.

i agree with you fio but not with blackpool

its all switchies (or amusement arcades as the like to be called) and really really bad places to eat - its all shit - chips chips chips

i love chips - but these are shit chips. brown with re-used fat
fat thats been re-used over and voer again

the b&bs are shit

not just oldfashioned seasidey kitch - but shit

dirty, no hot water, spam and oven chips SHIT

i have had food poisoning twice in blackpool

and once when i worked in a dialysis unit we organised a trip to blackpool for 32 dialysis patients - we were so worried to do the dialysis (it was home dialysis) in hte B&B cos it was manky

i also couldnt sleep at night worried about a renal patient getting food poisoning

i love other stuff about it like crap night entertainment in the hotels and the piers etc, but when you sleep on a damp mattress and have to share a filthy bath with 20 teenagers on a stag weekend it spoils it

Butlins at Skegness, Blackpool and Southport. Though I defnitely wouldn't recommend staying at the holiday park for the latter.

For some reason all the boy's annual football tournament trips are held at these type of places so have been to many

ahem ... back to your lists people

Nailpolish - do you not like Blackpool the (heehee )

Agree - it's dire. Went twice, b&b was like a prison, the worst breakfast I have ever had in my life. DD loved the pleasure beach though and would love to go back (never).

Worst thing was the CARNAGE on the streets agter dark, full of rough-arse stags and hens, and fights and people peeing in doorways everywhere

saffy - oooh i was led to believe southport wasn't in the same league as the others. is it just the butlins that is a bit ruffian or is the town like it too. i have told sis i don't mind going to one of these places she loves so much as long as i don't have to stay in butlins/pontins - hated the last one we went to cos it was really dirty.

Right, my top 5 list of vile holiday towns

Blackpool
Weston Super Mare
Minehead
Pwhiwelli (sorry for spelling)
New Romney, Kent

i owuld take the dds to blackpool - only id live out of town in a nice place and go ther for a day trip

no no i didn't say vile kitty did i i said ruffian

with a packed lunch

what about aberdovey, new quay or porthmadog in wales - what are they like? would they fit her criteria do you reckon?

OK, Ruffian (bloody good word!)

New Quay near Cardigan? Lovely fishing village from what I remember. Beautiful beaches, which might disappoin the authentic chav.
Tenby can be quite rough in the evenings, though perhaps too charming by day to be truly chavvy.

Southend
Cleethorpes (very good fish & chips there though on account of its proximity to Grimsby)
Weston Super Mare

Think there is a huge difference between a great old-fashioned seaside experience and somewhere "rough" though.

Live in Gloucestershire and my nearest seaside town is...Weston.

DP tried to take me there for the day in the summer, I refused and said the Weston was vile and it wasn't a real beach (just a stretch of mud). So he suggested Brean Sands (nope), Burnham (nope) Minehead (nope - made him drive me all the way to Woolacombe (that's a proper beach) ha!

"authentic chav"

LOL

Shagaluf? (Magaluf)
Playa de las Americas (Tenerifay)

Took the kids down to Clacton a while back - Hutleys the site was called - my grandma had a caravan there when we were young - I have to say whilst poking my nose in the air that it was dire - more pit bulls than you could shake a stick at and the tattoos!!!!

It had all the shite arcade and 20p machines that the kids like thogh - a pool and the beach is ok - yellow first aid caravan is gone though - had fond memories of them taping me up waiting for the ambulance in there when I broke my ankle!

South end on Sea is pretty chavtastic too!

if you would like to go somewhere common please try any butlins and blackpool

blackpool used to have a pontins - so yu could combine both.

if it is tourism - zoo style of a different base culture - please try crawley

ds loves Clacton soooo much

he wants to have his birthday party on the pier "and then we can go to one of the Clacton cafes for tea ...do they HAVE cafes in Clacton?"

yes soon but we never go there because you would get your head kicked in asking "do you have ripe brie?" or something

oh asre got sucked in AGAIN