Haven Holiday Parks

Haven Holidays is a chain of holiday parks in the United Kingdom. It operates self catering static caravan holiday parks with many also including touring and camping facilities. The company operates 41 sites in the UK in predominantly coastal locations.

The current Haven chain is formed from a number of acquisitions by its former brands, including Warner Holiday Camps (now trading as Warner Leisure Hotels). After deciding to focus more on its gaming operations such as Mecca Bingo, the Rank Group decided to sell its holiday arm. In October 2000, Bourne Leisure purchased the Rank Group's UK leisure arm, Rank Leisure, for Â700 million, which included the Haven, Butlins and Warner Leisure Hotels chains. Haven parks used to come under four categories and were defined by four different colours, All Action Parks (Red), Lively Parks (Blue), Leisurely Parks (Yellow) and Relaxing Parks (Green). Each park category would reflect what type of Entertainment and Activities would take place at that park and also reflect the size of the park.[3]

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Following the purchase of Haven by Bourne Leisure they decided to restructure the company and sold off the smaller parks in the company, 12 of these smaller parks were subject to a management buyout and went on to form a new holiday company; Park Resorts, some other parks were sold to Parkdean and Park Holidays UK, with Park Resorts and Parkdean later merging themselves to form Parkdean Resorts. Haven retained its larger parks and Bourne Leisure began integrating both Haven and its existing British Holidays chain in 2002, trading entertainment and facilities between the two brands, until the two companies merged in November 2004 under the name 'Haven and British Holidays'. Due to Haven being the better known name the British Holidays identity was eventually dropped completely by the end of the 2007 season.[citation needed]

In 2007, Bourne Leisure purchased Far Grange Park & Golf Club. The park was initially a Haven park for both holidaymakers and caravan owners, as seen in the 2008 brochure, however after just one season, the park has since become an Owners Only park.[citation needed]

In April 2015, Bourne Leisure purchased the Thornwick & Sea Farm Holiday Centre and Greenacre West caravan parks from Flamborough Holidays Ltd;[4] Thornwick & Sea Farm holiday centre's complex was redeveloped for the 2016 season and was rebranded 'Thornwick Bay'.

There are currently 41 Haven parks in the United Kingdom. The number of Haven parks peaked at 56 in 1999, not long before their merger with British Holidays in 2002, however many of the smaller parks were sold off throughout 2001 and again in October 2004 in a move that Haven said was to improve the standards of the larger and more profitable parks. The majority of parks were sold were to Park Resorts, Parkdean (both of which now merged into Parkdean Resorts) and Park Holidays UK (at the time known as Cinque Ports Leisure).

There has been a large number of Haven parks in the past that got disposed of between 2001 and 2004. These parks are mainly the smaller ones, or ones that don't seem to be near the coast, and most of them were sold to either Park Resorts, Parkdean, or Park Holidays UK, however there was a small number of Haven Parks that were sold to other Holiday companies, such as John Fowler Holidays.

US investment company Blackstone previously invested in Center Parcs UK and currently owns Merlin, which has grown to become the second largest operator of visitor attractions and theme parks globally.

Paul Flaum, Group Chief Executive Officer of Bourne Leisure, added: Today marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Bourne Leisure, for our guests, our holiday home-owners and our team members.

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DEPOSIT: A deposit of Â75.00 per week is required or full payment if the booking is made within 28 days of your holiday arrival date. The deposit must be received by the Park within 5 days of the original booking date or the booking may be cancelled. Payment can be made by cash, cheque, debit or credit card.

One of the big draws of this good value Scottish holiday park is its huge indoor waterpark, with flumes, waterfalls, lazy river and a three-lane racing slide. Not that the fun stops there; Haven Craig Tara also has an adventure village, where young-thrill seekers can climb, ride Segways and clamber across inflatable obstacle courses and mini-aeriel runs.

Sitting just north of the traditional seaside town of Weymouth and close to a nature reserve and sand and pebble beaches, this Haven holiday park is ideally located for a child-friendly break in Dorset.

We then did some online research, looking at which Haven holiday parks in the UK had won accolades or been featured in 'best choice' lists across websites, and what customer reviews said about them. Having collated all that information, we then narrowed our list down to the best family-friendly Haven holiday parks at the moment.

Summer Haven Hideaway breaks from Â199 for the whole family based on 3 night breaks staying in selected grades on a Haven Hideaway package at selected parks between 21 July to 31 August 2023.

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