Park Resorts
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Park Resorts is a British company which owns a number of well established holiday parks around the United Kingdom. The company, managed by Bourne Leisure, was established to take on the smaller parks from Haven Holidays, while Haven's brand was used on its larger and more popular sites. Within their first year, they inherited 12 holiday parks previously branded by Haven. [1]. The company merged with Great British Holiday Parks in 2004 (see link above), and brought its grand total of holiday parks up to 35. Although the company is not legally related to Haven & British Holidays, it is owned by the same parent company, Bourne Leisure. A clue is the similarity between the Haven logo and its own, and also the about us page on their site mentions that their management has "thirty years of experience", which suggests Bourne Leisure and Haven Holidays. It is also noted that their caravan sales department is named "Owners Elite", while Haven & British Holidays' is named "Owners Exclusive". Both logos incorporate the "O" and "E" from the name, and ownerselite.com points to ownersexclusive.com
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[edit] Facilities
Because the majority of the holiday parks were previously owned by Haven Holidays, the facilities are plentiful. Like Haven, Park Resorts uses brands for its facilities, such as "SportResorts" and "WaterResorts". In addition, the entertainers are named "Teamstars" where in Haven, they are named "Funstars". Unlike former British Holidays holiday parks, all those branded as Park Resorts have gone under a massive re-branding scheme, and there is no evidence of any previous names or companies, whereas former British Holidays parks have not been re-branded at all.
[edit] Holiday Parks
The company owns 35 holiday parks across the UK. Some have been inherited from Haven Holidays and others were previously independent:
- Cresswell Towers (Druridge Bay)
- Sandy Bay (North Seaton)
- Whitley Bay (Tyne & Wear)
- Church Point (Newbiggin by the Sea)
- Crimdon Dean (near Hartlepool)
- Cayton Bay (near Scarborough)
- Barmstone Beach (near Bridlington)
- Withernsea Sands (Withernsea)
- Sunnydale (Mablethorpe)
- California Cliffs (near Great Yarmouth)
- Breydon Water (near Great Yarmouth)
- Kessingland Beach (near Lowestoft)
- Heacham Beach (near King's Lynn)
- Naze Marine (Walton-on-the-Naze)
- Weeley Bridge (near Clacton-on-Sea)
- Martello Beach (near Clacton-on-Sea)
- Valley Farm (Clacton-on-Sea)
- Highfield (Clacton-on-Sea)
- Coopers Beach (Mersea Island)
- Waterside (St. Lawrence Bay)
- Shurland Dale (Isle of Sheppey)
- Ashcroft Coast (Isle of Sheppey)
- Warden Springs (Isle of Sheppey)
- St Margaret's Bay (near Dover)
- Romney Sands (New Romney)
- Camber Sands (near Rye)
- Nodes Point (near Ryde
- Thorness Bay (near Cowes)
- Lower Hyde (Shanklin)
- Bideford Bay (near Bideford)
- Camarthen Bay (near Kidwelly)
- Brynowen (near Aberystwyth)
- Tŷ Mawr (Abergele)
- Sandylands (Ayrshire)
- Eyemouth (Berwickshire)
