Keep your kids’ summer holidays screen-free at Butlin’s in Minehead where there’s something for all ages – even those hard-to-please teens
From Thomas The Tank Engine stage shows to mini discos and magic acts, I look back on our early years family holidays at Butlin’s as halcyon days. When soft play, splashing in the baby pool and being pushed on the swings ruled. And you could take the kids to watch the Little Mix tribute band and pass them off as the real thing.
Then Covid struck, they were suddenly at âbig school’ and a mobile phone became a permanent extension of their right arm. Would we ever go back to my beloved Butlin’s again?
I’d seen the TV advert for this year’s new shows. Starring Mr Saturday night himself, Stephen Mulhern, he talked it up as “the home of entertainment” with big new draws, the Masked Singer Live on stage, a high-tech dance troupe, and their very own ode-to-Glasto summer festivals show. It all looked rather exciting.
And with the activities we’d never even touched when the kids were little â the big raft rides at the indoor Splash Waterworld, high ropes course and laser tag to go at â Butlin’s was back on the agenda.