We hired the Beverley Sisters to sing on the sound track, as they used to work at Butlins. It was an unreal shoot and it still amazes me that Butlins went with the idea!

@twitchygiraffe4636

Жыл бұрын

This is almost avant garde at the start of this ad?! Like the ghost of The Beverly Sisters echoing out of the chalets and the dining rooms, before everything of the past Butlins get’s blown to bits! (Eventhe Beverly Sisters ghosts!!!!)

@lynmiddlehurst9120

Жыл бұрын

@@twitchygiraffe4636 In those days, we did ads that were more like mini movies. Nowadays, they would probably have a lot of people dancing for no reason at all....

The chalets are the old staff chalets at Bognor Regis. The dining room was the staff canteen, and I seem to remember the rest of the camp was Filey which had closed down four years' earlier, but was still standing, just!

I actually like the old butlins instead of the new

Ahhh the 80's what a great decade

I stayed in those chalets has a kid and now I take my kids to Butlins I was walking and saw some lasting chalets many great memory's came back to me

i stayed in them old chalets as kid happy memories!

This Butlins advert is creepy as fuck but I love watching the explosions lol!!!

@gavinpowers1217

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it has a bit of a feeling of 'The Shining' about it before the explosions but I love all that!

@sk_iiesroblox5408

5 жыл бұрын

JJMCB26 the music and things.. This does not represent Butlin’s..

@ItzLogan07

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more

@blueroses7935

2 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of old public information films (like the dangers of chip fat fire) or grim films like 'Threads' or 'On the Beach'. I'd never seen it before today, but it certainly seems like a novel (and potentially brave/risky) marketing technique - for better or worse, it's attention-grabbing, even now.

@wilbat0

Жыл бұрын

Hello

I remember staying in chalets like this and eating in the restaurants in the 70s and 80s. Days gone by now but nonetheless I find this hard to watch now.

@kevinbaskin9489

4 жыл бұрын

I totally get you

@mikekaraoke

3 жыл бұрын

Why do you find it hard to watch?

This makes me feel kinda sad..did Barry Island as a kid regularly, and loved it..went to 2017 Butlins and hated it. I'd pay anything to have one more week with those I loved in old Butlins...hi De hi! 😔

Well, somebody must have thought that was a "clever" idea. Just seems like they were rubbishing all my happy childhood holidays. It never ended up being bettered though.

@MatgoStyles

3 жыл бұрын

It was a clever idea - the camps were outdated and dilapidated, incapable of competing against all the new holiday options that arose during the 70s and 80s.

Butlins. Happy family times.

For those moaning about how much Butlin’s has changed since and that it should’ve stayed the same because you don’t like it now, you only have to look at the state of Pontin’s the last 15 years to now, to see what could’ve happened to Butlin’s if it too refused to change with the times.

I stayed in those chalets when I was a kid I take my children to Butlins now and I take my kids to Butlins now and I was walking and saw so e lasting chalets many great memory's came back to me

I suppose this was meant to be a metaphor, but it would have freaked me out in the 80s. (I was a young child back then, but I don't recall seeing it). It would've made it seem as though Butlins was going to be destroyed. Plus, there isn't much sense of what to expect of the 'new' Butlins. (I guess it was too early to show anything when this was filmed.) The whole vibe feels weird, though it definitely grabs your attention. In contrast to this ad, I don't feel as though the remaining camps changed that much during the mid-late 80s/early 90s holiday worlds era other than the branding (my favourite Butlins holiday is Minehead 1990). There were still the main buildings, outdoor funpools, chalets, dining hall, monorail, chairlifts etc, plus the Sunsplash was a refit of the existing indoor pool. The actual changes seemed pretty minimal compared to what was implied here. The changes from 1998 onwards have been a lot more dramatic.

They blew up the Hi-Di-Hi image style of Butlin's in this advert?!😂 Spectacular, but it would seem with it being diphalated and abandoned, and it was a junk universe of that era, it seems spooky unlike the 1999 to 2004 junk universe of Butlin's that I visited, where it was still thriving.....

@movesky6696

4 жыл бұрын

try 1 at bognor regis butlin's

@MatgoStyles

3 жыл бұрын

I visited Butlins Minehead in the 90s and parts of it still had this sort of accommodation. It was like stepping back in time. I remember sharing a table in the canteen with a nice elderly couple, and even they were amazed at how unchanged and dated it was. "Come on then, let's go back to our billets" the old man would say as he returned to the chalet from breakfast.

So, Butlins and Odeon were owned by the same people: The Rank Organization. I wonder if they had Odeons *at* Butlins?

@sks2002

4 жыл бұрын

Yes they had Odeons at Butlins. They had them around the 90s and they still have them under ABC Cinemas which is a name owned by Odeon.

@MatgoStyles

3 жыл бұрын

@@sks2002 That's right. They're in such a poor state I doubt Odeon wanted their name on them anymore which is why they changed it to ABC.

@sks2002

3 жыл бұрын

@@MatgoStyles it’s actually because of the Bourne buyout around 2000. Rank wanted to have high street names in the places at the time e.g. Burger King, Jumpin Jaks, Hotshots, Pinewood Studios Bar and Odeon. Jumpin Jaks reverted to Jaks since Jumpin Jaks was sold to someone else, the Hotshots name was also sold with butlins to Bourne since Rank either closed or changed the places to Mecca Bingo halls and Odeon was sold to Cinven. The ABC name was given to the resorts around the 2000s since they’ve probably had the Odeon licence expired.

@Landie_Man

3 жыл бұрын

@@sks2002 beleive it or not, ABC bought odeon at the time.

Calling all people here born in the 2000s, is this slightly creepy? 🥶

Sadly prophetic for Filey and Barry. 😞

thats what butlins did in the 1980s but they had to do if they didn't butlins wouldn't exist

Here's a link to the advert kzread.info/dash/bejne/oGGi17aod8qzYqQ.html

whats the name of the song?

@driverdoozer

5 жыл бұрын

Finally found it at the end of this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/h6iTytakpKzHeaQ.html. It's "We met at Butlins" by the Beverley Sisters, a specially written song.