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Best value UK holiday parks (and the surprising freebies they include)
From Potters Resorts to Center Parcs, we reveal the resorts where you get the most for your money
Center Parcs is celebrated for its family-friendly forest holidays in five UK locations. But a stay doesn’t come cheap - and that’s before you’ve added meals, activities and entertainment.
So is it time to look past the holiday park heavyweights? Our four picks all ranked higher in our most recent survey of the best UK holiday parks and were awarded four stars for value for money (no provider got the full five).
From all-inclusive Potters Resorts to Which? Recommended Provider Hoburne Holidays - where you’ll have free reign of the pools, gym, sauna and steam room - these are the UK holiday parks where you’ll get more for your money.
Potters Resorts
Price per night £110
Customer score 87%
There are only two resorts - one in Essex and the other on the Suffolk/Norfolk border - but Potters is where you’re likely to see most value. Not only was it top of the pile in our survey, but stays are all-inclusive; meaning all your meals, alcoholic drinks and activities are thrown in.
You can bed down in a bungalow, hotel room or suite facilities in scenic settings: Norfolk’s stay is located right next to a golden sand beach.
Activities (including bowls and rifle shooting) and West End-inspired entertainment are also part of the package – both rated five stars by visitors.
Potters itself promises ‘no hidden charges or nasty surprises’, which guests told us they appreciated. One visitor praised the high standard of the food, adding: ‘you did not need to worry about having money with you or thinking about the bill adding up.’
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John Fowler Holiday Parks
Customer score 77%
John Fowler promises to deliver a good-value family holiday without charging for lots of ‘hidden extras’ once you’re at the park. There are 13 different sites in coastal locations of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Wales.
The heated pools, kids’ club and programme of entertainment are all free - and you won’t have to keep your own gas and electricity meter topped up either.
Accommodation includes caravans, lodges, chalets and glamping pods - so you can cater for yourself or eat in one of the on-site cafes or restaurants. Happy customers described the food and drink as good and reasonably priced and felt there were plenty of facilities to keep them entertained.
Hoburne Holidays
Price per night £47
Customer score 75%
With nine parks in unspoilt locations in Dorset, Cornwall, Devon and the Cotswolds, Hoburne Holidays gets you back to nature. Think forest trails, coastal views and lakeside settings.
There are top-notch facilities (rated four stars) like golf courses, fishing lakes, swimming pools and spas - with many included in the price of the holiday. It’s no wonder that guests rated it good value: Hoburne is the holiday park with the cheapest price per night in the top half of the table.
Accommodation was also well-rated with lots of home comforts thrown in: for example, chalets at Hoburne St Mabyn in Cornwall are equipped with a wine cooler and hot tub as standard.
Many told they were repeat visitors to Hoburne parks, with one commenting: 'It was good value, lots of entertainment and plenty for the kids to do.’
Waterside Holiday Group
Price per night £69
Customer score 74%
This family-owned brand has four parks in scenic beach-front locations of Devon and Cornwall. Each site has its own personality: from lively Bowleaze Cove with its own funfair to the more serene Tregoad, immersed in nature.
Facilities (rated four stars) include paddleboarding, Segway trails and archery - although some of these will cost extra.
Caravans are comfortably wide, with central heating and double glazing, plus widescreen TVs and fully-equipped kitchens - so you can cook for your family on the cheap. You can also choose a lodge, an apartment, or even glamp in a safari lodge with a private hot tub.
Summing up a recent trip, one visitor told us: 'It was the cleanest and best maintained holiday park we have been to. There were lots of facilities to keep you entertained.’
Center Parcs, Pontins and Park Holidays UK: poor value for money
Three brands mustered only two stars for value for money, including holiday park heavyweight Center Parcs. All of its five sites are set in 400 acres of idyllic forest. The problem is how much you have to fork out for activities and facilities once you’re there.
For example, at its Sherwood Forest park you’ll have to splurge from £70 for a spa session before you add any treatments. Kids activities are equally eyewatering: £54 for your child to forage for twigs and leaves to build their own den.
So it’s unsurprising that the brand also received just two stars for its variety of free facilities. As one visitor put it: 'Everything was extra and it already felt expensive enough and meant I didn't end up doing a lot of activities I wanted to.’ Another simply summarised: 'Fun time but expensive!’
Pontins and Park Holidays UK also failed to impress despite both costing around £40 per person per night on average.
Pontins, which is owned by Britannia Hotels - rated the UK’s worst hotel chain 12 years running - only has two remaining parks after a series of closures. It was ranked bottom in our survey, with one visitor describing it as 'filthy and run down’.