Butlins Holiday Camp Advert 1966

Showing the Monorail; the Ski Slope; Waterskiiing; the Wild West Saloon and (most exotic of all) the Tiki Beachcomber Bar, with yummy-looking cocktails ("glamorous concoctions") priced at only 4 bob.
Scanned from a faded 16mm film where we have managed to replace some colour. Roll on summer holidays!

[@jaynestag95]

This is how I remember this. A real magical holiday. Loved the monorail. 😊

[@suave-rider]

looked like a concentration camp

[@pattymelt-go3fv]

oh @@suave-rider you are just awful!
LOL.....

[@spud912]

I remember going to the Beachcomber bar during the day to take a look
As during the evening it was obviously for adults only ..I was about 10 at the time, now 63 .
My mum n dad are now 91 and 88 .
Absolutely loved Butlins went to pretty much all the camps from the late 60,s 70,s

[@janeokeeffe5297]

Great times great memories

[@spud912]

@@janeokeeffe5297 It was a magical time as a kid .We couldn't wait to get to the camp .we used to stop half way at the side of the road and eat sandwiches that mum had prepared for us ,and a flask of tea with a red tartan pattern on it lol .
When we finally arrived ,seeing the gates and the funfair in the background was just brilliant 😁👍.
A whole week of doing what we wanted .Mum n dad let us go off and we'd just meet up for dinner at the dining room ..Happy days indeed.
I remember the music🎶 they used to play over the tannoy to wake us up in the mornings .There was a speaker 🔊 in every chalet if I remember rightly 😁

[@janeokeeffe5297]

@@spud912 yes it was a great time, I remember it all so clearly , even the time my sister an I got stuck in the chair lift half way up because of the wind🤣seemed like we were there for ages, , fantastic times wish we could go back it was like you said magical 👍yeah I do remember the music 🎶 they played in the chalet’s radio butlins calling 🤣

[@spud912]

@@janeokeeffe5297 😂👍.
I'd love to go back in time to about 1974 .I remember going into a daytime disco and hearing Rock your baby by George mcrae 🎶 Whenever i hear that song it instantly takes me back to that day aged 13 .
The last time I went to Butlins was a Filey in 1977 age 16
I'd been to pretty much all the camps including bognor ,Minehead, Clacton, Skegness, Filey , Yarmouth.
Such a shame they closed a lot of them ,and are not the same

[@janeokeeffe5297]

@@spud912 yeah same we went to all the butlins from the 60s through to the 80s the only one we didn’t go to was Ayr, it was just a bit to far, 1974 was a great time for music, I remember the disco at Filey was great, I was at Skegness the year Elvis died and they played his songs the whole time, we were probably at one of the camps at the same time 😀it’s a small world

[@perky26hughes]

Fantastic!

[@rar321blue]

Fab..truly.

[@Horriblebastad]

I rightly miss me lickle olidays at butlins. Loved the Western gay bar. No kids allowed back then.

[@suave-rider]

pre Grindr of course

[@قرفص]

@@suave-rider 😂😂😂

[@mothball5425]

The Canadian totem pole in the tropical bar

[@neilhilton35]

Brilliant. 😊