Butlins Minehead Sunsplash Pool in 2011
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- The Butlins Minehead "Sunsplash" Pool opened in the mid 1980's and closed in 1998. It's still there now just wasting away. Here is what it looked like when I managed to sneek a look recently. Compare it to the photos from 1986.
Such a shame Butlins was great in the 1980's a holiday you never wanted to end (as a kid anyway) ... How they have ruined it now... Great video mate..
I tell you what, Butlins is different now to what it was even 20 years ago. Redcoats used to be roaming everywhere, now they're only present during events. Same with the Skyline Gang, they used to roam around and it was exciting when you saw them around the campus, now you only seem them around the stage area. It's like they're cutting way back.
Thank you for uploading this, as a teacher we used to bring the school kids here as well as family holidays late 80's into the late 90's until it closed. I remember this pool in 1981 as just a rectangular pool before it was changed to Sunsplash. Great memories and glad to see it still exists even if it is in this state.
The "Sunsplash" on the 1st floor of the Regency buliding was opened in the mid-late 80's. This was a funpool as shown in the video. The Oasis pool was opened soon after as an alternative to the Sunsplash. The Oasis was a normal rectangle shape swimming pool. Later the Oasis was expanded and made into a funpool called,"Splash Waterworld" and the original "Sunsplash" on the 1st floor of the Regency was closed. This left Butlins with no regular swimming pool for just swimming.
such great memories. My family and I used to go there in the early 90s and I spent my 13th birthday there too. happy days
Holy smoke. Some of the happiest moments of my life were in that pool. 😢
Do you know what the see through pool was? I went there in the mid 90s again and they had table tennis in a room. There was a massive see through glass and you could see a massive pool. It was bloody scary
i had a dream last night when i went to an abandoned butlins in the desert, it was old, i was on my own, music played, it was tiny, there was three caravans and an outdoor pool with not much water and a ticket booth with a man in it that looked dead, it was surely a sign that i was gonna find this on my recommended
spent many a fun day in this place in the 80's. watching this video is just eerie. like part of my life has been frozen in time.
Well, at least they didn't blow it up for a TV advert :-)
they recently cleaned it and i am so excited cos me,one of my friends, my mum and one of her friends are going to Butlins in the last week of July this year for a weekend (from Friday morning/afternoon to Monday morning)
Cheers for uploading this, it bought back lots of memories. Although I much prefer the newer Splash, it's a shame to see this left to rot. My mum always said in this pool "there were underwater windows for the people in cafe below to see a bit of leg".
Yes. There were. I remember watching The Chinese Detective on the TV they had in the corner in the cafe.
Wow, I would love to try and find the Sunsplash Pool when I visit Butlins at Minehead. Even if it gets me into trouble.
Here's a tip near the diner is a door with now handles but one door has a alarm
@@cattyproductions9806 Oh right. :) I've never urbexed before, but the old Sunsplash pool is definitely worth me trying to find.....
Great video. If you look closely at 4 sl.09, you can see the tiles are slightly different colours from where the flumes used to be.
the sunsplash opened in may 1986, it was my first year as a redcoat and for a short time a redcoat would have to work on the consol and work the features and announcements. IT was a good pool but some people moaned that they wanted a proper pool. its said how its ended up
What a trip down memory lane! thanks :)
Is this the pool where in the sixties there were plant things hanging from the ceiling and there was a café next door with underwater windows where you could see people's legs go swimming by?
No way thats amazing went there many times as a kid im 45 now lololol
So weird how some of the underwater pumps appear to be still on...
It's pumping out chlorine but the drains aren't on, still weird...
duhitz cerysxo I know that's strange.
I believe the water is connected to a sprinkler system in the case of fires. Makes sense.
this pool is still here, the reason its so messy is because butlins have local intruders who sneek in and chuck stuff in the pool, the pools water is indeed used for the skylines sprinkler system, but view with caution as sun splash is regularly patrolled by the resort saftey team
we went to butlins this year its still there just not open its above where the new diner places is
I bet you were gutted to see your childhood holiday centre so deteriorated and abandoned. I remember Funsplash at Skeggy. Everything has to change but it does scar your memory. Those chairs the red backed metal ones were in the ballrooms.😓😓😓😓
When they added a new slide to Sunsplash in 1997, did the slide use the splash pool or a runout lane?
I was told when i worked their, that the water is used for the sprinkler system? Not sure if that true. For the hobby horse below
Just got back from mine head today. I managed to sneak in to sunsplash but it was at night. I will try to upload the 3 short videos I filmed
Renovating work happening atm, not sure if pool is gone.
Would love to see it used as an adults only spa. It could be great.
Nice idea
Just watched a video of this pool from 2022 for some reason the pool was cleaner and the pumps were on???? I'm so confused
I once heard a rumour that the water in the pool would be used for the water sprinklers in the floor below. I don't know how true that is?
Where is the pool located in the resort?
I think they should clean it all out and make a new one there :)
The old flumes were much better than the new ones, I think the black hole would be to dangerous now, you used to have to go down laying on your stomach, if I remember rightly.
You're correct!
We used to swim here when holidaying half board in the 80's and early 90's it's a shame too see it in decay, Butlins was fantastic in those days never in our chalet to care less if it was almost falling down us kids were out all day lol . I remember the black flume well when I was older enough or the right height for it I was up and down that thing all week lol, is the big snooker hall still there and the mono rail. Butlins of today doesn't seem as good sad times :( god I feel old 37 lol.
I remember the timer where you could set a speed record. Me and my mates used to challenge each other as children back in the 90’s. Great fun, I sneaked in a couple of years back and showed my eldest the old pool, he’s been going to butlins since 2002 and never believed me that it existed until I showed him. Great memories.
I believe that this was built to trial some of the components being considered for the New waterworlds. The other sites had new pools built on the success of this one. Then when they where complete they went back to Minehead and built the new pool there.
do you know if you can get in there today? I'm off to Minehead in 3 weeks and want to see if I can get in..
how did get in there
Great film, such a shame ...I went here in 1988...the flumes were great!....I remember the red one being black on the inside so it was dark....'the Black Hole':)
Great fun.....also whilst there, saw The Rapiers play ...I think in Barnums Bar??.....superb!
What a great time.
The Splash Waterwold actually started out as a regular swimmimg pool called the Oasis. This was later expanded into a funpool and became Splash Waterworld.
It looked a lot bigger when i was 10
spent some good times in here,im at butlins now how do you find a way in?
It’s the first two white doors next to the diner
I have spotted a hole in the roof of the Sunsplash building from outside of Butlins Minehead in June 2012. I wonder how long it has been there? Has anybody else spotted it? I am sure that is why the pool is green from all that rainwater!
hi mate i was just wondering were this is on site and how you get to it as i am doing a photography course and have been looking for this building for years now as i am young i dont no were the old regency building is so maybe you could tell me? i used to go to butlins skegness in the mid 90's befor it changed hands and the skyline was built
thankyou x x love the video by the way im gonna save it to my butlins playlist on here =D x x
@skyhawkerleigh Really?! I always thought that the Splash Waterworlds opened in the late 80s as part of their 'Holiday World' re-branding? I suppose if this is up on the first floor of Regency then they couldn't really have expanded it. Still seems odd that this was just left empty when they spent all that money on the new one.
glad you still have this ive not been there since 1986 im sure this pool was connected to another wasnt it? i hope you can still get in there as i would love to sho wmy kids now as im 40 lol
10 years later all still there you can still get in if nobody’s around to watch the door
@@tractorface1236 wow really?
I don't think anyone can just walk in and see this. I got lucky because the firedoor was left open
I find this really sad seeing as I used to come and use this pool. Shame they couldn't at least stop people destroying it and throwing chairs etc in.
im so checking this out next week
How did you get in? I'm going Butlins soon I rly wanna see that
Phil is TØP it doesn’t look like this they fixed it years ago and it’s u can actually swim in it now
Layla May it’s still out of bounds, I was there last week. I was trying to find a way in but it’s all locked up
Andy Mccabe I’m here now and I wanna find it where abouts is it?
@@laylamay998 incorrect it, it cleaned recently and nobody except Butlins staff is aloud up there, the water isn't up to standard for swimming in, just for the Regency Building sprinkler system.
@@andymccabe8725 you shouldn't be trying to go up there, its closed to the public for a reason, only Butlins staff are aloud up there.
@skyhawkerleigh Yeah i don't think any of the 3 Butlins parks have normal rectangular pools now. They all seem to be constantly changing their facilities so I guess this had to happen. Any idea what year the Oasis pool was changed into Splash Waterworld? I know the Holiday World re-branding started in 1987.
Yea this half the size of the one in Minehead now, But still very fun-So what other Water Parks have you been too?
lol i was at butlins when a red coats chalet caught fire
Im here now, how do i get in there?
Sneak in
Where abouts in Minehead resort is this I'm going next month?
Matt Sampson it doesn’t look like this anymore it’s actually better now and it has been for years now
@@laylamay998 We are going to Minehead in 3 weeks is it easy to get in ?
@@laylamay998 what do you mean by better now?
Matt Sampson you cant get in. It’s to the side of the skyline shut off.
Is thee still water in it now ?
It is in the 1st floor of the old Regency buliding but I'm afraid it is not open to the public!
I’ve been so many times now it’s 100% improved in 8 years it’s amazing now !
Just came back from minehead and saw this, was trying to get it, but couldnt would of love to, has any one else got any clips of it now
So is it still there today as in 2012?
Yes it was or still is connected to the sprinkler system
OMG IM GOING TO BUTLINS MINEHEAD TOMORROW! CAN YOU STILL GET IN THERE?
I was at butlins yesterday and we tried to get pin but the door was too stiff and so my friend tried to kick it in and then a red coat came to us and was like r u ok juys
I don't believe this is here I am in bultins now gonna go and find it
Matthew_nixon24 I’m here rn where is it?
Don't get why they closed it down
YES
Only open from the mid 80s untill 1998?! Hardly seems worth it! Butlins really do puzzle me sometimes. I mean why did they build the new Splash Waterworld (end of the 80s I think) if they already had this? And what's even more odd is that, I think, both the new one and this one operated at the same time as each other for some years. Why? Surely if people had a choice they'd go to the bigger one?
I could understand your comment if it closed 6 months later, Not after a very long 12 + a half years
Well done.
A redcoat showed me a picture on her phone and apparently there's a ghost up there
I didn't see any ghost. Perhaps it only comes at night? 😉
I would love to get in here! Is there still a way?
Unknown? I haven't been there in years
@@skyhawkerleigh Oh ok. Thanks for the information!
@@johncarcher yes you can still get in there
@@nathanstaite4584 May I ask how?
@@johncarcher everyone who gets in there seems to trash it so Unfortunately I’m not saying how to get in there sorry
They reopened
are u sure becuase i try to get in a lot and never do
Stalagmites grow up⬆️Stalagtites come down⬇️just like ladies tights fall down. Easy to remember.
Sorry mispelled stalactites
IS IN MINHEND A VERYOLD BUIILT
Went there in 1983 when the pool was a 50 metre, most of the lifeguards could hardly swim and the redcoats were a bunch of pricks.
mickey munkchunk it’s definitely changed now then cuz everyone’s rlly polite and the pool is all fixed and it’s not too deep
I wouldn't say most of them could not swim, But a few I would say!
However some and not all the red coats were pricks
Hi guys,
I work at Butlins Minehead as a Lifeguard and today we are going in to the old Sunsplash to remove everything
I might cya tomorrow?
Stop copying my stuff
what a waste!! just shows you what kind of money these company's have to be able to just to say fuck it leave it. wasters,wonder how much it cost to build in the first place!! more money than fucking sense
Woahh what happend
The pool closed in 1998/9 and is still unused today, except for the water in it being used for the sprinkler system in the skyline.
Cory Vazquez no. It is used but not as a pool. In 2006 they started holding a Christian festival at the site and they used this room for the kids/teens group. It now has a stage in it.
Hey Dominic- Are you sure this is the room your thinking of? During my last visit to Butlins Minehead (which to be fair, was in July 2014) the pool was still there. Are you talking about that large open area next to the pool behind the wall, or actually over the pool itself?
Cory Vazquez it's the large open area behind the wall. I want to the festival with my family 2 years ago and as I was in the open area, I remember wondering what was over the other side
Oh- i thought you were talking about the actual pool area itself. The stage does ring a bell actually. I am going to Butlins in Skegness this year, but the next time i go to Minehead i will go and look again.
Taking small children urbexing... Way to go on the responsible parenting...
r x fuck off
Why don't you stop being an idiot and get a life!