Pontins
Entrance to Brean Sands camp | |
| Pontins | |
| Company type | Private limited company |
| Industry | Holiday / Leisure |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Founder | Fred Pontin |
| Headquarters | St Helier, Jersey (registered office) Hale, Greater Manchester, England (contact address) |
Number of locations | 1 (2025) |
Area served | United Kingdom |
| Products | Family Holiday Parks |
| Owner | Britannia Hotels |
Number of employees | 715 |
| Website | sandbayholidayvillage |
Pontins is a British company operating holiday parks in the United Kingdom, founded in 1946 by Fred Pontin. It was acquired by Britannia Hotels in 2011. The company is currently dormant due to the public closure of its last remaining family holiday park and its website currently redirects to a new site for its parent company's Sand Bay adults-only village.
Pontins specialises in offering half-board and self-catering holidays featuring entertainment at resorts, or "holiday parks", as they have branded them. Accommodation is usually in the form of chalets (which Pontins calls "apartments").
In 2022, it was rated the worst British holiday park chain out of a field of 19 in a survey by consumer association Which?
As of April 2024, two of the remaining Pontins resorts (Brean Sands and Pakefield) were closed to the public for a temporary but extended period due to serving as accommmodation for construction workers on nearby projects. It is currently unknown if these two parks (one Pontins and one adults-only independent) will re-open or be sold off to other operators once the projects are completed.