From slaving away in a steamy kitchen, to entertaining endless family members – it’s fair to say Christmas can be pretty ...

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When Billy Butlin opened his first eponymous summer holiday camp in 1936 on the promise of providing "a week's holiday for a week's pay" he knew that the term no frills made good business sense.

If your motto for an easy and carefree family holiday is “if the kids are happy, we are happy”, then you can’t go too far wrong at Butlins. Generations of families went to its holiday camps – ...

In fact if Billy Butlin walked into the holiday chain's latest venture, he might struggle to connect it with the rather more basic holiday camp he launched back in 1936. The Redcoats are still there ...

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What's it really like to become a Redcoat at Butlins in Skegness? Ben and Nicola are new to the job and have agreed to keep a diary for us as they go through the training. William 'Billy' Butlin would ...

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The knotted hankies and smell of chip fat are gone, replaced by rainfall showers, coloured lights, spas and avocado salad. Cassandra Jardine reports on a British holiday icon that is reinventing ...

Visitors to Butlins have slammed “filthy” rooms and claim the swimming pool was “closed for the summer”. Butlins Skegness in Lincolnshire has faced criticism from visitors, with many saying the east ...

Butlins is a name that has become synonymous with Skegness. Why? Well simply Skegness can be called the birth place of Butlins as it was near Skegness that Billy Butlin built his first holiday camp.