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About Us
We offer a range of distinctive parks in some of the most popular resorts along the coast. Each has its own style and character – but always with the same high standards of accommodation and service.
Facilities vary from park to park, but usually include a leisure pool complex and club house with regular entertainment.
At Park Holidays UK we always aim to offer customers the very best value for money with our affordable caravan holidays. If you are looking to own your own holiday home we offer a wide range of great value models to suit all tastes and budgets.
Their first park was Frenchman’s Beach at Rye in East Sussex, which is still a part of the Park Holidays UK portfolio today (now called Rye Harbour). The business expanded with other parks in the East Sussex and Kent area joining the group which became known as Cinque Ports Leisure – the name being associated with the port towns that helped defend the UK during the Napoleonic Wars.
The business continued to grow and in 2001 made a major leap forward when 11 parks were bought from Haven Holidays. These parks stretched from Sandhills in Dorset to Felixstowe Beach and Suffolk Sands in Suffolk.
The business continued to prosper, with further individual parks being added. In 2006 Jim Watson retired, and Graphite Capital made a major investment into the business. This has allowed a substantial investment programme to take place including the acquisition of 6 holiday parks in Devon.
In 2007 the company was renamed Park Holidays UK – to reflect our expansion away from the Kent and East Sussex area and the growing holiday and short break aspect of the business.
The Caledonia group were the main investment group from 2013 and invested strongly within the company in the areas of holiday and holiday home ownership.
In 2017, Intermediate Capital Group plc (ICG) acquired a majority stake in the business and their investment will continue to provide a platform for further improvements to our existing parks and growth through acquisitions.
Today Park Holidays UK is the largest holiday park operator in the South of England. In recent years the company has continued to add to its portfolio of parks with a current total of 33 holiday parks now under the Park Holidays UK umbrella.
We are fortunate that our holiday parks are close to the major towns and cities of the South and the East coast. Individual travel choices will have a dramatic impact on emissions – travelling to one of our holiday parks is likely to have a much lower impact than flying abroad or even travelling longer distances to more distant UK destinations.
As we mostly market ourselves online we have a further benefit – each year we sell more holidays, but print fewer brochures. We are committed to continue our focus on using less and less paper.
On park we design our buildings to try and minimise energy use, and local management are financially incentivised to reduce consumption and control waste. We believe in the principle of ‘think globally, act locally’.
When it comes to accommodation we also put green principles to the fore. We employ a refurbishment strategy to extend the life and improve the quality of our accommodation.