New Butlins hotel opens
Butlins’ new £20 million family hotel at Bognor Regis opened this week.
The design led Ocean Hotel features 200 contemporary rooms with colour change lighting, rainfall showers and 75% of rooms will benefit from private balconies overlooking the sea and the South Downs.
The hotel also boasts disco lifts, an interactive fish projection reception floor, landscaped gardens and a family friendly restaurant and bar.
Rooms available are two-berth, four-berth and extended five berths plus 10 accessible rooms.
All family rooms feature a separate children’s den boasting full size beds.
Other facilities include all-day check-ins, room service and full access to Butlins entertainment on resort.
The hotel also features an Ocean Spa, with a snow cave and a glowing hydrospa, framed with a wall of water cascading down from the ceiling.
The Ocean Hotel follows the opening of the Butlins Shoreline Hotel in 2005.
Three night ‘Summer School’s Out’ breaks start from £480 for two adults and two children sharing a Mariner four-berth room with South Downs views from August 21..
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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