Where the weekend is
Drop-offs directly at the hotel, the caravan reception, or the resort gates — no walk from an outer car park with a body-board and three cases.
Blackpool
The evergreen north-west favourite — Pleasure Beach, the Tower, the Illuminations and every hen weekend you've ever heard of.
Skegness & Ingoldmells
East Midlands seaside in its purest form — Butlin's, Fantasy Island and the whole ribbon of caravan parks between Ingoldmells and Chapel St Leonards.
Mablethorpe & Sutton-on-Sea
The quiet stretch of Lincolnshire coast — Golden Sands, Kingfisher and the Sutton-on-Sea parks.
Cleethorpes
Cleethorpes prom and Thorpe Park Haven — a direct A46 and A180 run.
Scarborough
North Bay, South Bay, Peasholm Park and the coastal caravan parks.
Whitby
Harbour, abbey and the North York Moors — a perennial Nottinghamshire long-weekend.
Bridlington
The Bridlington seafront and the coast-road caravan parks — around 2h 40 direct.
Great Yarmouth
Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, Haven Seashore and the Broads.
Hemsby & Norfolk Coast
Hemsby, Scratby and California — direct to your caravan door, no schlepping cases from an outer car park.
The Cotswolds
Bourton-on-the-Water, Bibury, Stow-on-the-Wold — an executive Mercedes for the country-weekend crowd.
Lake District
Windermere, Ambleside, Keswick, Bowness — door-to-hotel in about 3h 50.
York
Minster, Shambles, riverside pubs and the Christmas market — an executive Mercedes for the city break.
Alton Towers
Direct to the resort — theme park entrance, Splash Landings or the Enchanted Village.