1,916 Comments for The Pines Hotel

I want one of those old-fashioned phones! I want one of the really old ones, like from the '20's (sort of candlestick style). They sell ones like that nowadays, but their touch-tone. I want the old-fashioned dial. I would guess this particular phone is from the '70's?

whats that last number?!?! would creep me out even to TRY calling that.

kind of a miracle.... !

Lola, I'd tell you to go to Benedict Street Jail to get a cleaver, but it appears that someone beat you to it. :-)

I couldn't imagine having to look at that carpet smashed

It just makes me want to hit someone with a meat cleaver

It's a shame I dont live nearby... as a locksmith I could get him into every room in the complex very easily. If you ever know any places near tampa florida, let me know I'll let you in where ever if you give some credit! :-p

Twug, at the time the UK was in the depths of recession, and cheap package holidays to hi-rise hotels in Spain and Greece were also seen as a better option than UK chalet parks like this, which were associated with being quite dated, and were frequently more expensive than their Continental counterparts without the guaranteed hot weather (our maritime climate is variable, even in summer, to say the least).

Plus, the damage was eventually costed at £2 million, which added to the lost takings from the 1991 season (the park was fully catered and the restaurant, along with the site shop, lounges, bars, kids' club and most of the other indoor facilities) were destroyed or damaged enough to put them out of commission, and hence prevent bookings being honoured) quickly made the place a financial burden.

i think plans are afoot to flatten it once the asbestos has been removed from the 1960s buildings, and turn it into another dull housing estate :(

I spent many yrs in the Ritz. Then I was moved to the Holiday and Fiesta across the road.

Interesting site on Pontins Dolphin. So sad that they didn't rebuild after the fire. Thanks Rich.

And following on from the above comment, by the modern miracle known as the World Wide Web I just found a website devoted to the place! Although it's in even worse shape now than when I last saw it, even the Dolphin Holiday Village will live on in cyberspace... the sun will always shine on a blue ocean and chalets freshly painted for the new season, the lawns will forever be as neatly mowed as they were when I was seven years old...

http://www.pontinsdolphin.4t.com/

Yeah, architecturally it reminds me very much of a place called the 'Holiday Motel' in Torquay where we stayed a couple of times when I was but a nipper. Similar 1960s architecture, leaky flat roofs, flat-pack cardboard furniture, horrid colours. It too was 'minging' (as we say in England!) and it too died lol...

The neon light fitting is kinda cool come to think of it...

...and the chairs RULE.

Did ya'll have sex while ya'll were there? If not why not?
That would have been cooler than a log of shit off the pool that was frozen........you know, no power, no hot water...just a couple of bent up candles, a musky old bed overlooking the lake and.......wham bam thank you Mam!!!!

This is a VERY good shot. Lots to look at.