I swear if this footage was showed to me without commentary, I would 100% say this is an urbex video of an abandoned theme park. I have seen better condition buildings in the local steelworks that's been abandoned for 20+ years!

This is heartbreaking as a single mum who struggles to make ends meet I’ve been desperate to take my little boy on his first holiday/staycation. I would be so upset if this what I was presented with after saving up to take him away, absolutely shocking!

Hollywood take note. This is a great location to  film a zombie apocalypse movie without having to spend extra money to make it look like it’s in a zombie apocalypse.

I wouldn’t take my dog here let alone my family. The fact they’re letting this happen is disgusting, they should not be happening especially when it’s a holiday park.Thank you for sharing and letting other people know of their disgusting unhygienic premises

Stopped there 4yrs ago because my mother in law thought she would treat us to a long weekend away.
There’s basically two types of people that go, one is the chav families that have the parents getting drunk every night/day whilst their kids run riot and smash the place up and the other is the absolutely bewildered family who obviously like us didn’t read the reviews and went whilst reminiscing about it back in the early 90’s, to end up in an open style borstal/prison.
We went Friday morning and came back late sat night and trust me I’m no snob and hate wasting money but it was the wrong kind of dirty weekend away for me 😂

As someone still haunted by a trip here as a child nearly 40 years ago I thought this might give me the closure I needed but I now feel like I've just unlocked the cube from Hellraiser and unleashed a new batch of horror :) Thanks for continuing to do these so that that (hopefully) others don't have to.

I was relieved to see that the in-ground trampolines with gaps around the side where the springs are and nettles growing through seem to have gone.

I'm a taxi driver in Southport. This place is actually in Ainsdale which is outskirts of Southport. The amount of trouble going on with this place is mad, police is there all the time - constant fights, stabbings, drug deals etc, that tells you what sort of "customers" goes there. Most taxi drivers ( including me) avoiding this place after 8pm. Stay away.

I understand some parents can’t afford fancy holidays so these are an option for them so that they can at least take their kids somewhere.
If I owned this place I would want the families that visited to have a clean, safe and comfortable place to stay. That rot on the frames is unforgivable.
Having said that the price isn’t much different to some camping places where all you get is a patch of grass.
I wish an investor would come in and buy these places up and create something nicer for children to stay.

Look if you don't have money to go on vacation, don't try to do it anyway or you'll end up at this hell. Just take your family buy some cheap snacks and go for a walk, literally anywhere but this place. This is not worth it in fact you should pay NOT to stay at this sad sad place.

How can great companies like Woolworths and Debenhams shut down yet somehow Pontins still exists?!

I used to live in Southport, and they used to say that if you were naughty as a child, they would send you to Pontins down the road and live there. It is an awful sight and should be pulled down.

As a housekeeper seeing the state of this place FREAKS me OUT 😵

I took my son to this park about 20 years ago, and although it was a bit shabby, I was impressed by the bluecoats and other staff who facilitated the kids' activities. For example, there was quite a long wait for the climbing wall, but every child who climbed was securely fitted with the safety equipment and encouraged to climb as high as they could, none of the children were rushed off the wall. The people of Southport were very friendly, on our first evening staying there my chalet neighbours were having a birthday celebration for one of their kids and their Mum asked me, "Is your little boy allowed to play out? Can he come over and have a piece of birthday cake?" which was a lovely surprise and very much appreciated.

That was insane… I would cry if I had to stay there for a night 🫣

This looks like where holidays go to die.

This actually makes me really sad... My Family used to Holiday here regularly before the standard dropped significantly and I will say that we made some fantastic memories at Pontins (and Butlins) camps. To see it like this, I don't know, just hurts to see places that made my childhood fall into almost un-inhabitability.

Lived in Southport most of my life and always wondered how bad it was in Pontin's after hearing nothing but horror stories about how bad it actually is, and this confirms everything I've heard. The running joke to us Southport locals is the barbed wire perimiter fence isn't there to stop people from breaking in, it's there to stop the guests from escaping. The whole place needs to be bulldozed and levelled to the ground, it's an absolute eyesore.

Stayed at the north wales pontins 2 years back, other than the windows weren’t so rotten it was exactly the same. Like a week in a 80s council flat

My parents took me to Southport Pointins when I was about 5 years old, so around 1985. I won a talent contest (no idea what my talent was) and was crowned Prince Pointins (true story).

I'm pleased to see my kingdom is as wonderful as I remember