Half term is too short to spend at the airport!

Avoid airport delays, lost luggage and cramped planes by spending the May Half Term at one of Butlins great seaside Resorts, Minehead, Bognor Regis and Skegness. Your holiday starts as soon as you arrive with a break full of live entertainment, TV characters, fun and laughter. Prices start from *£51pp per break including accommodation, all live entertainment and most leisure facilities.

For toddlers there’s Bob the Builder, Angelina Ballerina’s free Dance Academy, mischievous Pingu and Fireman Sam. Channel 5’s popular kids show Milkshake is brought to life at Butlins with all their presenters out meeting their fans as well as favourite characters from the show including Rupert Bear, Harry and Bucket of Dinosaurs, Noddy and Tessie, Fifi and Bumble and Pepper and George getting toddlers singing and dancing as well as laughing at their crazy antics. Captain Pugwash gets up to piraty antics in an exclusive live show with Tom the Cabin boy, Pirate Willy and Cut Throat Jake

For older kids, including ‘big kids’, the sub-tropical Splash Waterworld is always a favourite with water-rides and wave machines, multi-sports courts offering basketball, football and rugby or try something new such as fencing and archery. Race dad, and little sister, in the go-carts and bump into mum on the dodgems or lay down a challenge at ten-pin bowling, kids versus grown-ups!

Hard to please teenagers can cut their own CD at the Groove Room, a fully equipped recording studio, or chill out in the ‘cool people only’ club, The Zone, where kids and adults are banned. Girls Allowed evenings at the Spa at Skegness offers chill out evenings with full use of all the Spa facilities as well as make-up tips and a skin-care workshop whilst more active teenagers at Minehead can have a go at Europe’s highest aerial trekking course or enjoy a Land Rover safari on Exmoor.

There’s plenty for adults as well. The Spa at Skegness is a tranquil haven where you can relax in the 20 metre pool surrounded by sauna, steam room, hydrotherapy pool and Atlantic Showers infused with exotic aromas. Decleor and Gerards beauty treatments and products are available in the beauty salon offering facials, massages and holistic treatments. In the evening enjoy a quiet drink and freshly made snack in the adult only Front Room.

The Yacht Club Café Bar at Minehead welcomes you to enjoy a quiet cappuccino and the Exmore Experience gives you the chance to explore the beautiful Exmoor National Park on horseback or by Land Rover. There is also coasteering, sailing, scuba diving or spend the day fly-fishing.

The sun terrace at Shoreline Hotel, Bognor Regis, is a tranquil area where you can enjoy a pre-dinner cocktail. Golf fanatics can play 18 holes without leaving the Resort at the interactive golf arena, Tee-Off.

* Based on four people sharing a Standard self-catering apartment at Skegness, 25th – 28th May. Prices for the same at Minehead and Bognor Regis are £76pp per break.

To book a Butlins break visit Butlins.com.