Center Parcs

CENTER PARCS has rolled back on plans to make guests at its villages leave on Monday 19 September...

"We have however, reviewed our position regarding the very small number of guests who are not due to depart on Monday, and we will be allowing them to stay on our villages rather than having to leave and return on Tuesday." Guests who were due to arrive on that date were informed that they should not travel, but that the villages will be ready to open to guests again on Tuesday at 10am. Those due to arrive on Monday, however, will still not be able to check in until 10am on Tuesday.

Center Parcs has come under fire after announcing it will close on Queen Elizabeth's funeral. The 96-year-old monarch will be laid to rest on September 19th in ...

You've also taken away many people's excitement and tarnished their holidays." Many businesses and even hospitals are closing on the day. All impacted guests will receive an email from us today."

The company was inundated with complaints and jokes online after it said that its five UK parks would close for 24 hours from 10am on Monday, September 19.

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The Nottinghamshire-based company initially announced its holiday villages would be closing for the bank holiday on Monday, September 19 - meaning guests booked ...

A Center Parcs spokesperson said: "The vast majority of our guests are either due to arrive or depart on Monday 19th September. The villages will still remain closed on Monday, and we will be offering a discount for the lack of facilities available on that day." "I think this is the right decision, those arriving on Monday come on Tuesday and those already there stay but with no facilities open!" [Nottinghamshire Live](https://www.nottinghampost.com/) readers have expressed their relief after Center Parcs reversed its decision to kick guests out on the day of the Queen's funeral. Too late to back pedal." Reacting to the news on Facebook, Laura Musson said it was the right decision.

Twitter is describing the latest response as creating a 'hostage situation' with holidaymakers initially told they would be unable to set foot outside their ...

"The vast majority of our guests are either due to arrive or depart on Monday September 19. "Not everybody's a royalist, not everybody wants to watch." We have contacted all the guests due to arrive on Monday September 19 and offered them a number of different options. Glynis Meloy, 68, from St Austell in Cornwall, is booked to stay for a week at Longleat Forest in Wiltshire in a group of six people at a cost of £1,800 and had expressed concerns about how they would spend the day if asked to leave. This provoked a string of puzzled reactions with Stickocelery saying: "Thanks Amy, will guests be shot on sight if they leave their lodgings or will there be some sort of warning? Holiday company Center Parcs, which has been heavily criticised when they told customers they were booting them off the sites on Monday out of 'respect' to the Queen, initially told people they can remain - but must stay inside their lodge.

Families had planned far in advance for Center Parcs holidays before a closure was announced for the Queen's funeral (Picture: Laura Mago/Francesca ...

Francesca, 32, from Northamptonshire, said: ‘I totally get that it’s the Queen’s funeral and a bank holiday but we didn’t expect the whole site to be shut with less than a week’s notice. They were due to check in between Monday and Friday for four nights at Woburn Forest in Bedfordshire. ‘The funeral is at 11am and they don’t allow you into the lodge until 4pm, so I don’t see why they can’t continue as normal. ‘We should have had a four-day break and therefore a 25% to 33% reduction would be appropriate. ‘The guests should be given the decision on what’s best for our families before being hit financially. ‘The villages will still remain closed on Monday and we will be offering a discount for the lack of facilities available on that day.’ ‘We’ve had an email offering a 15% refund which only amounts to £203 off the entire booking. ‘We have, however, reviewed our position regarding the very small number of guests who are not due to depart on Monday and we will be allowing them to stay on our villages rather than having to leave and return on Tuesday. [state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II ](https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/12/police-to-expect-the-unexpected-as-they-guard-the-queens-funeral-17358143/)and for Monday to be a bank holiday was announced on Saturday. ‘We will still miss the birthday meal we booked at 5.30pm on Monday as well as the evening and I will have to leave at 5pm on Sunday to get my one-year-old home as it will be carnage trying to leave in the morning. [ live blog](https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/08/queens-health-latest-concerns-royal-family-gather-head-to-balmoral-16453313/) for the latest updates, and sign Metro.co.uk's [book of condolence to Her Majesty](https://metro.co.uk/queen-elizabeth-ii-dead-tributes-condolence-book/) here. They will need to leave on Sunday because it will be harder to get away on Monday with traffic and their young children’s needs and the fact the resort and restaurant will be closed the following day.

Center Parcs has gone back on its decision to turf holidaymakers out of its resorts on the day of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral.

Facilities on-site, including restaurants, will still remain closed on Monday. Can we arrive earlier on the Tuesday so we can actually get our holiday?” We hope our guests will understand our decision to support our Queen on her final journey.” [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. We’ve had our holiday booked for over six months. “We have however, reviewed our position regarding the very small number of guests who are not due to depart on Monday, and we will be allowing them to stay on our villages rather than having to leave and return on Tuesday.” Center Parcs said in a statement on Tuesday evening: “The vast majority of our guests are either due to arrive or depart on Monday 19 September. In response, Center Parcs made a partial U-turn and said that customers already staying at the resort on Monday will be able to stay in their lodges. One would-be guest said she was “f****** livid” over the decision, adding: “I’ve been having some of the worst weeks in work that I’ve ever had and been so excited to get to CP on Monday.” In a statement, Center Parcs said it had made the decision to close “as a mark of respect and to allow as many of our colleagues as possible to be part of this historic moment ... On Tuesday evening (13 September), the UK holiday parks group announced a reversal of its previous decision to turf holidaymakers out of its resorts for the duration of Monday so its staff could be “part of this historic moment”.

The first Center Parcs site in the UK was built in Sherwood Forest, followed by Elveden Forest two years later and Center Parcs Longleat Forest six years after ...

[featured in the news headlines](https://www.nottinghampost.com/whats-on/center-parcs-guests-furious-villages-7580347) when the company announced that guests would have to leave their accommodation during a planned closure to mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. After owning the firm for nine years, TBG sold the firm to Brookfield Property Partners in 2015. The website also states: "Whilst a lot may have changed since 1968, the underlying ethos of the business has remained the same. It was subsequently bought by a private equity firm called The Blackstone Group in 2006. However, the company's origins lie with founder and Dutch businessman Piet Derksen, who opened a holiday village called Sporthuis Centrum at De Lommerbergen, near Reuver in The Netherlands, in 1968. [Center Parcs](https://www.nottinghampost.com/all-about/center-parcs) has been operating in the UK since 1987. It also operates a site in Ireland and has identified a seventh potential location in West Sussex. The provider is popular, and many will know someone who has attended one of their sites. [company's corporate history](https://corporate.centerparcs.co.uk/about-us/history.html#:~:text=In%202015%2C%20after%20nine%20years,Parcs%20Longford%20Forest%20in%202017.), Center Parcs UK was bought by Deutsche Bank Capital Partners before the business was floated on the stock market in 2003. [has now been reversed](https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/right-decision-center-parcs-makes-7583101), and guests will be emailed about their options during the closure. The company [said in a statement](https://www.centerparcs.co.uk/village-news/general-news.html), "We hope our guests will understand our decision to support our Queen on her final journey." [Sherwood Forest](https://www.nottinghampost.com/all-about/sherwood-forest) (Nottinghamshire), Woburn Forest (Bedfordshire), and Whinfell Forest (Cumbria).

Angry holidaymakers took to social media to complain after the holiday firm announced that guests would have to leave its five UK parks on Monday.

You're discounting for those that have a delayed arrival date but what about those of us who have lost the last day of their holiday?!" They said: "We recognise leaving the village for one night is an inconvenience, we have listened and made the decision to allow guests to remain on village on Monday, however, the village will still be closed, so guests will need to remain in their lodges." All impacted guests will receive an email from us today. However, Center Parcs has since backtracked and said the guests will not be forced to leave the villages. Following on from that, a second Tweet read: "Guests who were due to arrive on Monday 19 September should not travel, we will reopen on Tuesday 20 September to welcome guests. [holiday](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/all-about/holidays) firm Center Parcs has made a U-turn on its decision to close their sites on the day of the [Queen's](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/all-about/the-queen) funeral, which would have forced guests to leave.

Guests already on holiday can now stay on site but will not be able to use facilities.

"This decision was taken as a mark of respect and to allow as many of our colleagues as possible to be part of this historic moment." "But people book to stay at Center Parcs a year in advance and pay quite a lot of money to go." Center Parcs told some guests on Twitter they would need to "remain in their lodges" on Monday, leading some people to compare the sites to prisons. "We're not going to have another holiday for ages now because of the cost of living going up." Center Parcs has said it is closing its villages "as a mark of respect and to allow as many of our colleagues as possible to be part of this historic moment". Guests already on holiday will now be able to stay, but people due to arrive on Monday will not be able to start their holidays until the following day.