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Josh Layton

Family walks out of Pontins after 'finding discarded boxer shorts in filthy chalet'

A family walked out of their Pontins’ Camber Sands Holiday Park after claiming they found a discarded pair of boxer shorts in their 'filthy' chalet.

Michael Beirne, from Keresley, West Midlands, shot a video that reveals the squalid conditions at the park in East Sussex.

Dad-of-two Beirne's video showed bird mess on a window, a dirty light switch and a tatty bin without a lid.

The 24-year-old, his girlfriend, and their two young children should have been there three-day weekend break starting on Friday, July 31.

But the family walked out of the chalet without staying the night after checking in, reports CoventryLive.

They went to complain but found a queue to speak to the manager "going out of the door" so they handed back their keys to room 566 in block 57 and went to stay with his aunt, Christine, who was at a caravan park nearby in Camber Sands on the East Sussex coast.

Christine, 35, an NHS worker also from Keresley, said: "From the moment they walked in they could see how disgusting and dirty it was.

The drawers and furniture were broken, which would have been dangerous with a two-and-a-half-year-old and a four-month-old walking around.

Michael took a video of his chalet before walking out with his family (BPM Media)

One of the drawing cabinets was not even screwed into the wall because the bracket was loose.

"They went to speak to the manager but the queue was going out of the door, so they handed the keys back and left to stay with me at a caravan park down the road.”

In his video, Michael goes from room to room pointing our grim marks on furniture, floors and walls.

Michael says he found problems throughout the chalet (BPM Media)
A loose fitting in the room as shown on Michael's video (BPM Media)

In a bedroom draw he finds a pair of discarded boxer shorts.

Furniture in the video is shown to be damaged, curtains dirty and even parts of a floor missing. 

The paint on window sills is shown to be cracked with Michael commenting: "All that would need, it would take a five minute lick of gloss, you'd probably get an extra tenner out of the room doing that."

Michael, who paid £120 for the break, is complaining via email instead.

He said: "Even if I was homeless I wouldn't live there, I would rather be on the streets. I asked someone to come out and they said 'yes, yes, yes' but they just walked off, they didn't even ask for my door number."

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