Haven Adverts

Two adverts for Haven Holidays, from around 1983. 


The first advert features Bobby coming into the room wearing a sombrero and asking where they are going on holiday. Tommy extols the virtues of Haven’s 15 holiday parks. 

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Bobby: Right, Tommy, where are we going this summer, eh? Y Viva Espana.

Tommy: Forget it.

Bobby: What about this? (Through megaphone) Wakey, wakey, campers.

Tommy: Are we heck, we’re going here.

Bobby: Haven holidays, superb chalets and caravans on lively parks or quiet villages, entertainment. Rock on Tommy, that’ll do for me, book it, book, it

Tommy: Which one?

Bobby: Which one?

Tommy: Yeah. There are 15 around England and Wales.

Bobby: We’re only going away for two weeks.

Voiceover: Haven Holidays. Just what you’ve been looking for.

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The second advert has Tommy giving the benefits of a Haven holiday while Bobby keeps interrupting to give his own views.

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Tommy: If you’re looking for a change from the usual holiday…

Bobby: …and here’s something that’s really different.

Tommy: Haven holidays

Bobby: There’s fifteen of them.

Tommy: Just keep quiet. Superb chalets and caravans on big parks or small villages deep in the countryside

Bobby: Baa, baa

Tommy: Or by the seaside.

Bobby: Squalk, squalk.

Tommy: What’s that?

Bobby: It’s a seagull.

Tommy: Haven holidays.

Bobby: It’s just what you’ve been looking for.

Tommy:  You ruined it now.

Bobby: I haven’t. I haven’t. I haven’t. It were good, that.

Voiceover: Haven Holidays, just what you’ve been looking for.

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