Sunparks

Connected villas at Sunparks Kempense Meren, the usual appearance of the villa's at a Sunparks park.

Sunparks is a European Brand of Holiday Villages from Center Parcs Europe. Sunparks runs eight parks: four Belgian Parks, two Dutch Parks and two German Parks. In 2011 Sunparks will take over a third Dutch park from Landal Greenparks.

History

The parkcenter of Sunparks Kempense Meren.

In 1981 Sun International opened the first Park in Oostduinkerke, called Sunclub Groendijk. In 1987 they built a second park in De Haan which would get a covered park centre (based on the idea of Center Parks), so it was suitable for all climatic conditions. From this moment they decided to exploit the parks under the name Sunparks. Sunparks Groendijk was from now on called Sunparks Oostduinkerke and the new park got the name Sunparks De Haan. In 1992 a third park followed in the Ardennes, Sunparks Vielsalm, and because of its success followed a fourth park in 1994, Sunparks Rauwse Meren. The director of Sunparks first wanted to let Sunparks grow to 10 parks, but he didn't succeed because of financial difficulties. In 1997 Sun International was sold, and the Sunparks brand was taken over by Mark Vanmoerkerke. In 2006 Roompot Holidays went into negotiations with Sunparks, to buy the brand, but they didn't succeed and after all Pierre et Vacances (the owner of Center Parcs Europe) bought the Sunparks brand in 2007. On 13 November 2008 Center Parks Europe announced that they would continue with a two-brand-strategy: Center Parcs and Sunparks. This was an easy decision because Sunparks was inspired on Center Parcs. Center Parcs would contain the 5 star parks, and Sunparks would contain the 3 and 4 star parks. This meant that since 29 January 2009 the parks Loohorst, Zandvoort, Heilbachsee and Butjardinger Küste would be rebranded as Sunparks parks. At the beginning of 2011 the company decided to rename most of the SUnparks back into Center Parcs. Only three Parks in Belgium remained under the brand Sunparks.[1]

All Resorts

Sight on the parkcenter from the other side of the Rauwse lake at Sunparks Kempense Meren.
Cottage at a roundabout, near the reception of Sunparks Kempense Meren.
Country Resort City / Village Region/County Year opened Added to portfolio Old name
 Belgium Sunparks Oostduinkerke aan zee Oostduinkerke West Flanders 1981- Sunparks Oostduinkerke
 Belgium Sunparks De Haan aan zee De Haan West Flanders 1989- De Haan
 Belgium Sunparks Ardennen Vielsalm Ardennes 1992- Sunparks Vielsalm
 Belgium Sunparks Kempense Meren Mol Antwerpen 1994- Sunparks Mol
 Netherlands Sunparks Limburgse Peel America Limburg 19802009Center Parcs Park Loohorst
 Netherlands Sunparks Zandvoort aan zee Zandvoort North Holland 19892009Center Parcs Park Zandvoort
 Netherlands Sunparks Sandur Drenthe Emmen Drenthe 19992011Landal parc Sandur
 Germany Sunparks Eifel Gunderath Rhineland-Palatinate 19792009Center Parcs Park Heilbachsee
 Germany Sunparks Nordsee Küste Tossens Lower Saxony 19922009Center Parcs Butjadinger Küste
Parks in development
 Germany Sunparks Bostalsee Bostalsee Saarland (2011)--

Expansion

Sunparks is developing the third German park in Bostalsee which will be called Sunparks Bostalsee. It's expected that the new park was scheduled to open in 2011.

At 23 November 2009 Sunparks announced that Landal Parc Sandur will be taken over in 2011. From then on the park will continue as Sunparks Sandur Drenthe.

Currently Sunparks is looking near Bellewaerde for the fifth Belgian Sunparks park. Also Sunparks is looking for some other sites in The Netherlands and in Germany.

External links

On Sunparks website it shows that they have recently taken over sites in France too.

References

  1. ↑ www.ferienparks-weltweit.de
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