page_title: Center Parcs UK and Ireland
section_title: Locations
hierarchical_section_title: Center Parcs UK and Ireland / Locations
caption_attribution_description: English: The Subtropical Swimming Paradise, main pool, located in Center Parcs Elveden Forest in Suffolk, England. Picture by Chris Bayley.
context_page_description: Center Parcs UK and Ireland is a short-break holiday company that operates six holiday villages in the United Kingdom and Ireland, with each covering about 400 acres of woodland. The company's first village opened at Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, in 1987 and its sixth, at Longford Forest, Ireland, opened in 2019.
  A similar enterprise operates in continental Europe, also under the name Center Parcs, however the two companies have been separately owned since 2001. Center Parcs UK marked its 30th anniversary year in 2017.
context_section_description: Center Parcs has short-break holiday villages in five locations in the UK, with a sixth in Ireland which opened in 2019. Each village covers around 400 acres (1.6 km²) of woodland, with a standard set of facilities, and have around 97% occupancy annually.
  No personal cars are allowed into the villages except on arrival and departure days.
caption: Center Parcs is widely known for its Subtropical Swimming Paradise
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