Holidaybreak

Holidaybreak Limited is a company based in London whose main business is the Meininger hotels chain.

By 2007, Holidaybreak held a portfolio of specialist holiday businesses.^[1]

Holidaybreak became a wholly owned subsidiary of former competitor Cox & Kings in July 2011^[2] after a long period of attempting to sell two loss-making parts of its business, Explore and Superbreak.^[3] Three years later, in June 2014, Cox & Kings announced the sale of the camping division of its subsidiary Holidaybreak Ltd to France’s Homair Vacances, for 89 billion Rs (approx. $145 million).^[4][5]

In 2022, following the 2020 collapse of Cox & Kings,^[6] Holidaybreak was ultimately controlled by Ares Management, an American asset management company.^[7] It conducts most of its business through Meininger Hotels Limited, which operates hotels in Germany and several other European countries.^[8]

Holidaybreak operates under multiple brands, however, the majority of their customer volume is through PGL and through their Meininger Division.^[9] Other brands include NST, EST, and Travelplus.

PGL is a children's holiday firm providing educational and residential school trips as well as holiday camps in the United Kingdom.^[10][11]

NST or the NST Travel Group is a British educational travel company specialising in tailor-made tours for schools and colleges.^{[citation needed]}