Minehead's MP has called for extra police to be put on the streets to control the behaviour of people attending adults-only week-ends at Butlin's.
Ian Liddell-Grainger says he is writing to Avon and Somerset police asking for additional manpower after mounting numbers of complaints about hooliganism and drunkenness.
And he has asked any member of the public witnessing unacceptable behaviour to contact the police immediately.
Mr Liddell-Grainger, the Conservative MP for Bridgwater and West Somerset, has stepped in amid growing local anger about the behaviour of week-end guests who local people say are turning the town centre into a no-go area on Saturdays.
The special weekends attract thousands to Butlin's, many of them for stag and hen parties. But the celebrations inevitably spill out into town centre pubs.
Mr Liddell-Grainger said: "I have had reports of brawling, public nudity, urinating in public, and of people having to be carried back to Butlin's dead drunk in the middle of the afternoon.
"There seems to be complete disregard for - and no enforcement of - the alcohol-free zones West Somerset District Council has set up, including the one on the beach.
"The level of rowdiness is quite intimidating: mothers are scared to allow their children into the town centre at times like this because the atmosphere is so threatening."
Mr Liddell-Grainger said Butlin's was a major employer and local traders welcomed the business the 9,000- capacity resort brought to the town.
"But at the moment the town is paying a very high price for it," he said.
"Minehead is essentially a family resort but it is no place for families while there are hundreds of people milling around and displaying behaviour which goes well beyond acceptable limits.
"Butlin's would deploy its own security staff in the town but there is a legal obstacle to that.
"What we need are more police and PCSOs on the streets - and greater use of CCTV to catch the worst offenders. We also need local people to call the police the moment they see anything."
Mr Liddell-Grainger said he would be spending the whole of the next adults-only week-end in the town to see for himself how public behaviour was being controlled.
"No-one wants to stop people enjoying themselves but when levels of behaviour are so appallingly low that they impinge on the enjoyment of others then clearly something has to be done," he said.