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I've got myself a Tom Tom & used for 1st time travelling from Rhyl to Liverpool Empire Theatre to see Tommy Steele in Dr Doolitle (the wife's all time Favourite).

We got there easily & found convenient parking quickly. My wife had to admit when we got home she found it reassuring & thinks it will help stop us arguing.

My son has had the 910 model for a couple of years but doesn't use all the functions.

www.tomtom.com/productadvisorTom Tom product advisor helped me overcome the problem of a vast range to choose from. I'm not too hot on IT but this was a good aid to find what satisfied my needs as well as being easy to use i was able to compare my chosen product 'XL Europe' against the 920T, GO 720 & the GO720T. I was also able to print off the specification to show the sales person exactly what i wanted without dithering.

Halfords price was competitive at the time & they give you a demo - (but its so easy to use i think even i could have set it up) but its nice to know you could allways pop back if you had any difficulty. Staff were helpful & efficient.

I'm chuffed with my purchase & would recomend anyone to consider a sat nav particular when towing. I hope to improve my driving by negotiating rounabouts 1st time instead of regularly having to go go around x2 & some times x3 wben in a non familiar area. The speed camera alerts are very handy, didn't realise there were so many on the Rhyl to Liverpool Route, (Might save me a few bob in fines).

Happy Caravaning , Rob & Chris from sunny Rhyl

All the advice about checking the route before you set off and making sure it takes you the way you want to go is good advice, and once you have done this it gives you plenty of advance notice of what you have to do. I never had a problem navigating but I find it relaxing to know that i will be kept informed about the progress I am making and about possible obstructions along the way.

stupid queswtion but I presume a satnav needs updating as road systems change. How do you do this and does it cost money?

the only stupid question is the one you do not ask.

you can update on line,cost???

http://www.tomtom.com/

Don't rely on your sat nav when you get near your destination , although they are good for major roads , when it comes to the smaller roads they don't allow for the fact your towing .

I was towing along a A road recently and i had the sat nav set to fastest route , because there were some 40mph limits on the A road " it " ( the sat nav ) tried to send me down every B road we came to because they were national speed limits .
I changed the setting in the TT to the shortest route and this gave basically the same results .

So make sure you know what sort of roads your going to be travelling on , and use your common sense , if the road your starting to turn into looks like a country road and your not very close to your destination think twice before driving down it .

atb

Wizard

agree with wizard on this one we went to dale acres CC site in kent this year my sat nav tried to route us down a 6' 6" width road shame our vans 7' wide ,so use it with a very large pinch of common sense and do a route planner first also check with campsite about the roads approaching them

david

michael, thanks for your note regarding updating a satnav and the cost (???)and freferring me to theTomTom website.

I now know why you put the question marks in your reply. I searched the web site and found plenty about opeing an account with TomTom but nothing about how much it woill cost me to update the maps.

Has anyone done this and can anyone give me an idea of the cost? £1.00 or £10.00 or £100.00. The salesman in Halfords whilst offering me a demo and praised the virtues of a satnav totally avioded my question on uprade costs. I think I am too suspicious for my own good at times.

Hi.

I have had a tomtom for 18 months. Once you have registered on their site upgrades are all free. I would however reccomend subscribing to traffic notifications. Cheap at £30 for the year if you do plenty of miles.

Martin.

may help

  http://www.gps-data-team.com/Live_Help/user_qa.php?department=0&current=4&answer=81

I have recently bought a Panasonic CN-GP50N satnav.  It has a 5 inch screen and is a really useful piece of equipment.

Bertie.