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 via mobile 15/9/2024 at 9:42am
Location: Ayrshire
Outfit: Auto-Sleeper MHs
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Quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Bonce on 15/9/2024
Not had caravans for quite as long, but no way would I have a motorhome. Where do you plan to keep it? Two lots of tax and insurance, assuming you also have a car. If no car, then you have to use public transport from sites, and there is not always a handy bus.
What puts us off getting a new MH now is the horrendous road tax for the first few years.
We keep our MH where some people keep their caravan: outside the house. It’s pretty much the same length as the Škoda, so parking in towns isn’t a problem. We unplug & leave the site for the day if there’s no local bus, but our usual pattern is - leisurely drive to site A via several points of interest (garden, castle, beach or forest for dog walk, round of golf etc), stay 2-3 nights & walk or bus locally, then move on to site B via POIs, in a big circuit back to home. The beauty of a MH is you drive up, plug in & that’s it - 10 minutes after you arrive, you’ve got the tea or G&T to hand.
Thankfully MH or caravan or TT or tent - there’s something to suit everyone, it might change as circumstances change.
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2024 = 20 sites / 41 nights. 2023 = 9/23. 2022 = 13/35. 2021 = 11/29. 2020 = 4/20. 2019 = 13/35. 2018 = 20/33. 2017 = 10/22. 2016 = 19/33. 2015 = 15 sites / 27 nights. Didn't count 1976 to 2014.
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15/9/2024 at 10:36am
Location: East Herts
Outfit: 1992 Elddis Wisp 450CT + X Trail
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Horses for courses as they say. We couldn't afford even the cheapest of motorhomes, but if we could I'm not sure that we would have one. We have looked into it. The conclusion we came to was that if you like to move on every couple of days then a motorhome is probably the better bet, but if you like to stay on a site for a week or more then a caravan is better. Once set up on a site, if we want to go out we just jump in the car and go. No messing around stowing things so that they don't fly around and we know the car fits in any normal parking bay. It also goes under any height barriers on car parks etc.
The other issue is that if you have a motorhome that is large enough to be comfortable, we are both in our 70s, it would be far too big for everyday running around back home. We would need another vehicle, which would mean two lots of tax and insurance. We can keep our caravan, which is only quite small but plenty big enough, at the front of the house along with the car, but a large enough motorhome would need to go into storage, and that is very expensive around here as well as being very difficult to find.
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Best Regards,
Colin
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