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Are you nuts??? Just imagine this:

Sale's due to start at local store, (whichever is your favourite), and bargains are really to be one off first come first served! Now if your M/H wasn't there because some smelly yucky folk were away abusing it, how on earth would you manage to camp on the stores doorstep to snap up the bargains???? I ask you!

Then, once you've bagged your bargins, you could set up a snack bar in the car park and make back the money you've just forked out for said bargin!!!!!

Now can you see why you must be nuts? Apart from the fact that if we had a M/H instead of tin tent, I'd be using it to get all the neighbours shopping for 'em too. Who'd need Tesco direct?

I think I'm ready for my medication now doctor....

Hi,

No I couldn't either.

Hi Gaynor,

i was thinking more of them wrecking the gearbox! But you have a point!

Bill

Like Vanman said in his post - people do not respect other peoples property and I myself have first hand knowledge of how careless and destructive people can sometimes be. In my shop we suffer deliberate damage on a daily basis by people. For example: Silly, destructive things like digging their nails in those toy water snakes and bursting them, taking lids off pots of slime and pulling all the slime out, sticky candle floss stained fingers mauling all over cuddly toys clogging up the fur with sticky mess, jumping feet first on top off whoopee cushions and splitting them, over winding music boxes or winding the key backwards until it breaks etc etc etc and these are not always children but adults doing these things and when you ask them to pay for any damaged items you would not believe their responses.  Some of the parents seem to let their kids run wild and I dread to think what they would allow their kids to do in a hired motorhome. Jump all over the upholstery, run in with muddy shoes, play with the flush button on the Thetford - the mind boggles!

Based on my experience I would not trust anyone to look after and respect my motorhome like I do.  Witnessed a woman the other day sat in the back of a brand new 05 reg motorhome puffing away on a cigarette and I thought surely it cannot be her own van! I don't know if it was or not but if it was hers you would think the last thing she would want is to destroy it with nicotine yellow stains and faggy odours! Imagine hiring your van out to a smoker - and it came back stinking of fags and with fag burns!  I would be heartbroken.

From reading all the posts I can understand why anyone hiring out their motorhomes charge so much - but personally I think most of us would never dream of doing it we all love our vnas too much.

Sonesta

Post last edited on 29/08/2005 08:39:53

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SONESTA'S MOTTO IN LIFE ..... LAUGH AND THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH YOU. CRY AND YOU CRY ALONE!

Hi,

No it just isnt worth the worry. Like being burgled by vandals except they pay you.

Bill

Have to agree with everyone else on this one.  We hired a motorhome before we bought ours, and personally I made sure that I kept it exactly how I would want my own kept.  I felt guilty that the guy we hired it from told us not to wash it before we took it back as it had gathered quite a lot of dust on the road.  I made sure the inside was pristine though.  However, I know from experience of staying in static vans that belong to owners rather than fleet vans belonging to holiday parks, that people simply don't care if it's not their own property.  I've found smelly socks, dirty underwear , chewing gum, rubbish, all left in vans I've hired, as well as actual damage to walls, stains on carpets, etc etc.  On one occasion, we stayed in a static van that cost the owner £40,000 to purchase.  We were only the second people to be staying in it as a hire van.  Not long after we had settled in, there was a knock on the door, and a rather brash woman virtually barged her way in, saying she'd vacated the van that morning and that the cleaners had complained about her.  She wanted to see all the things she'd been accused of.  I let her look round and could see for myself the things that were on the list she had in her hand.  She literally went round finding excuses for everything.  Between her and her children, they had burnt two holes in the living room carpet (it was a non-smoking van), stood hot cups on the upholstery in the lounge, causing scorch rings, kicked a hole in the interior side wall of the van, broken the toilet seat, another cigarette burn in the fridge (), deep scratches on the mantlepiece and used an ornamental candle belonging to the owner.  There was spaghetti dried onto the upholstery and flicked up the walls and ceiling, and menstrual blood on the mattress.  She didn't actually deny any of it, but kept saying things like 'kids will be kids' etc.  Aparently she wanted to stay on there a few extra days, but the park threw her out because there had been so many complaints about her rowdy children kicking balls at other caravans and trampling all over people's gardens.  That's enough to make me know that I wouldn't want the likes of someone like that hiring out my Motorhome.

Also, what do you do if you have taken a booking and the van comes back damaged from the previous rental?  You'd have to cancel the second hire and refund the money - probably with compensation - while you got the van repaired.

I'd steer well clear and keep it for yourself.

Sara