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Hi everybody need advice where there is a cheap place to site van for most of the year for a price around 250 , then pay for when we stay, ive heard that this a normal in many places, i would love a site with a pool near a beach etc..

I went away this weekend with the wife and we both agreed that this option is the best for us and for the kids.thanks....

Well around here you would pay £1500 a year for a seasonal pitch on average.  Some sites do storage and then tow you onto a pitch when you wish to go to your van.  There is often a tow on/off fee and then you pay your nightly rate.  This is what we have been doing but next year we are seasonal.

Where do you want to locate yourselves?

Ali

Hi not really sure somewhere close to devon for the seaeast side, also i was chatting to a guy that leaves his for 250 a year then pays site fee's when he wants to stay...

Yes for £250 you won't get a seasonal pitch in Devon. I believe 4 sites have stopped doing it next season and so getting a pitch is nigh on impossible.

To be honest £250 would be cheap for storage too, it is more like £350 - £400. As I said they store your van in a compound and tow it out when you want it.

We use http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=1285 but I believe http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=1301 Webbers Park do storage and they did have vacancies a few weeks ago.

Ali

Quote: Originally posted by Webmaster on 25/9/2007

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Ali, please ensure if you are posting details of a site, please ensure you link to their UKCampsite.co.uk listing, not direct to their website, to enable reviews etc to be read
Many thanks
Ian

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Sorry Webby, was posting quickly as going out the door and forgot to link one of them to the UKCS linking.  Wrist duly slapped!

Ali

I have extensively researched this area of the country for seasonal pitches in recent years and haven't found anywhere where you can leave your van on a pitch for that amount of money Spears.  I am really sorry I can't be of further help but in Devon pitches are at a premium and I can't think of anywhere where you could do that.

Ask your friends the name of the site perhaps?  I am pretty sure they would have been talking about storage on site and a tow on/tow off service.

Ali

you don't mean a place to site your caravan securely that has a campsite also do you??

theres llandow in cowbridge which does storage http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=2512

alongside it is a campsite...storage is approx £350 a year and then you pay to have your hols/weekends there then..not sure if its discounted for storage customers...and i think they tow your van out for you...

thats about the only thing i can think about :O)

Got a bit more time now - here's a few more ideas of sites with storage

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=3263

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=1322

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=1265

Hope that helps. 

Ali

Well Devon is not a lot different with storage costs ranging from about £350 ish upwards at most places.   Then you pay your site fees when you are on a pitch.  Caravan storage is not cheap, if I stored the van where I live it would be £400 a year and that is quite typical in Somerset.

Some people have got great deals on their storage but for most of us it is not a cheap exercise.

Ali