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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
05/9/2018 at 2:41pm
Location: West - North Yorkshire
Outfit: Swift Speedbird 490 Mondeo Estate
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Quote: Originally posted by Robbie on 05/9/2018
Be very careful about siting a static in France, particularly if they are owned by Brits.
I bought a new static and had it in the Lot. Site fees kept going up and other means of extracting money were found. You were not allowed to sell the caravan on site but had to remove it, otherwise the site owner sold it. I paid £41,000 for my caravan in 2005, this included decking etc. I sold it in 2010 and she only paid me £10,000.
The latest scam was not allowing you to install a satellite dish, you had to pay the site owner to install it. Many owners were very dissatisfied and there was a huge turnover. She now relies on second=hand sales and has not sold a new caravan since about 2012.
I bet that's the same site our friends were interested in!
Did you meet the owners at the Caravan Show?
There are some good sites, though, with decent and responsible owners and decent terms and conditions, and we've looked into it before, but I don't know the areas the OP is interested in.
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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
01/2/2019 at 3:03pm
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Joanna, if it helps -
we've done it twice now on the same site in France on the Vendee - shipped a UK van to the site - last one cost us 16k to buy and ship ( 3 bed, central heating pitched roof etc less than 2 years old) 1500 euros for the site to install it and 2300 euros per year fees, fees rise around 30 euros per year,
it cost us 12.5k to get our first van over. kept it there for 8 or 9 nine years then sold it on site for 18.5k - we spent around 8k on it, decking, shed, improvements etc so got back nearly as much as it had cost us (other then site fees of course)- try getting that in the UK
our new van is worth around 24k going off recent sold prices on site.
if you already own your own van then you could ship it for around 3k - pay site fees of around 2500 euros and it would be worth at least 10k on the site we are on.
as others have pointed out though, you NEED to check the site first, spend some time there and chat to others on site. there are around 8 british families and 2 irish on our site of around 150 mobile homes, other sites have different proportions. check re restrictions on age of vans (there aren't any on our site) and if you have to sell through the site, in our case you don't have to do anything other than tell the site owner, not even a fee for transferring title !!
to give you an idea of other costs - insurance was around 170 euros, electric came to around 50 euros (no mark up allowed for the site) and gas use was about 80 euros - we used the van for about 4 months in total
unfortunately its too far to use just for a weekend !
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