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...id love to know who came up with the ridiculas idea that caravnning is cheap??? im hearing so much in the press that its the ideal recession beating way to go on holiday, crikey i wish!! in the three years we've caravanned we've got to have spent pushing 30k inc van in insurance, site fees must have extras, it is in no way a cheap way to holiday!!! could have spent 4 weeks a year in the bahamas for that!! but you know what i wouldnt have it any other way!! and everything for the van seems so expensive this year,

like a pair of numpties we never drained the system over christmas and the freeze cracked the plastic thread on the tap £50 blooming quid its just cost for a new tap!!! 50 quid!!! lesson learnt though!!! but then while we were in the shop had to have one of those massive moon chairs and a pair rechargable dehumidfiers!! £ 120 later!!

carravanning cheap my blooming a#%e!!!!

Doesn't have to be £30k.  We paid less than £3k for our 1997 van including everything in it and a full awning and come the end of this season we won't have spent more than £7k including 2 seasons on a seasonal pitch.

We've spent our holidays there plus lots of weekends, Easter and Bank holidays etc so for us it has been a sensible purchase.

Edited to say that is over a 3 1/2 year period.

Ali

even when we had a small van it was still a lot!

my point is even at 7k its still not a cheap way to holiday in the way the press are making it out to be, there are a lot of hidden costs that when some new vanners start they may not realize, which in my opinion can put a few more dangerous vans on the road, as things like servicing, new tyres, gas safety etc which all cost extra may get put on the wayside, there are people out there who may see press reports think oo lets get a caravan and think its as easy and cheap as that, when its not

 ranting coz of how much the tap cost me today aswell!

site fees are a lot cheaper, thats why we bought a van in the first place because a site in cornwall wanted nearly a grand for ten days in a static in school hols and wewere like crikey we could get a caravan for that so thats where it all started for us,

 i worked out inc fuel, insurance, servicing, extras, van storage, cost of van, awning, gas,etc

hugs for us it is sooo expensive to go anywhere as i have 4 kids lol

Our last static caravan holiday in august was 1, 300 in Cornwall for  a family of 2 adults and 2 children. After that holiday, we looked into touring vans and brought one the following year.

30k inc van in insurance, site fees must have extras, it is in no way a cheap way to holiday!!! could have spent 4 weeks a year in the bahamas for that!!

30K for 4 weeks in the bahamas ?? and your complaining about UK prices,most people dont earn that in two years,yet still love this way of holidaying.

our van is costing £2000 storage for a year £250 site fee for a 10 days mid summer free ( tesco points paid for) holiday over seas for all six of us for same week £4066 in my books thats £1800 less sounds good to me and the van can be used again and again

you can make it as cheap or expensive as you want,

our van was only £335.55 its not got blow air heating under seats but its got a fan heater,running water and 2 lovely awnings we are all having the same holidays though aren't we

well i have a van and i love it cheap oh yessss i just returned from 2 weeks in florida may i hasten to add booked before we bought our van!!!!!

all in florida 2 weeks 7k so that i would say makes my 15k including new van storage site fees insurance new awning etc sound ok when you remove the 11k for the new van i will not be spending this year and iam sure that we spent a hell of a lot more than 14 days in our van may be not quiet as good as seeing mickey mouse but we still enjoy it and have the freedom to hitch up and go!!!!!!! cant just do that to florida