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We're just about to put ours into storage in France - which is absolutely miles from home!  We mainly caravan in France and now our van is ten years old it may start to deteriorate in British weather, so it's going into indoor storage in a part of France we love.  It's going to cost £90 less than we currently pay, we'll save on ferry costs, and on fuel and tolls driving down through France, and the storage site will tow it to a site of your choice (for an additional fee) - so we could even fly down for the odd weekend away.

We're starting to organise proper lists of everything which goes in the van - one of the things which will stay there in the van, and others of things which have to be taken (certainly for longer holidays).  We're going to get a set of those cheap plastic sets of drawers to put 'removeable' items in, and then they can just be unloaded into the awning and into the van.

However, we think it's going to be worth it but will just take out an initial one year contract so we can see how things work out.

It takes us an hour to get to our storage but its usualy on the way to where we are going so we have two hour less towing.We keep the van more or less ready to go but we do have to remember to sort things like gas bottles and battery.

If we don't use the van for a while i have a trip to the storage on the bike to make sure everything is all ok.

Andy  

At the moment we tour and haven't really found a site that we want to return to again and again.  But if we found a site that we wanted to go back to then we'd consider a seasonal pitch. 

I'd guess that you'd have to organise yourself as if you were going to a hired accomodation.  We are lucky in that we can store our 'van at home but i still have stuff that is just for the 'van like pots and pans, bedding, cutlery and wash stuff.  At the moment i wash the bedding and put it back in the 'van for next time so that all i have to "pack" is our clothes but if it was stored then i'd have to pack all that stuff just as if i were going away on holiday to hired accomodation.  It wouldn't be that hard to do

As you can see we tour Cornwall mainly and we store in Truro which is about 240 miles from home in Birmingham. Our thoughts were similar to TheClampits which was keep it where it will be used most. We cant store at home so we would have to pay to store somewhere so that might as well be down in Cornwall.

It does mean that we have to be very organised and its a pain if we have to bring the awning home to dry it, but generally it works well. I also have to say that the storage faccilities are good and the owners are very receptive to our needs .

Quote: Originally posted by Theclampits on 27/9/2009

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Does anyone on here store their caravan miles away from home as we may(hope we have a seasonal).
We are looking to store ours 100 miles away from our house.
What we would like to know is what are the gains and the pitfalls to doing this..

Many thanks

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HI Theclampets, I have been trying to contact you via another post about you being alone on a field, seasonal pitch.

I tryed to use your email address you put on that post but it comes back as no such email address.

We may be int in joining you on the site, but need more info plse.

Gwil