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Hi all, we would like your opinions on seasonal pitches & storage on sites regarding how far you travel or would be willing to travel for your holidays. So, as most of you know there are not many seasonal pitches available (long waiting lists) or they are very exspensive so the other option for many of us who cant/wont tow is storage on a caravan site that you would like to stay on. How far do you travel/or would be willing to travel too to end up in an area that you know that you & your family would enjoy? Our situation is maybe once a month for long weekends through the cooler months & longer stays in the summer season when the children are off from school. We live just outside Cardiff & are looking to put our caravan in Tenby, which we both think is a lovely place but with it being place that we have visited many many times over the years via car trips & family that live close wonder if we would be better going elsewhere. We are going to store Bertha at the site in Pembrokeshire this year but wonder what all you lovely people do on here that are not able to tow.  We have in mind the Dorset area as last year we all fell in love with Poole etc but also fancy Lyme Regis & even Ilfracombe but is it worth the extra travelling?

for Lyme Regis etc try Thornleigh at Horton they have limited storage but dont know what rates are. owners live on site and house is at entrance so as secure as can be.

see reviews on here.

Its each to their own about traveling time but I think around an hour is about right.  We are putting ours in storage on a C&CC site in Shropshie we can do it in 50mins with a tail wind.  It was taking us that to go and get the van from storage and go to our local site (now closed except for a few weekends) so its a no brainer for us.

If you want to go to Ilfracombe area try Newberry Valley site at Combe Martin, brilliant site.

Hope you get sorted.

We live in Leeds, and put our van in Aviemore, Scotland for the winter. Probably one of the best decisions we made: on average 1.5 visits per month, Hogmanay in Scotland, fantastic scenery, and an obligation to go, which can overcome the pressure to work. (We have our own business)

The drive is 6 hours typicaly, and we run it straight after school, or 5 am in the morning. Everyone loves the adventure, but he 6 hour journey is a tad expensive...in the Discovery.

maybe not for everyone, but a wonderful opportunity to have our own "ski-chalet".

Strax

Quote: Originally posted by rushallmanor on 07/3/2011

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I can't understand why you would buy a tourer if you don't want to tour. If you want to stay in one place then why not buy a static.

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