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14/8/2013 at 2:44pm
Location: Solihull
Outfit: Touring Caravan
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I can only talk from my experience, i have just moved from camping to touring. We used to tow a trailer with all of our camping gear in, so i had a little towing experience and was confident i would be ok with a tourer.
We looked extensively into what to buy, firstly looking at the 2nd hand market. We decided we wanted a twin axle, i thought that would be more stable to tow, and i believe i was right on that one. We decided on the layout we wanted then we started looking on line. We went to Raymond James in Nuneaton who had several examples of what we wanted to look at. We ended up buying a brand new, last years model which was heavily discounted instead of buying 2nd hand. The saving was so good it just made sense to us.
So we have had our van for over 6 months now, we have holidayed in it 7 times already, from a few days over a weekend to a full week in cornwall. We are going to Cornwall again in a couple of weeks, we absolutely love it. The kids love it too.
I think it really is down to you, how confident are you about towing? If you are quite confident then i am pretty sure, you will love it. You are campers at heart and this is the next step. If you do go ahead and buy a £2,000.00 unit, i would say, in no time at all you will be back at the dealers upgrading your caravan to one which you had wished you had bought from the start.
Good luck anyway, this is only my opinion, i am sure other people on here might disagree, but there you go we are all different.
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14/8/2013 at 7:07pm
Location: South Yorkshire
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Haha, I think the advice you are getting is dangerous......... And I'm going to add to it! We bought our first van from a friend last October for £700. It was wonderful, dry, with a full awning.... Everything we could have wished for, apart from the fact it wasn't quite big enough only being a 4 berth for 5 of us. We decided we would budget 9k ish. We looked around and were quite disappointed at what was about for the money. We looked at a 6 berth Adria for 13k brand new and decided on one of those. We did end up paying an extra 1K for a dealer special though as it included carpets, satellite system, spare wheel, upgraded ALKO hitch and a motor mover. Best thing we ever did!!! We picked it up on last day of may and by the end of August we will have done 24 nights in it. I'd have a really good look round and see what there is in both your budgets. I had no towing experience whatsoever, had to take the trailer test with a little trailer towed by an Audi a1, I'm now towing a 24ft van and actually enjoy it, it's part of the holiday :0) sorry if all the advice you receive ends up costing you more ;0) we still tell our friend off for selling us our first van......... He's cost us a lot of money getting us hooked!! :0)
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