Static vs touring? Your opinions?
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I had next door neighbours as a kid who owned a static caravan in North Wales. They were away nearly every weekend (and I do mean nearly every one. Apart from the odd Christmas holidays, I never saw their kids and dogs home at the weekend)
I asked my mum about it recently and she said they had told her they had a static caravan plus a beach hut near a deserted Welsh beach which they used like a holiday home.
All their gear, (barbecue, chairs, generator etc.) was kept locked up in the hut and caravan during the week and they just used to pack up their estate car on Friday evenings after the kids were back from school and come back late Sunday afternoons. According to the conversations my mum had wife the next door wife, these were the best holidays they had.
Apart from the safety aspect of leaving valuables behind in a beach hut and static van, can anyone else explain what would be the advantage of this? Surely the idea of a caravan holiday is that you can travel all over the country and Europe with it and see different places?
The reason why I'm asking is I'm considering hiring a caravan for holiday next year. I was on a narrowboat holiday with my family two years ago and the main advantage is that we were all together during the day and evenings rather than everyone in separate rooms during holiday cottage or hotel room holidays.
The static caravan seems to be the easiest option but I like the idea of taking a touring caravan to a few sites to enable me to move in case I don't like a particular site.
Your opinions?
I asked my mum about it recently and she said they had told her they had a static caravan plus a beach hut near a deserted Welsh beach which they used like a holiday home.
All their gear, (barbecue, chairs, generator etc.) was kept locked up in the hut and caravan during the week and they just used to pack up their estate car on Friday evenings after the kids were back from school and come back late Sunday afternoons. According to the conversations my mum had wife the next door wife, these were the best holidays they had.
Apart from the safety aspect of leaving valuables behind in a beach hut and static van, can anyone else explain what would be the advantage of this? Surely the idea of a caravan holiday is that you can travel all over the country and Europe with it and see different places?
The reason why I'm asking is I'm considering hiring a caravan for holiday next year. I was on a narrowboat holiday with my family two years ago and the main advantage is that we were all together during the day and evenings rather than everyone in separate rooms during holiday cottage or hotel room holidays.
The static caravan seems to be the easiest option but I like the idea of taking a touring caravan to a few sites to enable me to move in case I don't like a particular site.
Your opinions?
I had a similar dilemma , a motorhome ticked all the boxes for lots of easy weekend getaways.We go somewhere at least 3 weekends a month all year round.Generally within an hour or so of home. Our couple of favorite sites cost jut £14 a day with electric hook up. Thats a weekend away for less than a cost of a pizza eat should we stay home. £28 fri/sunday. On site set up involves just plugging in a power lead and the reverse to leave.
Busterbulldog said:
I had a similar dilemma , a motorhome ticked all the boxes for lots of easy weekend getaways.We go somewhere at least 3 weekends a month all year round.Generally within an hour or so of home. Our couple of favorite sites cost jut £14 a day with electric hook up. Thats a weekend away for less than a cost of a pizza eat should we stay home. £28 fri/sunday. On site set up involves just plugging in a power lead and the reverse to leave.
Same with us. We bought a cheap(ish) motorhome, ran it for 6mths to see if we liked it then bought a newer one after debating whether to go static or not.Every Christmas day we would drive to the beach (10mls from us), text friends and family to join us and have hot mince pies and mulled wine etc on the sea front
It was also handy if you went to friends for a night out, could take the van and hoot it up to their leccy and have your own space to retreat to at the end of the night. Ours was kept on our drive which also gave us extra space when we had more than one lot of friends staying over.
As we live in Devon we never had to drive far to be somewhere lovely so it got used loads apart from the last year where it got used 2-3 times. Sadly at that point we decided it was better to sell it, still miss it though
We had friends with a motorhome at the same time, used to go away together a lot, they came from a touring caravan. After selling their motorhome they bought a boat, then sold that and now have a static which they use quite a bit over the warmer months. We prefer having the flexibility and freedom of a motorhome, we'll have another one day.
Edited by LordHaveMurci on Sunday 7th December 11:35
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