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[plym ian]

radical thought this, but what about a hotel room? You don't need to drive to your destination at 55mph getting crappy mpg. You can actually enjoy the drive down & not hold anyone up in the process!

You don't have to make your bed, empty your own shite, cook your own dinner, clean up after your self.

Save yourself a bunch of cash too 

i get that anyway probably due to having 2 cyclinders missing

but thanks for all your feed back gave me something to think about

[hercules]

radical thought this, but what about a hotel room? You don't need to drive to your destination at 55mph getting crappy mpg. You can actually enjoy the drive down & not hold anyone up in the process!

You don't have to make your bed, empty your own shite, cook your own dinner, clean up after your self.

Save yourself a bunch of cash too 

we dont all get paid lots of cash for sitting around watching telly and eating ice creams

[tunnie]

radical thought this, but what about a hotel room? You don't need to drive to your destination at 55mph getting crappy mpg. You can actually enjoy the drive down & not hold anyone up in the process!

You don't have to make your bed, empty your own shite, cook your own dinner, clean up after your self.

Save yourself a bunch of cash too 

we dont all get paid lots of cash for sitting around watching telly and eating ice creams

Exactly why you should use hotels, lot cheaper than a burger van 

[hercules]

radical thought this, but what about a hotel room? You don't need to drive to your destination at 55mph getting crappy mpg. You can actually enjoy the drive down & not hold anyone up in the process!

You don't have to make your bed, empty your own shite, cook your own dinner, clean up after your self.

Save yourself a bunch of cash too 

we dont all get paid lots of cash for sitting around watching telly and eating ice creams

Exactly why you should use hotels, lot cheaper than a burger van 

average night stay in hotel lets say £50.you can get a site for £10 a night with leccy and shower if you shop around and you still have to drive there be it with a van on the back or going to the hotel so the petrol more than favors in the cost of taking your own home rather than paying for a hotel and if it comes to kipping in a tent or having a proper bed and a toilet and a fridge and warm water and a shower and a kettle and a toaster and a oven and a grill and lights and a wardrobe and storage space and bbq and gas fire and leccy fire and music and telly and dvds and satellite telly and digital telly and the list goes on....rest my case

[Amigo]

ALL THE ABOVE.

& you don't have to put it up when you get there or take it down when you leave!

[tunnie]

radical thought this, but what about a hotel room? You don't need to drive to your destination at 55mph getting crappy mpg. You can actually enjoy the drive down & not hold anyone up in the process!

You don't have to make your bed, empty your own shite, cook your own dinner, clean up after your self.

Save yourself a bunch of cash too 

we dont all get paid lots of cash for sitting around watching telly and eating ice creams

Exactly why you should use hotels, lot cheaper than a burger van 

average night stay in hotel lets say £50.you can get a site for £10 a night with leccy and shower if you shop around and you still have to drive there be it with a van on the back or going to the hotel so the petrol more than favors in the cost of taking your own home rather than paying for a hotel and if it comes to kipping in a tent or having a proper bed and a toilet and a fridge and warm water and a shower and a kettle and a toaster and a oven and a grill and lights and a wardrobe and storage space and bbq and gas fire and leccy fire and music and telly and dvds and satellite telly and digital telly and the list goes on....rest my case

There in you sink your own case....you have so much costs up front...

Van Purchase? Anything from a grand to 20 grand. Buying security bolt ones, wheel locks ect, going to wash it, check on it every few months. I don't check my hotel rooms are ok few weeks later

Depreciation, who knows? Least few hundred a year!
Site fees £80 for a week?
Storage? £300 a year? Is it near you, suspect you have to drive at least half our to get to where ever you keep it

Insurance? £200?

Maintenance / Tyres / Service - £150?

So before you take the damn thing anywhere you will have spend a nights worth of accommodation minimum, easily two!

Fuel 50% worse consumption. London to Lakes, your looking at spending £120 odd in fuel, assuming 15mpg, compared to £60 at 30mpg, so again, another night there.

Sorry but dragging a plastic box at snails pace, then sitting on plastic furniture, getting your own water, emptying your own poo is not my idea of a holiday!

I had a week in Portugal, Camping trip to Cornwall & week on the Isle of Man on my motorbike, for less than the running costs of a Van, before you've even taken it anywhere!

[Auto Addict]

radical thought this, but what about a hotel room? You don't need to drive to your destination at 55mph getting crappy mpg. You can actually enjoy the drive down & not hold anyone up in the process!

You don't have to make your bed, empty your own shite, cook your own dinner, clean up after your self.

Save yourself a bunch of cash too 

we dont all get paid lots of cash for sitting around watching telly and eating ice creams

Exactly why you should use hotels, lot cheaper than a burger van 

average night stay in hotel lets say £50.you can get a site for £10 a night with leccy and shower if you shop around and you still have to drive there be it with a van on the back or going to the hotel so the petrol more than favors in the cost of taking your own home rather than paying for a hotel and if it comes to kipping in a tent or having a proper bed and a toilet and a fridge and warm water and a shower and a kettle and a toaster and a oven and a grill and lights and a wardrobe and storage space and bbq and gas fire and leccy fire and music and telly and dvds and satellite telly and digital telly and the list goes on....rest my case

There in you sink your own case....you have so much costs up front...

Van Purchase? Anything from a grand to 20 grand. Buying security bolt ones, wheel locks ect, going to wash it, check on it every few months. I don't check my hotel rooms are ok few weeks later

Depreciation, who knows? Least few hundred a year!
Site fees £80 for a week?
Storage? £300 a year? Is it near you, suspect you have to drive at least half our to get to where ever you keep it

Insurance? £200?

Maintenance / Tyres / Service - £150?

So before you take the damn thing anywhere you will have spend a nights worth of accommodation minimum, easily two!

Fuel 50% worse consumption. London to Lakes, your looking at spending £120 odd in fuel, assuming 15mpg, compared to £60 at 30mpg, so again, another night there.

Sorry but dragging a plastic box at snails pace, then sitting on plastic furniture, getting your own water, emptying your own poo is not my idea of a holiday!

I had a week in Portugal, Camping trip to Cornwall & week on the Isle of Man on my motorbike, for less than the running costs of a Van, before you've even taken it anywhere!

I wondered when he'd get around to tent camping

[Entwood]

Given the fact that we have spent 48 nights in our van so far this year, and will probably do another 20 odd, covering events from a medieval weekend (Tewkesbury), bank holidays scarecrow festival (Urchfont), motor racing (Castle Coombe), Overseas holiday (France) I'll guess that "hotel" costs would rack up to a fair amount. However, 'vanning is something we enjoy, and it allows me to attend functions , meet with friends and have a drink without fear of driving .... hotels would not give me the same freedom unless ALL my friends were in the same hotel ... a highly unlikely scenario.

At least I can enjoy a roast dinner sat at a table and not rely on some pre-prepared re-heated muck in a plastic sachet ....  ( I refer the honourable gentleman to his own photos of some while back .....)

Knock caravans as much as you want .. bothers us not .. we've heard it all before ... but just be aware that we actually put a large amount of money into tourism when we spend locally whilst visiting.

[Auto Addict]

Given the fact that we have spent 48 nights in our van so far this year, and will probably do another 20 odd, covering events from a medieval weekend (Tewkesbury), bank holidays scarecrow festival (Urchfont), motor racing (Castle Coombe), Overseas holiday (France) I'll guess that "hotel" costs would rack up to a fair amount. However, 'vanning is something we enjoy, and it allows me to attend functions , meet with friends and have a drink without fear of driving .... hotels would not give me the same freedom unless ALL my friends were in the same hotel ... a highly unlikely scenario.

At least I can enjoy a roast dinner sat at a table and not rely on some pre-prepared re-heated muck in a plastic sachet ....  ( I refer the honourable gentleman to his own photos of some while back .....)

Knock caravans as much as you want .. bothers us not .. we've heard it all before ... but just be aware that we actually put a large amount of money into tourism when we spend locally whilst visiting.

 

[johnnygo]

What's wrong with a full sized one, been towing one for the best part of forty years not turned one over yet
     Before I had a van had a trailer tent, not fancy as that   the big problem was keeping the joints water tight, the more they are used, the more difficult it is 8-)

I would have thought that was the main danger with these type of caravans, leaking. Nice idea though

[tunnie]

Given the fact that we have spent 48 nights in our van so far this year, and will probably do another 20 odd, covering events from a medieval weekend (Tewkesbury), bank holidays scarecrow festival (Urchfont), motor racing (Castle Coombe), Overseas holiday (France) I'll guess that "hotel" costs would rack up to a fair amount. However, 'vanning is something we enjoy, and it allows me to attend functions , meet with friends and have a drink without fear of driving .... hotels would not give me the same freedom unless ALL my friends were in the same hotel ... a highly unlikely scenario.

At least I can enjoy a roast dinner sat at a table and not rely on some pre-prepared re-heated muck in a plastic sachet ....  ( I refer the honourable gentleman to his own photos of some while back .....)

Knock caravans as much as you want .. bothers us not .. we've heard it all before ... but just be aware that we actually put a large amount of money into tourism when we spend locally whilst visiting.

 

If I wanted a Roast Dinner, plenty of pubs around for that. Don't need to cook it either 

[Lazydocker]

Caravanning is a matter of personal preference. Personally I prefer it to camping but it's not worked out the way we planned, so the van will be sold in the not too distant future. It will be replaced with a large, good quality tent and associated equipment, again quality.

In reality to get an equivalent, comparable setup in camping gear there is a significant cost involved... Much more than I paid for my caravan

I tend to travel overnight with the van, with a bed that is readily available if I want to stop for a kip "en route"

As Entwood says, if you use it a lot a caravan is considerably cheaper than hotels. For the odd weekend it's not.

Each to their own... The world would be most boring if we were all the same

To the OP... I'm always dubious about folding vans. The cannot possibly be as dry and convenient as a proper one and, TBH, full size vans are perfectly safe to tow if you do it correctly

[the alarming man]

radical thought this, but what about a hotel room? You don't need to drive to your destination at 55mph getting crappy mpg. You can actually enjoy the drive down & not hold anyone up in the process!

You don't have to make your bed, empty your own shite, cook your own dinner, clean up after your self.

Save yourself a bunch of cash too 

we dont all get paid lots of cash for sitting around watching telly and eating ice creams

Exactly why you should use hotels, lot cheaper than a burger van 

average night stay in hotel lets say £50.you can get a site for £10 a night with leccy and shower if you shop around and you still have to drive there be it with a van on the back or going to the hotel so the petrol more than favors in the cost of taking your own home rather than paying for a hotel and if it comes to kipping in a tent or having a proper bed and a toilet and a fridge and warm water and a shower and a kettle and a toaster and a oven and a grill and lights and a wardrobe and storage space and bbq and gas fire and leccy fire and music and telly and dvds and satellite telly and digital telly and the list goes on....rest my case

There in you sink your own case....you have so much costs up front...

Van Purchase? Anything from a grand to 20 grand. Buying security bolt ones, wheel locks ect, going to wash it, check on it every few months. I don't check my hotel rooms are ok few weeks later

Depreciation, who knows? Least few hundred a year!
Site fees £80 for a week?
Storage? £300 a year? Is it near you, suspect you have to drive at least half our to get to where ever you keep it

Insurance? £200?

Maintenance / Tyres / Service - £150?

So before you take the damn thing anywhere you will have spend a nights worth of accommodation minimum, easily two!

Fuel 50% worse consumption. London to Lakes, your looking at spending £120 odd in fuel, assuming 15mpg, compared to £60 at 30mpg, so again, another night there.

Sorry but dragging a plastic box at snails pace, then sitting on plastic furniture, getting your own water, emptying your own poo is not my idea of a holiday!

I had a week in Portugal, Camping trip to Cornwall & week on the Isle of Man on my motorbike, for less than the running costs of a Van, before you've even taken it anywhere!

you have forgoton something tunnie.. as welll where do you store the damn thing when not using it as if you are storing on your front drive you are advertising the fact that you are on holiday when its gone....therefore inviting all the little scroats in...

[tunnie]

Yup very true 

You then have to go and drive to said storage to pick it up, check it over every so often so more costs there.

Also if you buy a "decent" one with all the A/C, Dish, ect I doubt most people would buy outright, so you have deprecation + interest on a loan.

I can see it working for Entwood, 40 odd nights so far, thats going to work well 

But if your average joe, taking holidays maybe 2 or 3 a year for a week at a time, I can't see it working.

[the alarming man]

i guess it is horses for courses