Well after a lifetime of caravanning I have decided to sell the van.
I only used it twice last year and the same the year before, and the year before that so it just doesn't make economic sense. Should I now sign up for the anti caravan lobby or just let common sense prevail.

Once a vanner always a vanner!

You'll be sneaking back when you think no one is watching.

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winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

You are making sense. Put the proceeds of the van sale into a term deposit and holiday in cabins, B&B's, motels etc on the proceeds of the interest you earn. I own a Tourist Park & I can't get over the wally's who are happy to spend half a million on a massive RV and then complain about the costs of an overnight stay on a powered site. They just dont get it. At 5% interest (I currently pay 9% on a business loan), a $300K rig (large 4WD and caravan or motorhome) generates $15K per year or, over a 3 month holiday period, $167 per day. We are the most expensive in town at $27 per day - go figure!
In the meantime, those who still have the $300K RV's are spending all their time lobbying local councils for "free" parking areas whilst burning up in excess of $300 per day on depreciation. It's very clear, USE IT or LOSE IT and if you do use t, enjoy it. It's a lifestyle thing. Twice a year doesn't seem worth it, unless you are doing laps of the UK each trip and it takes 2 months each time! Here in Oz, a lap can take 2 years and you can follow the good weather the whole time.

hmmm, me and the missus are pondering going the other way and getting one?

Will start a new thread and not hijack this one.

Sorry CG

I said at the start of this year if we don't use the caravan more it will have to go, had 20+ days away so far, got another 10 at the end of the month, a fortnight in July and a few weekend booked after

So it looks like it might be staying a little longer  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

jaksbak@freel2 wrote:

You are making sense. Put the proceeds of the van sale into a term deposit and holiday in cabins, B&B's, motels etc on the proceeds of the interest you earn. I own a Tourist Park & I can't get over the wally's who are happy to spend half a million on a massive RV and then complain about the costs of an overnight stay on a powered site. They just dont get it. At 5% interest (I currently pay 9% on a business loan), a $300K rig (large 4WD and caravan or motorhome) generates $15K per year or, over a 3 month holiday period, $167 per day. We are the most expensive in town at $27 per day - go figure!
In the meantime, those who still have the $300K RV's are spending all their time lobbying local councils for "free" parking areas whilst burning up in excess of $300 per day on depreciation. It's very clear, USE IT or LOSE IT and if you do use t, enjoy it. It's a lifestyle thing. Twice a year doesn't seem worth it, unless you are doing laps of the UK each trip and it takes 2 months each time! Here in Oz, a lap can take 2 years and you can follow the good weather the whole time.

npinks wrote:

I said at the start of this year if we don't use the caravan more it will have to go, had 20+ days away so far, got another 10 at the end of the month, a fortnight in July and a few weekend booked after

So it looks like it might be staying a little longer

Here lies the catch with caravaning; don't you find that the fixed annual costs are such that you have no choice but to spend all your holiday time in it to justify those costs?

No not really, though through the winter months when it's stored away and unused due to cold and kids I do think the money could put me on a beach

And there's Not many places you can have 40+ days away for a familiy of 4 for less than a grand Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

But you have paid 10k for a van and 30k for the car, you could go on holiday for two years with that money!

I'm sad - one less target.

landy19840 wrote:

But you have paid 10k for a van and 30k for the car, you could go on holiday for two years with that money!

The car would have been bought anyway so you can't count that and the caravan was £14k

for a 2 week in eygpt it would cost me £3200 I get a few more days away and can still go to Egypt if I wanted Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

I am going to Cuba soon, 2 weeks all inclusive cost me £520 each!

It's nice is Cuba, mozzies the size of sparrows and would have been better if the wife didn't find out she was pregnant 2 days after paying £2000 out for a all inclusive holiday were she could not drink :lol Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis