Motor home help.

Thehooperman

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Regarding a 5 star pitch, we are looking for something lovely with immaculately kept grounds, exceptionally clean toilets and showers and serviced pitches.
That one looks nice and handy for the pubs

Henstent fits that criteria and has plenty of nice walks/cycling around the village as well as being a good base for visiting Snowdonia, seaside, Pistyll Rhaeadr and Rhiwagar waterfalls, lake Vyrnwy and Bala lake, etc.

If you go at any time let me know and I'll send you details of what's in the area.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Wow, so many helpful replies, thank you everyone.


It’s got reversing cameras. Husband has been watching Bob Earnshaw on you tube who goes through everything for beginners. So on his advice husband is going to buy levelling ramps.




We’ve booked near Shrewsbury for our first outing but at some point in the future when husband has retired we intend to drive through France and Spain to Costa Del Sol so we’re going to have to get used to long journeys!

What is a shakedown visit?

I’m not on Facebook but we have joined The Caravan and Motorhome Club.
Some very helpful tips you given me, thank you!




Regarding a 5 star pitch, we are looking for something lovely with immaculately kept grounds, exceptionally clean toilets and showers and serviced pitches.
That one looks nice and handy for the pubs!


Thank you! Yes after getting a good deal buying the Motorhome were now realising that’s just the start of it! Bedding, kitchen equipment etc and all the other bits and bobs. Mind you we’ve barely spent a penny over the last 3 months.
It’s got built in window fly/bug screens that slide down.

I would have forgotten to pack a mini hoover so thanks for that.


Does anyone give their motor home/ camper vans names?
Ours was built in Grimsby so we’re calling it Kevin (you have to watch Strictly to understand the connection)


So first trip booked for 10th July, 3 nights here.

https://www.morris-leisure.co.uk/caravan-parks/oxon-hall-shrewsbury.htm

It’s exciting!!
A shakedown visit is like a practice run of doing everything you would do when setting of and parking up somewhere. Basically just to getting into the habit of what to do and how to do it all and if you cock it up your not far from home and only there for a night anyway to save embarrassment. You'll be amazed what you didn't realise you need until you do it for the first time.

If you're going to be touring all those countries I hope you've got a decent climate control system that works on the hookup.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
A shakedown visit is like a practice run of doing everything you would do when setting of and parking up somewhere. Basically just to getting into the habit of what to do and how to do it all and if you cock it up your not far from home and only there for a night anyway to save embarrassment. You'll be amazed what you didn't realise you need until you do it for the first time.
Simply spending a couple of nights in it on the drive - without going into the house - will reveal a few things.
 

PeterD

ST16 Represent.
Wow, so many helpful replies, thank you everyone.


It’s got reversing cameras. Husband has been watching Bob Earnshaw on you tube who goes through everything for beginners. So on his advice husband is going to buy levelling ramps.




We’ve booked near Shrewsbury for our first outing but at some point in the future when husband has retired we intend to drive through France and Spain to Costa Del Sol so we’re going to have to get used to long journeys!

What is a shakedown visit?

I’m not on Facebook but we have joined The Caravan and Motorhome Club.
Some very helpful tips you given me, thank you!




Regarding a 5 star pitch, we are looking for something lovely with immaculately kept grounds, exceptionally clean toilets and showers and serviced pitches.
That one looks nice and handy for the pubs!


Thank you! Yes after getting a good deal buying the Motorhome were now realising that’s just the start of it! Bedding, kitchen equipment etc and all the other bits and bobs. Mind you we’ve barely spent a penny over the last 3 months.
It’s got built in window fly/bug screens that slide down.

I would have forgotten to pack a mini hoover so thanks for that.


Does anyone give their motor home/ camper vans names?
Ours was built in Grimsby so we’re calling it Kevin (you have to watch Strictly to understand the connection)


So first trip booked for 10th July, 3 nights here.

https://www.morris-leisure.co.uk/caravan-parks/oxon-hall-shrewsbury.htm

It’s exciting!!

Dolly, its predecessor was Loretta.
 

Carole

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My parents usual spend a few months each winter in Spain and Portugal. They get the ferry to Santander but on the way home meander back through France...

Yes that’s the plan, although husband not retiring for a few years yet so I’m getting ahead of myself.
Go September/October or April/May time then really make the journey part of the holiday.
Stop off at little towns and villages, stay a few nights and move on.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Yes that’s the plan, although husband not retiring for a few years yet so I’m getting ahead of myself.
Go September/October or April/May time then really make the journey part of the holiday.
Stop off at little towns and villages, stay a few nights and move on.
That's something we really ought to try in ours sometime but it's primarily for business use and motorsports spectating use.
 

staffordjas

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Yes that’s the plan, although husband not retiring for a few years yet so I’m getting ahead of myself.
Go September/October or April/May time then really make the journey part of the holiday.
Stop off at little towns and villages, stay a few nights and move on.
My dad was a school teacher, so each summer we used to spend a week camping through France doing about 200 miles a day , 4 weeks in a spanish campsite, then a week travelling back. (That was in/on a motor bike and side car though with frame tent, all the camping gear and 4 of us crammed in )....great adventure stopping off at different little towns and villages en-route and meeting the local folk. (Even camped in a farmers barn and treated to breakfast in the farmhouse when the bike broke down one night ). Going off the beaten track most of the locals didn't speak english at the time, so it was down to me to put my schoolgirl french into practice to get us by. Great fun and a great experience!
Looks like you have some great adventures to come @Carole :)
 

BobClay

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A tip for motorhomers garnered from experience:

In the 1970's four of us went north to Scotland in a converted Ford Transit caravette. We spent some time doing the Black Cuillins on Skye and on the way south decided to drop off at Aviemore to have a crack at the Cairngorms. We parked up in the old Aviemore Centre (all long gone now .. ) and spent a night in the bar there. We overdid it a bit, and upon arriving back in the carpark collapsed into the van.
Early next morning we noticed the van was surrounded by .. shall we say the 'spoor of the intoxicated' :barf: .. that had accumulated during the night, so we moved the van to the other side of the car park to escape the scene of the crime. Alas what we hadn't envisaged was that the move caused the tyres to move through the mush, and left tracks from the scene of the crime to where we were now parked.

The lesson to be learned ?

Don't leave tracks, it doesn't take Taggart, Rebus or Hamish Macbeth to figure it out. :eek::heyhey::teef:
 

c0tt0nt0p

Well-Known Forumite
Yes that’s the plan, although husband not retiring for a few years yet so I’m getting ahead of myself.
Go September/October or April/May time then really make the journey part of the holiday.
Stop off at little towns and villages, stay a few nights and move on.
Continental Europe have it right with motorhomes allowing people to park to overnight in areas that the UK would either ban or charge an arm and leg for...
 
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