British caravans

You're absolutely right BB. I just go down to the Newhaven ferry (15 miles from my home) whenever the forecast looks good and the fancy takes me, usually booking only 24  hrs before and just 'head sort of South' finding sites, aires or wild camping as  I go. Never, ever had any difficulty or stress.

Two weeks ago, as an experiment and to revisit childhood holiday places in Dorset I decided to try CC sites for the first time, having previously occasionally used only CLs. What a palaver! Spent about 3 hours trying to book on the website; all CC New Forest sites were full, Hunters Moon Wareham and a couple of other CC sites in the Hants/Dorset/Somerset area were full. I had two nights (a last minute cancellation) at Smedmore (Kimmeridge), two at a virtually empty commercial site just up the road from Hunters Moon. Came home.

And the traffic! In September! Numerous hold-ups on the journey: Chichester, Arundel, Southampton, Poole.....One day I circled Wareham for about an hour trying to park the m/h. I gave up, parked at the Park and Ride at Corfe Castle and took the train to Swanage. I used as much diesel as the return fare of the Newhaven - Dieppe ferry (£125). Never again in U.K.

 

..Promise then one less winge ,that is how this tiny island is but it cannot be that bad or nobody would want to come

An' another thing whilst in 'Meldrew mode'......

I didn't mention the fiver to park in a muddy steep field at Lulworth Cove and the £7.50 for a fresh local crab sandwich which was bulked-up about 30% with Shippams Crab Paste - apparently it's also a traditional Cornish wheeze, whispered to me by my unsurprisingly propsperous pal who has two cafes in Falmouth. No wonder they are 'Made fresh to order' out the back where paste jars can accumulate smugly and out of sight.

It's a CT speciality 

Do german caravans do model with aldi heating and a bathroom which you dont shower over toilet

 In a word yes they do, alright three words

Our Hymer 590GL has Alde heating including underfloor, a fan assisted convector in the door way and a warming draw  

It has a rear bathroom with seperate shower. 

Two of the specific criticisms I had of the Bailey Vigo, which is basically the same layout, were as follows.  Firstly although the shower was nice and big, the 1 piece shower door opened outwards so any water collected on the door is going to run onto the
washroom carpet

Secondly. The convector at the head on the bed is mounted across the hatch.  There is no form of protection, It is inevitable in my opinion that it will get damaged, the fins on this in the 2015 bailey which otherwise was in cosmetically as new condition
were already bent. This fault would stop me from buying this van. 

This is a YouTube clip showing the layout and construction of a
Hymer although it is not the 590 as claimed the washroom is identical

The knaus starclass range doesn't have alde heating but has the truma zone-able central heating. 

Door on uk side, UK spec. Took one of the top places in practical caravans latest awards. 

There is a wider range of models in German caravans than people think. Some quite innovative layouts too. 

Take a look at the NEC if you can 

Write your comments here...Will you be there, Jayess? We've got tickets for Tuesday and will be staying overnight at the caravan club's temporary site on Monday and Tuesday night.

It does not matter how LVs are made  , you buy from outside the UK , and some think they are of a "better" build ,  but they are heavier in comparison, one of the things that the survey does show is people want Lighter vehicles,  so where do the manufacturer
next-generation  LAs  go and still for the UK market put all the latest kit that we all seem  to want

I notice that to try to make their vehicles lighter one manufacturer is experimenting with compressed Balsa Wood, 

There was a Nova two pitches from us it was smaller than our Genoa but the same weight without the "kit",so somthin has to give

The knaus starclass range doesn't have alde heating but has the truma zone-able central heating. 

Door on uk side, UK spec. Took one of the top places in practical caravans latest awards. 

There is a wider range of models in German caravans than people think. Some quite innovative layouts too. 

Take a look at the NEC if you can 

Write your comments here... I admire Knaus, of ALL the european manufacturers they are the only ones who really adapt their designs for the UK market, with Habitation doors on the UK side. Do their motorhomes for sale in the UK have habitation doors on the
correct (nearside) side ? If so, i might be tempted to take a look. Dont tour in Europe, so an offside door is not good for us.