My Caravan Year 2017
Now that the festive season is over I've found time to do a review of our trips in 2017.
We spent 261 nights in our caravan, with 54 separate visits. These were at 46 CL, 5 of which we visited twice and 18 were new to us this year, 5 visits to commercial sites, 2 were new and 2 of which we visited twice, and 3 CC site all of which we'd used in the past. The best site for faclities, as far as we were concerned was Rosedale Caravan Park, and the best CLs for facilities & value were Woody Kiln and Pardon Hill, both newish ones. Our average cost per night was £12:30.
Anybody else have their own stats for 2017?
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Well we had a bit of a curtailed year as MiL had a knee replaced wnich curtailed our going away for a while.
Nevertheless we managed exactly 100 nights away. These were mostly on CLs (9), Independent sites(2, one of which was twice) and 3 CMC sites.
I agree with you that Rosedale was great value for money and exemplary for such a small private site, although a few members wouldn't believe it existed.
We enjoyed all bar one of the CLs.
Didn't keep a check on prices but consider we obtained good value for our money.
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Good opportunity for you to write something in the Story Section?
David
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We went In April to the Salt Lake City KOA spent 6 nits for general conference the caravan was a nice bace camp for the LDS general conference it was close to the UTA Trax stop so we can rid the tram up to the down town and the first week in June we went to Jackson Hole WY in October we wen to the Salt Lake City KOA and in November we putt the van in winter layup and began the inproovment and up grads to the van now planning for some 2018 trips
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We usually average 100 nights away in a year but in 2017 we exceeded this spending 149 nights away at an average cost of £15.08 which also includes the cost of any subsciptions.
Sites No Nights
CMC 19
Continental 63
Commercial 36
CL 19
C&CC 9
CS 3peedee
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nellie, im assuming that, of these 54 seperate visits, often a trip consisted of several visits?
otherwise, your average trip was around five days with a 'visit' every week....ie a pain to keep doing the mileage to come home (and assosiated unloading/storing/collecting/loading etc) and then take off again.
as it it, your figues read that you moght be flittting back and forth each week but i doubt thats true, a useful stat would be 'how many trips' and 'average duration'.
good effort though
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I feel a bit of a lightweight, having only done 45 nights at an average of £13.16. If I add in trip to Spanish apartment and the recent cruise, I've totalled 71 nights on holiday. In my defence, I had to cancel one trip due to electrical issues and the changeover to the MH impinged on the figures. To be honest, it would still have only been in double figures though. As Corners would write on my homework " must do better".
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six weeks in Spain in Feb and March, another nine weeks in France and Spain end Aug to early Oct and many places in the uk in between.
As we got the van in mid Jan i can easily see that we have toured just over 7000 miles in 2017.....
2018?......who knows...
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One night on a Club site and about 35 nights in France and Italy. About average for us, however, we have also been to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Madeira this year (hotels) so have been away a lot.
2018 we will be cruising the Caribbean for two weeks then another trip to Australia but hope to spend about 5 weeks in France and Italy again with the Motorhome.
They call it SKIing; Spending the Kids Inheritance.
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BB it was 5/6 trips in total....ending one X-mas trip(2 1/2 wks) and starting another(4 wks), plus 4 others of approx 7 wks, 9 wks, 5 1/2 & 9 wks. So I guess it's an average of about 7 wks per trip.
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great effort, i guessed that was more like it....twas the 54 visits that just sounded a bit odd...happy vanning for 2018
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Without the van for nearly 3 months whilst being repaired but still managed just over 100 nights away, 3 weeks Baltic/Holland, 3 weeks Wales, 3 Weeks Lakes and Scotland, 1 week Germany, lots of long weekends in East Anglia. Our van diary shows where, when and number of nights but don't bother with costs
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Don't keep stats (life is too short
) of our holidays, but looking back we have spent approximately 50 nights away, give or take a few. Not a huge amount, work gets in the way, 
Mix of club sites and cl's, have no idea of costs.
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We've had a total of 180 days away from home in 2017. A combination of 2 trips abroad, a week in a cottage in the lakes and trips away in our tourer or down in our static van in Cornwall. No idea of costs though - think it might be a bit scary to try to work them out!
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You are an inspiration Nellie!
We had a shocking year last year, mainly due to my OH's serious illness, and losing my Dad, but we still managed around 6 different tours out, including just over two weeks in Wales. We had to cancel two tours we had booked in December, due to OH finishing the year back in hospital, but hopefully, this year we can do better. Still looking after Mum, but if all else fails, I will book a cottage and take her with us! Happy touring to everyone!1 -
Hope that OH's problems are over and you manage many more trips away in 2018.
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