To consider buying a caravan?

[Schoolhelp23]

Anyone have any experience? Waste of money, best thing you ever did?

Static or touring?

Static on a site- absolute sink hole that you will never get the money back for. Resale rates are horrendous and you often have to move off the site within 10 years.Site rent is often extortionate.

tourer- slightly better if that’s your bag in life. Retains the value better if well maintained but it’s just a box on wheels that you can sleep in and need a decent car to tow.

either is good if you know exactly what you are trying to get into. My gayest memories are in a static as a child but that was ancient and on a very basic site.

Static, on a site with lots of facilities. Torn between great memories for the kids, and not wanting to waste money!

We have a tourer. We love it… I wouldn’t consider the costs and commitment involve with a static . Depends on your situation and how much you might use it…

Statics are money pits and depreciate massively. Plus they compel you to have the same holiday time after time.

Tourers hold their value well and allow for variety.

I've had a camper van before and the kids loved it, it's wasn't for me but we sold it after 5 years for what we bought it for.

Friend of mine.

£60k cost

site fees £75000

£135,000 is a lot of dough for memories.

If you can afford it then fine but if you don’t like pissing money away then not so good.

They almost felt compelled to go every weekend which the kids didn’t want to do once they got to Teen years.

You can holiday so cheaply at haven and parkdean I don't really know why you'd bother. Just book something last minute if it's a nice weekend with a few regular trips throughout the year.

Are you on FB? If so, please please join Holiday Park Action Group & have a little read before you buy.

It’s an entirely unregulated business full of sharks.

Never buy a static, just rent a caravan each time - will be substantially cheaper per year (just on the annual fees) and non of the depreciation.

I have a tourer and love it. No way would I get a static. I know someone who had one, wanted to sell it and the park basically made it impossible to sell privately and had them over a barrel to sell it back to them at about 30% of the price they’d paid a few years before.

Tourer on a seasonal site is likely to be a better option.
we bought a tourer last year and we travel
with it at the moment. We enjoy seeing all
the different places, but seasonal sites ceramic have their benefits.

We have a static.
It is expensive.
our ground rent is £4.5k.
We use it most weekends and have regular longer breaks there. My parents use it as do my kids and their partners.
we can afford it and still afford holidays abroad.
We didn’t buy it to make money , we know it will depreciate it we enjoy where the location is and what it adds to our lives.

Buy a small, easy to tow caravan and add an awning. You can always pay for a seasonal pitch (ie for several months) then move it to somewhere new. Far better and much cheaper than a static.

I'd love one of these!
www.go-barefoot.co.uk/

@SherlockHolmes Ive been inside one of those - they’re tiny. It’s just a divorce on wheels!!

Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?

Do not buy a static as others have said. It’s such a swizz! Costs a fortune to get out of the contract and you have to pay for a new one every ten years or whatever. Such a scam. Just hire one on a nice site or get a touring caravan/ motor home and visit lots of lovely 5 star sites with lots to do.

Please don’t buy a static you will live to regret it. We have a tourer and it’s the best thing we’ve ever done and making lovely memories. We do a store and stay so we pay £560 a year to store it at a site in Somerset then we just pay the nightly fees to stay there, they pull the caravan out for us, and we drive down and stay for however many nights we choose to, the site is lovely and the wider area has so much to do there so we haven’t actually taken it anywhere else yet as we are just exploring that area for now but next year we’ll take it to Cornwall. We’ve just been for a week and can’t wait to get back already, best thing we’ve ever done and wish we had done it sooner.

My dh is on that group and often reads out the horror stories on there, those poor people

We’ve had 3 in our family and all lost a lot of money . They used to be a great way to make memories . My Auntie had 1 by the river for 30 years and spent every weekend and holiday down there , whole of the 6 weeks holidays and that was their second home but the site fees now are going up and up and up . And it’s everything else that comes with it . The gas bottles , the insurance , gas checks . Electric bills . Most things you can’t buy cheaper direct , sites make you go thru them so everything is more expensive . One of ours charged you £10 to use the hosepipe ! The costs just spiralled . Then if anything happens they give you pennies back for the caravan if anything at all. Then they sell it on days/weeks later for thousands . It’s all such a con .
I would love another one , but wouldn’t do the static again . Would buy a tourer and site it .

Still bigger than a campervan!