How many members only tour UK ? Survey

[PaddyM]

You really need to make up your mind. You have your experience listed as "newbie".

Going to bed now MOTD has just finished.

I have no idea what you are quoting , experience newbie ?????? , good night and I hope you don’t wake up with too bad a hangover

 

[Minxy]

Strewth, I feel like I've just stumbled into the kiddies playpen!

 

[PaddyM]

Strewth, I feel like I've just stumbled into the kiddies playpen!

At least there are only soft toys in here Minxy

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

 

[Landy Andy]

If there are no services for motorhomes in the UK what have I been using for the last 15 years in my motorhome in the UK ?
Think before you post is my advice.

You’ve been paying. And most of the time paying for a compromised service that is more designed for caravans than motorhomes. In France for example, you get free places to stay, free services, free motorhome parking bays, plus other options that you pay for, but rarely do you pay anymore than anything else for being in a motorhome. In the UK you get very little if anything for motorhomes, and they tend to charge you a premium for it.
I don’t need or appreciate your advice.

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[wp1234]

You’ve been paying. And most of the time paying for a compromised service that is more designed for caravans than motorhomes. In France for example, you get free places to stay, free services, free motorhome parking bays, plus other options that you pay for, but rarely do you pay anymore than anything else for being in a motorhome. In the UK you get very little if anything for motorhomes, and they tend to charge you a premium for it.
I don’t need or appreciate your advice.

Well said

 

[Janine]

Not so much a survey - this has turned into a willy-waving contest!

What has happened to respecting the views of others?

Thank goodness we are all different!

 

[Minxy]

Children ... Behave or you'll end up on the naughty step!

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

Not so much a survey - this has turned into a willy-waving contest!

Don’t panic mine is still caged up

 

[kevenh]

I have no idea what you are quoting , experience newbie ?????? , good night and I hope you don’t wake up with too bad a hangover

It’s your MHF profile that’s the source of the experience level

yy

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[Jim]

The UK doesn’t want motorhomes, or provide services for them.

You were using a superb UK service for them when you posted that dodgy statement!

Your statement has too much blanket. Fact. there are more CLs in this country than their are Aires in France. I know the network is very different, but it's there and growing fast. I was talking to a French motorhomer recently who was raving about our THS's.

CAMpRA and MotorhomeFun have been creating around 100 stopovers a year. CAMpRA at our suggestion and with our help; have just got their own exempting rights in Scotland, with England, Wales and NI to follow shortly. These guys are very pro-active so these numbers will only increase.

More councils than ever are providing services for motorhomes, this is only going to snowball as councils are seeing the benefits and sharing the good news with other councils.

To say the UK doesn't want them or provide services for them is way off the reality.

 

[dawsey]

Who in their right mind want's to restrict themselves to Motor homing in the UK. No Aires, Campsite prices through the roof, height barrier restrictions on most if not all costal car parks. Anti motorhome brigade everywhere. Terrible roads, over congested and riddled with pot holes. Wilding, virtually impossible and the only place remaining is overpriced campsite's (God help you if your pitched incorrectly by an inch or two, Jobsworth will be ready to castrate you). Europe and beyond has it all ! One only has to venture into Europe once in their motorhome to realise that the UK is still in the dark ages when it comes to how they regard Motorhomes and their user's. A bit of a useless poll IMO.

I couldn’t agree more. Those who stay in UK are seriously missing out. Nearly every country in Europe is better to be using and enjoying a camper, and the nearest and easiest to get to neighbour, France, is near the top of the pile.

After 6 motorhomes and having extensively toured both UK and every country in Europe, inc eastern Europe in campers over 30years, we sadly decided we wouldn’t bother anymore with the UK. My favourite place was Cairngorm and the west Highlands. I went there every year all through the 1990s, back then you could camp on the white sand beaches of Arisaig, enroute to sky on the road to the isles, all pre harry potter. Pure magic.

But that was then. we sought out LHD when we bought our latest 5 yrs ago as no intent, for all the reasons stated above and more, to go anywhere in the UK in a camper ever again. The only UK miles it ever did was from our house in Kent to the Eurotunnel terminal, avoiding pot holes and looking sadly at the rubbish-strewn verges of our once lovely Island.

I’ve been doing the camper thing since I was 20, my wife is foreign, and I have lived and worked overseas, once for fun I drove a 4x4 from Singapore to the forests of Laos, so I’m lucky to have no concerns about ‘foreign places’.

I would suspect it may just be a confidence thing, as Jim was alluding to. As we get a little older our confidence and adventurousness does decrease a bit, add to that the stress of coping with a big unwieldy vehicle, going a place where you don’t speak the language, being far from home and to top it all, having to drive the big unwieldy thing on the wrong side of the roads. I see how that may be daunting, particularly if coming to the pastime later in life.

Fact is, there is nothing at all to be worried about, worst that can happen, and still happens to me is that you exit some campsite in a remote area when it’s quiet and default to driving on the left. I still use a reminder, taped to the screen for the 1st 2 weeks every time I travel.

If you joined ‘fun’ to have some fun, I for one highly recommend setting aside any concerns and giving the foreign thing a go. You never know what you’re missing until you try

 

[Folkranger]

Strewth, I feel like I've just stumbled into the kiddies playpen!

Me too

 

[Folkranger]

You were using a superb UK service for them when you posted that dodgy statement!

Your statement has too much blanket. Fact. there are more CLs in this country than their are Aires in France. I know the network is very different, but it's there and growing fast. I was talking to a French motorhomer recently who was raving about our THS's.

CAMpRA and MotorhomeFun have been creating around 100 stopovers a year. CAMpRA at our suggestion and with our help; have just got their own exempting rights in Scotland, with England, Wales and NI to follow shortly. These guys are very pro-active so these numbers will only increase.

More councils than ever are providing services for motorhomes, this is only going to snowball as councils are seeing the benefits and sharing the good news with other councils.

To say the UK doesn't want them or provide services for them is way off the reality.

Much as I appreciate this forum Jim and your balance as our moderator. I have to say that, with the exception of Scotland, I have found motorhoming without a fixed plan in the UK is an absolute nightmare whereas freedom to roam motorhoming in any part of the EU is a breeze.

 

[Jim]

Much as I appreciate this forum Jim and your balance as our moderator. I have to say that, with the exception of Scotland, I have found motorhoming without a fixed plan in the UK is an absolute nightmare whereas freedom to roam motorhoming in any part of the EU is a breeze.

I've no idea why you had to qualify your opinion with that first sentence. But thanks anyway

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[hja]

for what?

Health, breakdown of van

 

[Langtoftlad]

I have found motorhoming without a fixed plan in the UK is an absolute nightmare

Some of us like a plan .

Plans can be detailed or vague - when you get up in the morning and decide where you're going, that is a plan. Plans can be followed meticulously or changed on a whim.

I don't use my MH as a leisure activity in of itself - but as a means to go to, and stay where I want to visit.
I don't want to stop in a layby, or an industrial estate just because it's free.

 

[eddie]

Why do people that hate this Country so much want to try to prove their point!

Surely just bugger off and sit with a smug face somewhere in France rather than just digging holes, making stupid statements trying to prove to the rest of us (AKA The Majority) that their not idiots?

Obviously no one on here, but the Facebook and Twitter idiots

 

[Folkranger]

Some of us like a plan .

Plans can be detailed or vague - when you get up in the morning and decide where you're going, that is a plan. Plans can be followed meticulously or changed on a whim.

I don't use my MH as a leisure activity in of itself - but as a means to go to, and stay where I want to visit.
I don't want to stop in a layby, or an industrial estate just because it's free.

That's why it's a free country, so that people can choose what to do and how. Me, I've spent my working life planning and working to deadlines and schedules so I choose to spend my leisure time without a schedule of when and where and, no, I don't wear a watch any more.

I've found that some of the best things in life are the things that occur by accident rather than by planning. I learned early in life to choose some books from the library at random - Same thing.

Despite this I've never stayed in an industrial estate and hate laybys.

 

[Folkranger]

I've no idea why you had to qualify your opinion with that first sentence. But thanks anyway

It's called respect.

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[dorkins]

Who in their right mind want's to restrict themselves to Motor homing in the UK. No Aires, Campsite prices through the roof, height barrier restrictions on most if not all costal car parks. Anti motorhome brigade everywhere. Terrible roads, over congested and riddled with pot holes. Wilding, virtually impossible and the only place remaining is overpriced campsite's (God help you if your pitched incorrectly by an inch or two, Jobsworth will be ready to castrate you). Europe and beyond has it all ! One only has to venture into Europe once in their motorhome to realise that the UK is still in the dark ages when it comes to how they regard Motorhomes and their user's. A bit of a useless poll IMO.

Personally I have to object to being considered as "not in my right mind" I have read the whole thread but currently I have to restrict myself to the UK and I do not have to explain why, part of my working life involved driving trucks in Europe for some years (up to 16m vehicle) so driving a 7m mh does not faze me, so please do not assume that those of us who are enjoying the UK for whatever reason are somewhat mentally challenged!

 

[PhilandMena]

Personally I have to object to being considered as "not in my right mind" I have read the whole thread but currently I have to restrict myself to the UK and I do not have to explain why, part of my working life involved driving trucks in Europe for some years (up to 16m vehicle) so driving a 7m mh does not faze me, so please do not assume that those of us who are enjoying the UK for whatever reason are somewhat mentally challenged!

Wotever!

 

[StephandJohn]

Had to say yes sadly. Due to health problems making health insurance impossible we wont' nbe able to go abroad for another three years. Had to do the last two years . Can't find the crying emoji so this will have to do

 

[StephandJohn]

Oh dear. Had to do something else and left on page 2. Thought I'd skip to page 8 when I got back and what did I find? A lot of cross people!

 

[Jammi]

Blimey people! What a thing to get your knickers in a twist about!
People are different and have different likes and dislikes. Doesn’t make either side wrong.

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[PhilandMena]

Would this be the appropriate juncture to raise the advantages for FLT's in Europe and beyond as apposed to the UK.

 

[StephandJohn]

Yes. Definitely. We full timed for three years and anywhere in Europe was generally easier . Often because of the weather as well as many more campsites. aires etc.